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New funding will stimulate alternative energy research

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Initiatives to provide geothermal heating or power at the Pueblo of Jemez and the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology campus are receiving Los Alamos National Laboratory assistance, thanks to recent American Reinvestment and Recovery Act funding.

Funder: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory names 6 scientists as 2009 Fellows

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Antoinette "Toni" Taylor, Stephen Becker, Joachim Birn, Lowell Brown, Patrick Colestock and Samuel "Tom" Picraux have been designated 2009 Los Alamos National Laboratory Fellows in recognition of sustained, outstanding scientific contributions and exceptional promise for continued professional achievement.

Sandia announces completion of mixed waste landfill cover construction

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The Environmental Restoration Project at Sandia National Laboratories reports the successful construction of an alternative evapotranspirative cover at the Mixed Waste Landfill in September. The 2.6-acre site is located in Technical Area 3 in the west-central part of Kirtland Air Force Base.

LANL Roadrunner simulates nanoscale material failure

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

How nanowires evolve under stress is simulated atom-by-atom over a period of time that is closer than ever to experimental reality.

LANL Roadrunner models nonlinear physics of high-power lasers

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Los Alamos scientists are using an adapted version of VPIC, a particle-in-cell plasma physics code, to model the nonlinear physics of laser backscatter energy transfer and plasma instabilities to assist colleagues at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory as they attempt to reach fusion ignition at the National Ignition Facility next year.

Scientists use world's fastest supercomputer to create the largest HIV evolutionary tree

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In this study the evolutionary history of more than 10,000 sequences from more than 400 HIV-infected individuals was compared. The idea is to identify common features of the transmitted virus, and attempt to create a vaccine that enables recognition the original transmitted virus before the body's immune response causes the virus to react and mutate.

Magnetic mixing creates quite a stir

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Sandia researchers have developed a process that can mix tiny volumes of liquid, even in complicated spaces. Researchers currently use all types of processes to try and create mixing, with only "mixed" success. "In small devices," says Sandia materials scientist Jim Martin, "people have tried all kinds of pillars and mixing cells to initiate mixing, but these approaches don't work well." Researchers need simpler and more reliable ways to mix in tiny places such as micrometer-sized channels, Martin said.

Journal: Physical Review

Science at the petascale: Roadrunner results unveiled

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The world's fastest supercomputer, Roadrunner, at Los Alamos National Laboratory has completed its initial "shakedown" phase doing accelerated petascale computer modeling and simulations of a variety of unclassified, fundamental science projects.

Scientists use world's fastest supercomputer to model origins of the unseen universe

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The model is one of the largest simulations of the distribution of matter in the universe, and aims to look at galaxy-scale mass concentrations above and beyond quantities seen in state-of-the-art sky surveys.

'Perspectives on Energy Policy' report now available

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Energy leaders call for independent energy council, recommend outcomes and values-based policies.