Los Alamos National Laboratory

In the 1940s, as Los Alamos scientists raced to unlock and harness the physics of fission, a parallel scientific revolution was taking shape, one that would take nuclear science from splitting atoms to saving lives: biomedical isotopes. The science of isotopes was fundamental to the mission at Los Alamos from day one. Some isotopes fission readily, like the uranium used in nuclear reactors (U-235), while others don’t, like the uranium found in nature (U-238). The difference boils down to neutrons.

By 1970, fourteen years after Los Alamos scientists first proved the existence of the neutrino, they knew something was amiss: an underground neutrino experiment built inside the Homestake Mine, an enormous active gold mine in South Dakota, was detecting way fewer neutrinos coming from the Sun than scientists had predicted, and they didn’t know why. Neutrinos are famously elusive elementary particles. They are electromagnetically neutral and nearly massless, making them extremely hard to detect.

Cristian Pantea, a research scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, has been named the Lab’s 2025 Battelle Inventor of the Year, recognizing his sustained leadership and innovation in acoustic sensing technologies. Battelle manages eight national laboratories across the U.S. The Battelle Inventor of the Year Award recognizes a researcher at each of these labs who demonstrate outstanding creativity, impact and commitment to advances technology transfer.

Training data for the AI model included high resolution images captured by a scanning electron microscope. Electrochemical deposition, or electroplating, is a common industrial technique that coats materials to improve corrosion resistance and protection, durability and hardness, conductivity and more.

Scientists have designed quantum control protocols that generate processes more consistent with time flowing backward than forward. In new research published in Physical Review X, scientists have designed quantum control protocols that generate processes more consistent with time flowing backward than forward. The protocols - techniques to control quantum systems - modify a quantum system's "arrow of time," the concept of time as moving in one forward direction.

Fiber-optic cables lie on the surface and beneath crushed basalt in an indoor lab at Los Alamos National Laboratory to determine whether they could be used on the surface of the moon to detect moonquakes. The crushed basalt simulates the lunar surface. Two recent studies suggest that fiber-optic cables laid directly on the moon's surface could potentially detect moonquakes, offering a simpler way to gather seismic data to support future human and robotic exploration.

The 2026 Hazmat Challenge will be conducted in accordance with OSHA 29 CFR 1910.120 and NFPA 470 to ensure training certification captures: Refresher credit Continuous Education Units (CEUs) Competencies Job Performance Requirements (JPRs) to meet Hazardous Materials Technician qualification standards.

A two-week free camp for students that focuses on STEM and Energy Security. The 10th Annual Summer Physics Camp invites young students to dive into the exciting world of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) through hands-on experiences and real-world exploration.

These unique, guided tours take participants behind the fence on Los Alamos National Laboratory property at the historic Pajarito Site, current-day Technical Area 18. Visitors will see the Pond Cabin, which served as an office for Emilio Segrè's Radioactivity Group studying plutonium; a battleship bunker used to protect equipment and staff during implosion design explosives testing; and the Slotin Building, site of Louis Slotin's criticality accident.