What did the film get right about J. Robert Oppenheimer? Los Alamos historian Alan Carr explains.

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Can algae power cars? Biofuels are an often-overlooked green energy source. Los Alamos National Laboratory's Babs Marrone explains.

With a place-based approach that emphasizes community-level input, I-WEST is looking at how best to incorporate  technologies for decarbonization, such as clean hydrogen, carbon capture and storage, bioenergy, wind and solar, into the region’s economies. 

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Megaflashes are incredibly rare. In order to record one from the ground, or from an aircraft or satellite in a low orbit, the sensor has to be exactly in the right place at the right time, which is unlikely. Now, researchers are using Geostationary Lightning Mappers and other instruments that can map flash size from space and — importantly — provide continuous coverage over a large portion of the Earth. No matter how rare these megaflashes are or where they occur across the instrument’s vast field of view, GLM can detect them and measure their dimensions. 

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