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Math error: A new study overturns 100-year-old understanding of color perception

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...
10-Aug-2022 12:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Los Alamos National Laboratory and SK hynix to demonstrate first-of-a-kind ordered Key-value Store Computational Storage Device

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...
29-Jul-2022 3:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Anti-butterfly effect enables new benchmarking of quantum-computer performance

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.
26-Jul-2022 1:55 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Wildfire-smoke observations fill gap in estimating soot’s role in climate change

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.
21-Jul-2022 5:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Grid (un)locked: Carbon neutral future depends on updating how we make, move and store electricity

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...
21-Jul-2022 12:30 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Arctic Temperatures Are Increasing Four Times Faster Than Global Warming

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...
6-Jul-2022 8:15 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Los Alamos National Laboratory researcher Luis Chacon wins E.O. Lawrence Award

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.
27-Jun-2022 11:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Tang wins DOE Early Career Research Award

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...
23-Jun-2022 3:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites