Published by the Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1980, 153 pp. Научно-популярный журнал о новых достижениях физики, техники эксперимента и компьютерного моделирования. RESEARCH AND REVIEW. Universal Behavior in Nonlinear Systems - (Mitchell J. Feigenbaum). High-Temperature Superconductivity: A Metallurgical Approach - (Angelo L. Giorgi, Gregory R. Stewart, James L. Smith, and...
Published by the Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1981, 147 pp. Научно-популярный журнал о новых достижениях физики, техники эксперимента и компьютерного моделирования. This volume displays the extraordinary focus on basic research that has remained a LANL hallmark from the days of the Manhattan Project. Dialogue. RESEARCH AND REVIEW. The Solar Corona at Totality – (by Charles...
Published by the Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1981, 161 pp. Научно-популярный журнал о новых достижениях физики, техники эксперимента и компьютерного моделирования. Reactor Safety. Dialogue Inside this Issue PROGRAM FEATURE. A Primer on Reactor Safety Analysis - (Michael G. Stevenson and James F. Jackson). Two-Phase Flow - (Dennis R. Liles). Accident Simulation with TRAC -...
Published by the Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1982, 104 pp. Научно-популярный журнал о новых достижениях физики, техники эксперимента и компьютерного моделирования. Laser photochemistry, the interaction of lasers with molecules, became an important area of research at Los Alamos in the early 1970s. This volume reports on the attempts to use this technique as a means to...
Published by the Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1982, 76 pp. Научно-популярный журнал о новых достижениях физики, техники эксперимента и компьютерного моделирования. The three exciting research projects presented here are shown to have surprising roots in weapons-related research and development. Dialogue RESEARCH AND REVIEW. Cosmic Gamma-Ray Bursts—A Continuing Mystery – (by...
Published by the Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1982, 81 pp. Научно-популярный журнал о новых достижениях физики, техники эксперимента и компьютерного моделирования. Hans Bethe's memo, republished here, was aimed at refuting the notion the J. Robert Oppenheimer had delayed the development of thermonuclear weapons. Other articles focus on topics in nonlinear science and...
Published by the Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1983, 273 pp. Научно-популярный журнал о новых достижениях физики, техники эксперимента и компьютерного моделирования. In 1983 many of the pioneers who helped develop the first fission and thermonuclear bombs were still at LANL and able to relay their first-hand experiences. This volume is filled with their stories and insights...
Published by the Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1983, 90 pp. Научно-популярный журнал о новых достижениях физики, техники эксперимента и компьютерного моделирования. The evolution of nuclear and radiochemistry at Los Alamos is a story that reflects the growth and development of the Laboratory itself. The essential role of nuclear chemistry in diagnosing the performance of...
Published by the Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1983, 76 pp. Научно-популярный журнал о новых достижениях физики, техники эксперимента и компьютерного моделирования. This volume illustrates a growing ability to understand complex biological systems and the role of computers in increasing that capability. RESEARCH AND REVIEW. Cellular Automata - (Stephen Wolfram). Gene...
Published by the Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1984, 82 pp. Научно-популярный журнал о новых достижениях физики, техники эксперимента и компьютерного моделирования. The topics in this volume represent areas of ongoing interest at LANL: the structure and function of proteins, satellite studies of the earth's environment, and the nature of superconductivity. RESEARCH AND...
Published by the Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1984, 217 pp. Научно-популярный журнал о новых достижениях физики, техники эксперимента и компьютерного моделирования. During the second half of the 20th century, the field of elementary particle physics brought a major new understanding of the world at the smallest scales. That knowledge, summarized in the so-called Standard...
Published by the Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1985, 125 pp. Научно-популярный журнал о новых достижениях физики, техники эксперимента и компьютерного моделирования. Articles in this 1985 volume contain harbingers of the future: early numerical simulations that foreshadowed the revolution in supercomputing and visualization, early DNA studies that foreshadowed the Human...
Astrophysics. Published by the Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1986, 98 pp. Научно-популярный журнал о новых достижениях физики, техники эксперимента и компьютерного моделирования. LANL has long been a home to astrophysics research because the physical phenomena key to the performance of nuclear weapons-thermonuclear fusion, implosion and explosion, shock waves, hot plasmas,...
Published by the Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1986, 109 pp. Научно-популярный журнал о новых достижениях физики, техники эксперимента и компьютерного моделирования. Natural heat engines were the passion of the late John Wheatley, one of the greatest low-temperature physicists of the 20th century. Natural engines have no moving parts, making them ideal for applications in...
Special Issue – Stanislav Ulam (1909-1984). Published by the Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1987, 361 pp. Научно-популярный журнал о новых достижениях физики, техники эксперимента и компьютерного моделирования. Stan Ulam, brilliant mathematician, participant in the Manhattan Project, and co-inventor of the hydrogen bomb, was one of those extraordinary men who solidified LANL's...
Published by the Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1988, 81 pp. Научно-популярный журнал о новых достижениях физики, техники эксперимента и компьютерного моделирования. In a conference sponsored by the Laboratory Fellows on the evolution and mysteries of intelligent life: George Wald, Nobel Laureate in physiology, spoke about the nature of consciousness; David Hubel, also a Nobel...
National Security Issues. Published by the Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1989, 81 pp. Научно-популярный журнал о новых достижениях физики, техники эксперимента и компьютерного моделирования. This volume, published prior to the end of the Cold War, reports on a national security conference aimed at predicting the future of nuclear weapons. While the participants did not...
Published by the Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1989, 112 pp. Научно-популярный журнал о новых достижениях физики, техники эксперимента и компьютерного моделирования. In the late 1980's, before it was known that all people are vulnerable to HIV/AIDS, various members of LANL's Theoretical Division began to research basic questions about the growth of the AIDS epidemic and the...
Neutron Scatterig Issue. Published by the Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1990, 230 pp. Научно-популярный журнал о новых достижениях физики, техники эксперимента и компьютерного моделирования. Neutrons have been used to probe the structure of materials since nuclear reactors became a good source of neutrons. In 1975, LANL became a leader in the field when it began the user...
Published by the Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1992, 279 pp. Научно-популярный журнал о новых достижениях физики, техники эксперимента и компьютерного моделирования. The Los Alamos Center for Human Genome Studies. The human genome, the DNA content in each of our cells, presents us with a vast frontier containing answers to many questions about how we evolved, how we are...
The Laboratory's 50th Anniversary. Published by the Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1990, 268 pp. Научно-популярный журнал о новых достижениях физики, техники эксперимента и компьютерного моделирования. In 1993, LANL's 50th anniversary, the Cold War was over, and the Laboratory was in the midst of changing its identity. This volume captures the mood of the times through a...
High-performance computing. Published by the Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1994, 146 pp. Научно-популярный журнал о новых достижениях физики, техники эксперимента и компьютерного моделирования. LANL has been at the forefront of scientific computing since before the invention of electronic computers. For several decades it collaborated with industry on the development of...
Radiation protection and the human radiation experiments. Published by the Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1995, 398 pp. Научно-популярный журнал о новых достижениях физики, техники эксперимента и компьютерного моделирования. Many people have a great fear of radiation with very little understanding about what it is and how its effects vary with dose. Research on the health...
Russian-American Collaborations to Reduce the Nuclear Danger Number. Published by the Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1996, 105 pp. Научно-популярный журнал о новых достижениях физики, техники эксперимента и компьютерного моделирования. Since the end of the Cold War, Russian and American nuclear weapons scientists have been collaborating on both peaceful science projects and...
Celebrating the Neutrino. Published by the Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1997, 180 pp. Научно-популярный журнал о новых достижениях физики, техники эксперимента и компьютерного моделирования. Starting with the Nobel-prize winning discovery of the neutrino in 1956 by Fred Reines and Clyde Cowan, Jr., LANL has made numerous contributions to neutrino physics and astrophysics....
Challenges in Plutonium Science. Published by the Los Alamos National Laboratory, 2000, 510 pp. Научно-популярный журнал о новых достижениях физики, техники эксперимента и компьютерного моделирования. Plutonium is arguably the strangest element in the periodic table and the most difficult to handle in the laboratory. While its nuclear fission properties were correctly predicted...
Published by the Los Alamos National Laboratory, 2002, 337 pp. Научно-популярный журнал о новых достижениях физики, техники эксперимента и компьютерного моделирования. Information, Science, and Technology in a Quantum World A single atom or photon can exist in a superposition of two different states, just as a sound wave can be composed of different frequencies. At LANL's...
Published by the Los Alamos National Laboratory, 2003, 239 pp. Научно-популярный журнал о новых достижениях физики, техники эксперимента и компьютерного моделирования. Celebrating 60 Years. This 60th anniversary review of LANL features the Laboratory's three overarching thrusts: nuclear weapons stockpile stewardship-a decade-long effort to develop the scientific base to certify...
Published by the Los Alamos National Laboratory, 2005, 220 pp. Научно-популярный журнал о новых достижениях физики, техники эксперимента и компьютерного моделирования. Improving predictive capability is an implicit goal in the major missions of Los Alamos National Laboratory: simulating performance of weapons in the stockpile, quantifying uncertainties in those simulations, and...
Published by the Los Alamos National Laboratory, 2006, 233 pp. Научно-популярный журнал о новых достижениях физики, техники эксперимента и компьютерного моделирования. Stretching out along the mesa from west to east is the half-mile long linear acceleartor, the heart of LANSCE. This high-intensity proton accelerator powers LANSCE's many experimental facilities including the...
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