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Los Alamos National Laboratory 2020 Year In Review By CAROL A. CLARK caclark@ladailypost.com Looking back over 2020, Director Thom Mason said it is the 13,000 Laboratory employees that he is most proud of … how they have stepped up and met the challenges of a global pandemic. LANL Director Thom Mason Just shifting that large number of employees from working onsite to working remotely was quite an endeavor and Mason commended the employees on having adapted so well. “Those employees that had to be onsite were safer by not having more people here,” he said during a recent interview with t...

15 Ways LANL Made An Impact In 2020 — COVID-19 And Beyond While COVID-19 dominated headlines in the science world, Los Alamos National Laboratory made its mark on 2020 with successes across the board. Photo Courtesy LANL LANL NEWS From innovation in education to nonreactive nuclear energy, COVID-19 forecasts to jet fuel produced from corn, the Laboratory spent the year impacting the nation — and New Mexico 1: Front-line fighters in the war against COVID-19 Beginning in March and still going strong, Laboratory experts in computer modeling and disease forecasting have been some of our mo...

 E-Mail IMAGE: The physics magazine Physics World recognizes 'Light from silicon' as the revolutionary new discovery of the year. They deem the work of the group of TU/e researcher Erik Bakkers to... view more  Credit: Photo: TU Eindhoven In April of this year, TU/e presented a new gamechanger in the chip world: silicon that emits light. For decades it has been regarded as the 'Holy Grail' in the microelectronics industry, given that it could make computer chips faster than ever. The physics magazine Physics World recognizes this revolutionary new discovery, and now deems the work o...

 E-Mail IMAGE: Prof. Dr Silvana Botti and Jens Renè Suckert from the University of Jena have been awarded for the "Breakthrough of the Year " 2020. On the PC is the image from... view more  Credit: (Photo: Juergen Scheere/University of Jena) For the development of a light-emitting silicon alloy, researchers from TU Eindhoven, Netherlands and the University of Jena, Germany together with partners from the University of Linz and TU Munich, are today (17 December) being awarded the "Breakthrough of the Year" prize by Physics World magazine. In its paper, published in April 2020, the ...

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