High Altitude Water Cherenkov Observatory Tests Speed of Light

New measurements confirm, to the highest energies yet explored, that the laws of physics hold no matter where you are or how fast you’re moving.
31-Mar-2020 8:25 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Flat-panel technology could transform antennas, wireless and cell phone communications

Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory are reinventing the mirror, at least for microwaves, potentially replacing the familiar 3-D dishes and microwave horns we see on rooftops and cell towers with flat panels that are compact, versatile, and...
20-Mar-2020 6:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

LANL News: New program helps New Mexico small businesses bring technology to market

New Mexico companies who find themselves up a creek without venture capital to ferry them across the research and development gap from invention to commercialization may receive a life-preserver thanks to a new law recently passed by the New Mexico...
16-Mar-2020 7:15 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Space weather model gives earlier warning of satellite-killing radiation storms

A new machine-learning computer model accurately predicts damaging radiation storms caused by the Van Allen belts two days prior to the storm, the most advanced notice to date, according to a new paper in the journal Space Weather.
2-Mar-2020 12:40 PM EST Add to Favorites

Machine learning reveals earth tremor and slip occur continuously, not intermittently

Applying deep learning to seismic data has revealed tremor and slip occur at all times—before and after known large-scale slow-slip earthquakes—rather than intermittently in discrete bursts, as previously believed.
26-Feb-2020 7:05 PM EST Add to Favorites

Fifteen organizations join Los Alamos’ Efficient Mission Centric Computing Consortium in first year

Just over a year after Los Alamos National Laboratory launched the Efficient Mission Centric Computing Consortium (EMC3), 15 companies, universities and federal organizations are now working together to explore new ways to make extreme-scale...
28-Jan-2020 12:30 PM EST Add to Favorites

Los Alamos high-performance computing veteran to chair SC22

Candace Culhane, a program/project director in Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Directorate for Simulation and Computation, has been selected as the general chair for the 2022 SC Conference (SC22).
27-Jan-2020 12:10 PM EST Add to Favorites

Los Alamos National Laboratory spent $396 million with New Mexico business in 2019

New numbers for fiscal year 2019 show Los Alamos National Laboratory’s big impact on New Mexico’s economy, as the Laboratory employed 12,041 people for a total of $1.16 billion in salaries and contracted with small businesses statewide for...
23-Jan-2020 2:35 PM EST Add to Favorites

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