Los Alamos National Laboratory

During my time at Sandia National Laboratories, I interned under the department of WMD Threats and Aerosol Science. I saw men and women using their scientific and engineering backgrounds to study and understand systems that can be used to counteract chemical and biological weapons of mass destruction. It was incredible to see and work on various projects that allowed for counter-terrorism. One of the biggest projects I worked on was our "Spray Knockdown System" it is a massive, almost…

A traditional computer simply executes a sequence of commands in a single order - like oxen plowing a field. But, according to Blaise Barney of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, parallel computing works by partitioning a problem into multiple tasks which can be done at the same time. For example, your graphics processor may render each section of the screen separately or a signal processing program might apply multiple…

non-metal and also a noble gas. The start of the element, Neon, was when a Scottish chemist named William Ramsay discovered Neon, Krypton, and Argon, which are all noble gasses ("Periodic Table of Elements: Los Alamos National Laboratory." Periodic Table of Elements: Los Alamos National Laboratory). For this achievement, William Ramsay won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Another person who helped Sir William Ramsay discover Neon and a couple other periodic elements classified as noble gases was…

camera, a visible and electromagnetic mapping spectrometer, gamma ray and a neutron spectrometer. The radiometric and optical navigation data will provide data relating to the gravity field in addition to the instruments. According to Jet Propulsion Laboratory since April 11, Dawn has been aiming its camera to the left and forward as it orbits and Ceres rotates. By May 25, it will have mapped most of the globe from that angle. Then it will start all over once more, looking instead to the right…

The United States was at war with the Axis powers of World War Two. Rumors that Germany was developing a weapon with destructive force that was yet unseen by the world. Such a device could give them the edge to win the war against the allies. This rumor triggered fear with American scientists and physicists and caused president Roosevelt to create a project to research and develop their own weapon before the Nazis. The Manhattan project was created to research and develop technology with the…

simulations include all aspects of chemistry and help to speed up the pace of theoretical chemistry. The first computer simulation of a liquid took place in 1953 at the Los Alamos National Laboratories (Hinechliffe, 2006, p. vi) and is considered to be influential in the field of computational chemistry. This success at Los Alamos laid the foundation for the simulation techniques that are used by computational chemists today (Allen & Tildesley, 1989, p. 2). In spite of this early success…

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Continuing on EDVAC’s model with some minor upgrades, copies were made and expanded to different locations in order to understand its architecture. Later AVIDAC was recreated at Argonne National Laboratory, JOHNNIAC at the RAND Corporation, ILLIAC at the University of Illinois, MANIAC at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, ORDVAC at Aberdeen Proving Grounds. Von Neumann’s legacy was represented by the IAS-class computers built around the world during the 1950s for commercial and government use.…

Did People Vote Legally in Nevada? With absolutely no evidence at all, Nevada’s Secretary of State has claimed that at least 3 people who are non-citizens have registered in the 2016 election.Barbara Cegavske has made a serious charge against those individuals since it is a Federal offense to vote and sign the voting registration. According to Amy Rose (Legal director for the ACL of Nevada) and Joe Gloria (Clark county’s registrar), they believed that it might’ve been a miscommunication since…

4. Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS) In principle, a temperature of 130C could be reached at any location of the planet at a sufficient depth. For instance, temperatures of this level can be found at depths between 5 and 10 km in half of the surface of USA. Based on this fact, enhanced geothermal systems (EGS) aim at utilizing the heat available at high depths by injecting a heat transfer fluid through a well. Although today few geothermal wells are deeper than 3 km given the high drilling…