Bradbury Science Museum Association Shares De-Coding And DNA Fun At ScienceFest 2016
The Bradbury Science Museum Association (BSMA) engages visitors of all ages at its first public activity during Los Alamos ScienceFest Saturday at Ashley Pond Park. Photo by KayLInda Crawford/ladailypost.com
It’s a busy day at the BSMA ScienceFest booth as Los Alamos High School student volunteers, from left, Jenny Wang, Maia Menefee, Serena Birenbaum, Prestley Gao and Tom Maggiore demonstrate the Enigma machine coding system used by the Germans in WWII. In addition to learning about deciphering codes, participants also had a chance to separate out wheat germ DNA – another Read More
Oppenheimer Lecture: National Academy Of Sciences President Examines Question Of Climate Intervention
National Academy of Sciences President Marcia McNutt will deliver the 46th annual J. Robert Oppenheimer lecture Wednesday night in Los Alamos. Courtesy photo
A few years back, the American geophysicist Marcia McNutt was one of three distinguished scientists who were asked by a British publication — if they could go to any time in the past, which event would they most like to see. At that time she was executive director of the U.S. Geological Survey and the question came from EarthWise, a digital magazine of the Royal Scottish Geological
U.S. Sen. Tom Udall Thanks Los Alamos Native For Work During Washington, D.C., Internship
U.S. Sen. Tom Udall thanks Gillian Hsieh Ratliff of Los Alamos for her work as an intern in his Washington, D.C., office this summer. Courtesy photo
U.S. SENATE News:
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Sen. Tom Udall thanked Los Alamos native Gillian Hsieh Ratliff for her work as an intern in his Washington, D.C., office this summer. During her seven weeks on Capitol Hill, Hsieh Ratliff worked primarily on health related issues.
“Gillian has worked on a number of important health policy issues this summer and has been of great help in my Washington, D.C. office,” Udall said. “I hope that she finds her Read More
Los Alamos Celebrates ScienceFest 2016
Visitors to ScienceFest gather today at Ashley Pond Park. Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
A robot launches a ball. Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
Operating the ball-launching robot. Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
Watching the drones perform. Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
Drone aloft. Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
3D chalk drawing. Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
Chalk Walk drawing. Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
Chalk Walk artist. Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
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DOE News:Los Alamos Computational Scientist Wins 2016 Carcinogenesis Young Investigator Award
LANL’s Ludmil Alexandrov wins 2016 Carcinogenesis Young Investigator Award.
LANL News:
Ludmil Alexandrov, of Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Theoretical Biology and Biophysics group, is the winner of the 2016 Carcinogenesis Young Investigator Award. Given biennially by the journal Carcinogenesis: Integrative Cancer Research, published by Oxford University Press, and the European Association for Cancer Research, the award recognizes a recent significant contribution to carcinogenesis research by an investigator under the age of 40.
“Ludmil’s research uses large-scale computational Read More
