Los Alamos Lab Lists Top Achievements

Action 7 News Thursday 23rd December, 2010

Los Alamos National Laboratory has released a list of its top 10 science and technology developments of the year.The list includes achievements by the northern New Mexico federal lab in such areas as bioscience, astrophysics and metallurgy.Among the achievements are helping develop a new type of HIV vaccine that's progressing to human clinical trials and demonstrating a magnetic resonance scanner for airports that's designed to characterize potentially explosive liquids and gels.The lab also said its scientists are shedding new light on climate change and are learning to design stronger materials that are better suited for use in generating nuclear energy.The lab's principal associate director for science, technology, and engineering, Terry Wallace, said the list is a fraction of what the ...

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