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Newswise: Using AI to develop enhanced cybersecurity measures
Released: 16-Feb-2024 4:05 PM EST
Using AI to develop enhanced cybersecurity measures
Los Alamos National Laboratory

A research team at Los Alamos National Laboratory is using artificial intelligence to address several critical shortcomings in large-scale malware analysis, making significant advancements in the classification of Microsoft Windows malware and paving the way for enhanced cybersecurity measures. Using their approach, the team set a new world record in classifying malware families.

Newswise: Atmospheric pressure changes could be driving Mars’ elusive methane pulses
Released: 24-Jan-2024 10:05 AM EST
Atmospheric pressure changes could be driving Mars’ elusive methane pulses
Los Alamos National Laboratory

New research shows that atmospheric pressure fluctuations that pull gases up from underground could be responsible for releasing subsurface methane into Mars’ atmosphere; knowing when and where to look for methane can help the Curiosity rover search for signs of life.

Newswise: AI breakthrough creates images from nothing
Released: 11-Jan-2024 9:30 AM EST
AI breakthrough creates images from nothing
Los Alamos National Laboratory

A new, potentially revolutionary artificial intelligence framework called “Blackout Diffusion” generates images from a completely empty picture, meaning that the machine-learning algorithm, unlike other generative diffusion models, does not require initiating a “random seed” to get started.

Newswise: First hints of nuclear fission in cosmos revealed by models, observations
Released: 7-Dec-2023 5:05 PM EST
First hints of nuclear fission in cosmos revealed by models, observations
Los Alamos National Laboratory

The elements above iron on the periodic table are thought to be created in cataclysmic explosions like the merger of two neutron stars or in rare classes of supernovae. New research suggests fission may operate in the cosmos during the creation of the heavy elements. Combing through data on a variety of elements that reside in very old stars, researchers have found a potential signature of fission, indicating that nature is likely to produce superheavy nuclei beyond the heaviest elements on the periodic table.

Newswise: 2 labs at Los Alamos National Laboratory get green certifications
Released: 16-Nov-2023 9:05 AM EST
2 labs at Los Alamos National Laboratory get green certifications
Los Alamos National Laboratory

Two labs within Los Alamos National Laboratory have earned recognition for their sustainability-conscious culture: the Chain Lab in Genomics and Bioanalytics and the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT).

Newswise: New open community effort supports open-source, scalable systems management
Released: 14-Nov-2023 12:05 PM EST
New open community effort supports open-source, scalable systems management
Los Alamos National Laboratory

Recognizing the challenges of running sophisticated applications including complex simulations, data analytics, artificial intelligence and heterogenous workflows at scale in hybrid computing environments, multiple institutions are forming an open-source community -- OCHAMI -- to develop and support a framework for better systems management.

Newswise: Today’s Los Alamos employees play Manhattan Project ‘Labbies’ in Christopher Nolan’s ‘Oppenheimer’
Released: 14-Sep-2023 3:05 PM EDT
Today’s Los Alamos employees play Manhattan Project ‘Labbies’ in Christopher Nolan’s ‘Oppenheimer’
Los Alamos National Laboratory

On various sets around New Mexico in 2022, Los Alamos National Laboratory employees talked science and bumped fists with celebrities.

Newswise: Not too big: Machine learning tames huge data sets
Released: 11-Sep-2023 4:00 PM EDT
Not too big: Machine learning tames huge data sets
Los Alamos National Laboratory

A machine-learning algorithm demonstrated the capability to process data that exceeds a computer’s available memory by identifying a massive data set’s key features and dividing them into manageable batches that don’t choke computer hardware. Developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory, the algorithm set a world record for factorizing huge data sets during a test run on Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Summit, the world’s fifth-fastest supercomputer. Equally efficient on laptops and supercomputers, the highly scalable algorithm solves hardware bottlenecks that prevent processing information from data-rich applications in cancer research, satellite imagery, social media networks, national security science and earthquake research, to name just a few.

Newswise: Novel hardware approach offers new quantum-computing paradigm
Released: 15-Aug-2023 11:40 AM EDT
Novel hardware approach offers new quantum-computing paradigm
Los Alamos National Laboratory

A potentially game-changing theoretical approach to quantum computing hardware avoids much of the problematic complexity found in current quantum computers. The strategy implements an algorithm in natural quantum interactions to process a variety of real-world problems faster than classical computers or conventional gate-based quantum computers can.

Newswise: New research points to possible seasonal climate patterns on early Mars
Released: 9-Aug-2023 12:05 PM EDT
New research points to possible seasonal climate patterns on early Mars
Los Alamos National Laboratory

New observations of mud cracks made by the Curiosity Rover show that high-frequency, wet-dry cycling occurred in early Martian surface environments, indicating that the red planet may have once seen seasonal weather patterns or even flash floods.

Newswise: 4 Los Alamos scientists win DOE Early Career Research Awards
Released: 7-Aug-2023 1:30 PM EDT
4 Los Alamos scientists win DOE Early Career Research Awards
Los Alamos National Laboratory

In a banner year for Los Alamos National Laboratory in the competition for Department of Energy Early Career Research Awards, four scientists nabbed multiyear funding for their projects.

Newswise: Climate change drives runoff from Arctic permafrost
Released: 10-Jul-2023 1:05 AM EDT
Climate change drives runoff from Arctic permafrost
Los Alamos National Laboratory

Rising temperatures and changes in precipitation are driving increases to streamflow in areas of high-latitude North America where permafrost dominates the landscape.

Newswise: Simple data gets the most out of quantum machine learning
Released: 5-Jul-2023 10:20 AM EDT
Simple data gets the most out of quantum machine learning
Los Alamos National Laboratory

New theoretical research proves that machine learning on quantum computers requires far simpler data than previously believed. The finding paves a path to maximizing the usability of today’s noisy, intermediate-scale quantum computers for simulating quantum systems and other tasks better than classical digital computers, while also offering promise for optimizing quantum sensors.

Newswise: Breakthrough boosts quantum AI
Released: 26-Jun-2023 11:15 AM EDT
Breakthrough boosts quantum AI
Los Alamos National Laboratory

A groundbreaking theoretical proof shows that a technique called overparametrization enhances performance in quantum machine learning for applications that stymie classical computers.

Newswise: A Tongan volcano plume produced the most intense lightning rates ever detected
Released: 20-Jun-2023 10:15 AM EDT
A Tongan volcano plume produced the most intense lightning rates ever detected
Los Alamos National Laboratory

New research published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters showed that the plume emitted by the Hunga Volcano eruption in 2022 created the highest lightning flash rates ever recorded on Earth, more than any storm ever documented.

Newswise: Research examines key factors related to COVID-19 variant dynamics
Released: 3-May-2023 10:50 AM EDT
Research examines key factors related to COVID-19 variant dynamics
Los Alamos National Laboratory

A team of researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory recently published the most comprehensive study of global COVID-19 variant transitions, which showed significant diversity in variant spread around the globe related to vaccination rates, number of co-circulating variants and immunity from previous infection.

   
Newswise: Qubits put new spin on magnetism: boosting applications of quantum computers
Released: 17-Mar-2023 3:05 PM EDT
Qubits put new spin on magnetism: boosting applications of quantum computers
Los Alamos National Laboratory

Research using a quantum computer as the physical platform for quantum experiments has found a way to design and characterize tailor-made magnetic objects using quantum bits, or qubits. That opens up a new approach to develop new materials and robust quantum computing.

Newswise:Video Embedded scientists-disprove-100-year-old-understanding-of-color-perception
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Released: 16-Mar-2023 5:05 PM EDT
Scientists disprove 100-year-old understanding of color perception
Los Alamos National Laboratory

A new study corrects an important error in the 3D mathematical space developed by the Nobel Prize–winning physicist Erwin Schrödinger and others and used by scientists and industry for more than 100 years to describe how your eye distinguishes one color from another.

Newswise: Understanding plants can boost wildland-fire modeling in uncertain future
Released: 31-Jan-2023 12:05 PM EST
Understanding plants can boost wildland-fire modeling in uncertain future
Los Alamos National Laboratory

A new conceptual framework for incorporating the way plants use carbon and water, or plant dynamics, into fine-scale computer models of wildland fire provides a critical first step toward improved global fire forecasting.

Newswise: What’s driving re-burns across California and the West?
Released: 18-Jan-2023 1:05 PM EST
What’s driving re-burns across California and the West?
Los Alamos National Laboratory

Seasonal temperature, moisture loss from plants and wind speed are what primarily drive fires that sweep across the same landscape multiple times, a new study reveals. These findings and others could help land managers plan more effective treatments in areas susceptible to fire, particularly in the fire-ravaged wildland-urban interfaces of California.

Newswise: Research sheds light on how countries responded to the COVID-19 pandemic
Released: 11-Jan-2023 11:45 AM EST
Research sheds light on how countries responded to the COVID-19 pandemic
Los Alamos National Laboratory

A new paper by a team at Los Alamos National Laboratory is giving researchers new insight into how countries respond to systemic shocks such as the COVID-19 pandemic.

Newswise: Unusual gamma-ray burst reveals previously undetected hybrid neutron-star merger event
5-Dec-2022 4:15 PM EST
Unusual gamma-ray burst reveals previously undetected hybrid neutron-star merger event
Los Alamos National Laboratory

The standard view of gamma-ray bursts as a signature for different types of dying stars might need a rewrite. Recent astronomical observations, supported by theoretical modeling, reveal a new observational fingerprint of neutron-star mergers, which may shed light on the production of heavy elements throughout the universe.

Newswise: AI predicts physics of future fault-slip in laboratory earthquakes
Released: 10-Oct-2022 11:25 AM EDT
AI predicts physics of future fault-slip in laboratory earthquakes
Los Alamos National Laboratory

An artificial-intelligence approach borrowed from natural-language processing — much like language translation and autofill for text on your smart phone — can predict future fault friction and the next failure time with high resolution in laboratory earthquakes,. The technique, applying AI to the fault’s acoustic signals, advances previous work and goes beyond by predicting aspects of the future state of the fault’s physical system.

Newswise: New approach improves identification of natural-gas emitters
4-Oct-2022 4:05 PM EDT
New approach improves identification of natural-gas emitters
Los Alamos National Laboratory

A new study in New Mexico’s San Juan Basin will boost efforts to identify and reduce methane emissions, a key element of the Global Methane Pledge. The research team found that using multiple methods to measure the ratio of ethane to methane in the ambient air around fossil energy development regions can be used to attribute emissions to specific polluters.

Newswise:Video Embedded observations-confirm-model-predictions-of-sea-level-change-from-greenland-melt
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Released: 29-Sep-2022 2:05 PM EDT
Observations confirm model predictions of sea-level change from Greenland melt
Los Alamos National Laboratory

Rising sea levels from melting glaciers and ice sheets pose an increasing threat to coastal communities worldwide. A new analysis of high-resolution satellite observations takes a major step forward in assessing this risk by confirming theoretical predictions and computational models of sea-level changes used to forecast climate-change-driven impacts.

Newswise: New Method for Comparing Neural Networks Exposes How Artificial Intelligence Works
Released: 13-Sep-2022 3:05 PM EDT
New Method for Comparing Neural Networks Exposes How Artificial Intelligence Works
Los Alamos National Laboratory

A team at Los Alamos National Laboratory has developed a novel approach for comparing neural networks that looks within the “black box” of artificial intelligence to help researchers understand neural network behavior. Neural networks recognize patterns in datasets; they are used everywhere in society, in applications such as virtual assistants, facial recognition systems and self-driving cars.

Newswise: Los Alamos-led consortium seeks undocumented orphaned oil and gas wells
Released: 7-Sep-2022 2:05 PM EDT
Los Alamos-led consortium seeks undocumented orphaned oil and gas wells
Los Alamos National Laboratory

Los Alamos National Laboratory is leading a new research consortium funded by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to identify and characterize the nation’s hundreds of thousands of undocumented orphaned wells and determine their full environmental impact with a focus on methane emissions, a potent greenhouse gas.

Newswise: New research sheds light on when Mars may have had water
Released: 25-Aug-2022 2:20 PM EDT
New research sheds light on when Mars may have had water
Los Alamos National Laboratory

Scientists on NASA’s Perseverance mission made a surprising discovery about the composition of rock in Jezero Crater, one that will help them get a better idea of when water existed on Mars, and ultimately, help them understand if the red planet was ever habitable to microbial life.

Newswise: Snow research fills gap in understanding Arctic climate
Released: 17-Aug-2022 4:55 PM EDT
Snow research fills gap in understanding Arctic climate
Los Alamos National Laboratory

Comprehensive data from several seasons of field research in the Alaskan Arctic will address uncertainties in Earth-system and climate-change models about snow cover across the region and its impacts on water and the environment.

Newswise: Quantum annealing can beat classical computing in limited cases
Released: 16-Aug-2022 1:00 PM EDT
Quantum annealing can beat classical computing in limited cases
Los Alamos National Laboratory

Recent research proves that under certain conditions, quantum annealing computers can run algorithms—including the well-known Shor’s algorithm—more quickly than classical computers. In most cases, however, quantum annealing does not provide a speed-up compared to classical computing when time is limited, according to a study in Nature Communications.

Newswise:Video Embedded math-error-a-new-study-overturns-100-year-old-understanding-of-color-perception
VIDEO
Released: 10-Aug-2022 12:05 PM EDT
Math error: A new study overturns 100-year-old understanding of color perception
Los Alamos National Laboratory

A new study corrects an important error in the 3D mathematical space developed by the Nobel Prize–winning physicist Erwin Schrödinger and others and used by scientists and industry for more than 100 years to describe how your eye distinguishes one color from another. The research has the potential to boost scientific data visualizations, improve TVs and recalibrate the textile and paint industries.

Newswise: Los Alamos National Laboratory and SK hynix to demonstrate first-of-a-kind ordered Key-value Store Computational Storage Device
Released: 29-Jul-2022 3:05 PM EDT
Los Alamos National Laboratory and SK hynix to demonstrate first-of-a-kind ordered Key-value Store Computational Storage Device
Los Alamos National Laboratory

At the upcoming Flash Memory Summit in California, Los Alamos National Laboratory and SK hynix, a leading semiconductor innovator and memory/flash manufacturer, will demonstrate the world’s first ordered Key Value Store Computational Storage Device (KV-CSD).

Newswise: Anti-butterfly effect enables new benchmarking of quantum-computer performance
Released: 26-Jul-2022 1:55 PM EDT
Anti-butterfly effect enables new benchmarking of quantum-computer performance
Los Alamos National Laboratory

Research drawing on the quantum “anti-butterfly effect” solves a longstanding experimental problem in physics and establishes a method for benchmarking the performance of quantum computers.

Newswise: Wildfire-smoke observations fill gap in estimating soot’s role in climate change
Released: 21-Jul-2022 5:05 PM EDT
Wildfire-smoke observations fill gap in estimating soot’s role in climate change
Los Alamos National Laboratory

New research refining the amount of sunlight absorbed by black carbon in smoke from wildfires will help clear up a long-time weak spot in earth system models, enabling more accurate forecasting of global climate change.

Newswise: Grid (un)locked: Carbon neutral future depends on updating how we make, move and store electricity
Released: 21-Jul-2022 12:30 PM EDT
Grid (un)locked: Carbon neutral future depends on updating how we make, move and store electricity
Los Alamos National Laboratory

In the push to decarbonize the economy throughout the Intermountain West and beyond, the public conversation often centers on wind and solar energy, electric cars, hydrogen power and carbon capture and storage. The grid—the interconnected power plants, transmission lines and control centers that keep the lights on across the country—is the indispensable enabler of this future carbon-neutral electrified world. Yet the grid is often left out of the discussion. It shouldn’t be.

Released: 6-Jul-2022 8:15 AM EDT
Arctic Temperatures Are Increasing Four Times Faster Than Global Warming
Los Alamos National Laboratory

A new analysis of observed temperatures shows the Arctic is heating up more than four times faster than the rate of global warming. The trend has stepped upward steeply twice in the last 50 years, a finding missed by all but four of 39 climate models.

Newswise: Los Alamos National Laboratory researcher Luis Chacon wins E.O. Lawrence Award
Released: 27-Jun-2022 11:05 AM EDT
Los Alamos National Laboratory researcher Luis Chacon wins E.O. Lawrence Award
Los Alamos National Laboratory

Luis Chacon of Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Applied Mathematics and Plasma Physics group is the winner of the prestigious Ernest Orlando Lawrence award for 2021.

Newswise: Tang wins DOE Early Career Research Award
Released: 23-Jun-2022 3:05 PM EDT
Tang wins DOE Early Career Research Award
Los Alamos National Laboratory

Zhaowen Tang, of Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Dynamic Imaging and Radiography group, received a prestigious Early Career Research Program funding award from the Department of Energy’s Office of Science. The program, now in its thirteenth year, is designed to bolster the nation’s scientific workforce by providing support to exceptional researchers during crucial early career years, when many scientists do their most formative work.

Newswise: Experiment Results Confirm Anomaly Suggesting New Physics Possibility
Released: 16-Jun-2022 1:05 PM EDT
Experiment Results Confirm Anomaly Suggesting New Physics Possibility
Los Alamos National Laboratory

New scientific results confirm an anomaly seen in previous experiments, which may point to an as-yet-unconfirmed new elementary particle, the sterile neutrino, or indicate the need for a new interpretation of an aspect of standard model physics, such as the neutrino cross section, first measured 60 years ago. Los Alamos National Laboratory is the lead American institution collaborating on the Baksan Experiment on Sterile Transitions (BEST) experiment, results of which were recently published in the journals Physical Review Letters and Physical Review C.

Newswise: Quantum Computer Programming for Dummies
Released: 14-Jun-2022 3:55 PM EDT
Quantum Computer Programming for Dummies
Los Alamos National Laboratory

For would-be quantum programmers scratching their heads over how to jump into the game as quantum computers proliferate and become publicly accessible, a new beginner’s guide provides a thorough introduction to quantum algorithms and their implementation on existing hardware.

Newswise: Workshop Gives Details, Seeks Input on Water Use in Carbon-Neutral Energy
Released: 2-Jun-2022 2:05 PM EDT
Workshop Gives Details, Seeks Input on Water Use in Carbon-Neutral Energy
Los Alamos National Laboratory

As planning for carbon-free energy production gains momentum across the Intermountain West, water has come to the forefront as a key enabling resource. To give stakeholders and the public an opportunity to learn about the issues and weigh in with their concerns about water availability, use and conservation during this transition, the Intermountain West Energy Sustainability & Transitions initiative is holding a free virtual workshop June 14.

Newswise: Finding Coherence in Quantum Chaos
Released: 26-May-2022 1:45 PM EDT
Finding Coherence in Quantum Chaos
Los Alamos National Laboratory

A theoretical breakthrough in understanding quantum chaos could open new paths into researching quantum information and quantum computing, many-body physics, black holes, and the still-elusive quantum to classical transition.

Newswise: Climate change will force big shift in timing, amount of snowmelt across Colorado River Basin
Released: 17-May-2022 6:55 PM EDT
Climate change will force big shift in timing, amount of snowmelt across Colorado River Basin
Los Alamos National Laboratory

New research predicts that changes in mountain snowmelt will shift peak streamflows to much earlier in the year for the vast Colorado River Basin, altering reservoir management and irrigation across the entire region.

Newswise: Validation Brings New Predictive Capability to Global Megafire Smoke Impacts
Released: 16-May-2022 12:30 PM EDT
Validation Brings New Predictive Capability to Global Megafire Smoke Impacts
Los Alamos National Laboratory

New research modeling smoke from two recent megafires sets the stage for better forecasting of how emissions from these global-scale events will behave and impact temperatures. As huge wildfires become more common under climate change, increased attention has focused on the intensity and duration of their emissions, which rival those of some volcano eruptions.

Newswise: New Research Could Provide Earlier Warning of Tsunamis
Released: 11-May-2022 6:20 PM EDT
New Research Could Provide Earlier Warning of Tsunamis
Los Alamos National Laboratory

A new method of detecting mega earthquakes, which picks up on the gravity waves they generate by using deep-learning models created at Los Alamos National Laboratory, can estimate earthquake magnitude in real time and provide earlier warning of tsunamis.

Newswise: Los Alamos National Laboratory names Evelyn Mullen new executive officer for Weapons
Released: 25-Apr-2022 11:55 AM EDT
Los Alamos National Laboratory names Evelyn Mullen new executive officer for Weapons
Los Alamos National Laboratory

Los Alamos National Laboratory this week announced the selection of Evelyn Mullen as the new executive officer of the Weapons directorate, effective April 25.

Newswise: Los Alamos National Laboratory, USGS partner to advance wildland-fire research
Released: 21-Apr-2022 1:00 PM EDT
Los Alamos National Laboratory, USGS partner to advance wildland-fire research
Los Alamos National Laboratory

Los Alamos National Laboratory and the U.S. Geological Survey have entered a partnership to produce advanced computer models to predict the behavior of wildfires and prescribed fires. Models will help fire, land and emergency managers plan for, respond to and study the effects of fire on natural landscapes and in the wildland-urban interface.

Newswise: Curiosity reports back on ‘most chemically diverse part’ of Gale Crater on Mars
Released: 21-Apr-2022 11:15 AM EDT
Curiosity reports back on ‘most chemically diverse part’ of Gale Crater on Mars
Los Alamos National Laboratory

The first analysis of the Glen Torridon region in the Gale crater on Mars shows that bedrock in the area was changed by groundwater in the planet’s early history, which has important implications for understanding past habitability and the possibility of finding past life on Mars.

Newswise: Curiosity Rover ChemCam Engineering Team awarded Explorers Club Citation of Merit
Released: 12-Apr-2022 1:45 PM EDT
Curiosity Rover ChemCam Engineering Team awarded Explorers Club Citation of Merit
Los Alamos National Laboratory

The Curiosity Rover ChemCam Engineering Team was awarded the Citation of Merit by the Explorers Club, a society that promotes exploration and scientific field study.

Newswise: 'Frustrated' nanomagnets order themselves through disorder
Released: 7-Apr-2022 4:45 PM EDT
'Frustrated' nanomagnets order themselves through disorder
Los Alamos National Laboratory

Extremely small arrays of magnets with strange and unusual properties can order themselves by increasing entropy, or the tendency of physical systems to disorder, a behavior that appears to contradict standard thermodynamics — but doesn’t.



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