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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.

Sandia Science & Tech Park spurs economic growth

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

A new, independent report has concluded that the Sandia Science & Technology Park contributed significantly to the local economy in 2018-19 by adding 310 jobs and generating increases in economic activity and tax revenue to the city and New Mexico.

Sandia Science & Tech Park spurs economic growth

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

A new, independent report has concluded that the Sandia Science & Technology Park contributed significantly to the local economy in 2018-19 by adding 310 jobs and generating increases in economic activity and tax revenue to the city and New Mexico.

Simulating crash into asteroid reveals its heavy metal psyche

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory

New 2D and 3D computer modeling of impacts on the asteroid Psyche, the largest Main Belt asteroid, indicate it is probably metallic and porous in composition, something like a flying cosmic rubble pile.

Take a guided 'tour' of SuperCam on the new Mars rover

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory

NASA's new Perseverance rover, which just started its seven-month journey to Mars, carries on board what is likely the most versatile instrument ever created to understand the planet's past habitability: SuperCam--and a new podcast will tell listeners all about it.

Helping protect medical professionals

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

A media comprised of a sandwich of materials, tested by Sandia National Laboratories, is being manufactured into N95-like respirators that could be used in local medical facilities. The project originated from the urgent need for personal protective equipment when the COVID-19 outbreak began.

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