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Nathan Moody of Los Alamos National Laboratory to share in 2021 IEEE particle accelerator award

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory

Nathan Moody of Los Alamos National Laboratory is a co-winner of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society (NPSS) 2021 Particle Accelerator Science and Technology (PAST) Award.

Energy tech development for US, NM aim of Sandia and PNM partnership

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

Sandia National Laboratories and New Mexico's largest electricity provider, PNM, have teamed up to bring energy resiliency, security and stability to the state and country. The labs and PNM have signed a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement to collaborate in the fields of energy storage, solar photovoltaics, power electronics, energy conversion systems, economic and life-cycle analyses, artificial intelligence and machine learning, computational simulation and sensor technologies.

Funder: Department of Energy Office of Electricity

What it takes to shoot a laser on Mars

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory

For the better part of a decade, an extraordinary tool aboard NASA's Curiosity rover has been investigating the chemical building blocks of life and making exciting discoveries about Mars' habitability.

What could desert rocks tell us about life on Mars?

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory

The dark, hard coating found on rocks and cliff faces in the desert Southwest could tell us something about life on Mars, explains a new episode of the Mars Technica podcast.

Los Alamos and Sandia national laboratories bridge R&D gap for New Mexico businesses

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory

New Mexico companies seeking to develop new technology products may qualify for technical assistance from the state's two national laboratories.

Life after landing on Mars

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory

When NASA's Perseverance rover lands on Mars in February after its seven-month-long journey, the mission will only just be beginning.

Searching Mars for signatures of life

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory

Today, Mars is an arid, dusty, and frigid landscape with an average temperature of minus 80 degrees Fahrenheit--inhospitable to life as we know it. But it wasn't always that way.

Foiling illicit cryptocurrency mining with artificial intelligence

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Los Alamos National Laboratory computer scientists have developed a new artificial intelligence (AI) system that may be able to identify malicious codes that hijack supercomputers to mine for cryptocurrency such as Bitcoin and Monero.

Journal: IEEE Access

Machine learning unearths signature of slow-slip quake origins in seismic data

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Combing through historical seismic data, researchers using a machine learning model have unearthed distinct statistical features marking the formative stage of slow-slip ruptures in the earth's crust months before tremor or GPS data detected a slip in the tectonic plates.

Journal: Nature Communications

Podcast explains how plutonium powers Mars exploration

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory

To have dependable power to explore the the frigid surface of Mars, NASA's Perseverance rover is equipped with a type of power system called a radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG)--which is what the latest episode of Mars Technica will tell listeners all about.

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