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Computer Errors Caused by Cosmic Rays from Outer Space

This video shows Los Alamos National Laboratory scientist's work on researching the cosmic causes of errors to supercomputers. Cosmic rays from outer space are causing errors in supercomputers, known as single event upsets. The neutrons that pass through the CPU may be causing binary data to flip leading to incorrect calculations. Los Alamos National Laboratory, including Nathan...

Citizen Scientists Help Discover New Type of Aurora!

The aurora known as Steve seen over Lake Minnewanka in Alberta. Photo by Paulo Fedozzi Notanee Bourassa knew that what he was seeing in the night sky was not normal. Bourassa, an IT technician in Regina, Canada, trekked outside of his home on July 25, 2016, around midnight with his two younger children to show them a beautiful moving light display in the sky...

Terwilliger: Model-Building Using cryo-EM Maps

Tom Terwilliger, a Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) scientist and New Mexico Consortium (NMC) senior scientist, gave a seminar Tuesday March 6, 2018 at the NMC Biolab titled, Model-building using cryo-EM maps. Tom Terwilliger has helped make macromolecular structure determination by X-ray crystallography easier for generations of scientists by creating easy-to-use...

Neuromorphic Computing Research Highlighted in Discover Magazine

February 2018, Discover Magazine featured an article on Garrett Kenyon and his team’s neuromorphic computing research titled, Computers Learn to Imagine the Future. Garrett Kenyon, a Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and New Mexico Consortium (NMC) scientist does research on creating computers that can process things and learn in the same way the way as the human cerebral cortex. Other...

Pebble Labs Creates Biotechnology for Disease Control

The New Mexico Consortium (NMC) hosts a bi-weekly seminar series held at the NMC Biological Laboratory at 100 Entrada Drive. The latest seminar was held Tuesday, February 13th, by Dr. Richard Sayre on the Los Alamos start-up company Pebble Labs, Inc. Dr. Sayre's talk was titled, Pebble Labs; designing continuous, sustainable, RNA-mediated disease control systems for multiple host systems. ...

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