Antarctica Remains the Wild Card for Sea-Level Rise Estimates Through 2100

A massive collaborative research project covered in the journal Nature this week offers projections to the year 2100 of future sea-level rise from all sources of land ice, offering the most complete projections created to date.
5-May-2021 2:20 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Using cosmic-ray neutron bursts to understand gamma-ray bursts from lightning

Analysis of data from a lightning mapper and a small, hand-held radiation detector has unexpectedly shed light on what a gamma-ray burst from lightning might look like – by observing neutrons generated from soil by very large cosmic-ray showers....
28-Apr-2021 11:00 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Machine learning model generates realistic seismic waveforms

A new machine-learning model that generates realistic seismic waveforms will reduce manual labor and improve earthquake detection, according to a study published recently in JGR Solid Earth.
22-Apr-2021 3:50 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Ultra-high-energy gamma rays originate from pulsar nebulae

The discovery that the nebulae surrounding the most powerful pulsars are pumping out ultra-high-energy gamma rays could rewrite the book about the rays’ galactic origins. Pulsars are rapidly rotating, highly magnetized collapsed stars surrounded...
22-Apr-2021 8:10 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Cerreta Named President of Nation’s Professional Society for Minerals, Metals, and Materials Scientists and Engineers

Ellen Cerreta, the Los Alamos National Laboratory’s division leader for Materials Science and Technology, has been named president of The Minerals, Metals, & Materials Society (TMS), a professional society for scientists and engineers in those...
20-Apr-2021 3:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

New pulsed magnet reveals a new state of matter in Kondo insulator

A recent series of experiments at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (National MagLab) at Los Alamos National Laboratory leveraged some of the nation’s highest-powered nondestructive magnets to reveal an exotic new phase of matter at high...
19-Apr-2021 5:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

New AI tool tracks evolution of COVID-19 conspiracy theories on social media

A new machine-learning program accurately identifies COVID-19-related conspiracy theories on social media and models how they evolved over time—a tool that could someday help public health officials combat misinformation online.
19-Apr-2021 1:30 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Simulations reveal how dominant SARS-CoV-2 strain binds to host, succumbs to antibodies

Large-scale supercomputer simulations at the atomic level show that the dominant G form variant of the COVID-19-causing virus is more infectious partly because of its greater ability to readily bind to its target host receptor in the body, compared...
16-Apr-2021 2:35 PM EDT Add to Favorites

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