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How can we tackle the biggest challenges? Ask a plant

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Without plants, we’d have no air to breathe or food to eat, yet plant science lingers in the shadowy wings while other fields take center stage. With the goal of shining the spotlight on plants, a new study presents the field’s top 100 most pressing questions for research to address the greatest challenges facing humanity.

Journal: New Phytologist

Sandia scientists help enhance advanced nuclear reactor analysis

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

Sandia National Laboratories engineers have developed a standardized screening method to determine the most important radioactive isotopes produced by an advanced nuclear reactor in the unlikely event of an incident.

Funder: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Hackers could try to take over a military aircraft; can a cyber shuffle stop them?

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A cybersecurity technique that shuffles network addresses like a blackjack dealer shuffles playing cards could effectively befuddle hackers gambling for control of a military jet, commercial airliner or spacecraft, according to new research.

Journal: IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing

Studying ship tracks to inform climate intervention decision-makers

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists from Sandia National Laboratories are studying ship tracks — clouds that reflect sunlight and are formed by moving ships, similar to contrails from planes — to help inform decision-makers of the benefits and risks of one technology being considered to slow climate change.

Journal: Environmental Data Science
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

New superalloy could cut carbon emissions from power plants

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers from Sandia National Laboratories have shown that a new 3D-printed superalloy could help power plants generate more electricity while producing less carbon.

Journal: Applied Materials Today

Securing supply chains with quantum computing

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

New research in quantum computing at Sandia National Laboratories is moving science closer to being able to overcome supply-chain challenges and restore global security during future periods of unrest.

Journal: Physical Review A

Can clay capture carbon dioxide?

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A Sandia National Laboratories-led team of scientists has been using powerful computer models combined with laboratory experiments to study how a kind of clay can soak up carbon dioxide and store it.

Journal: The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Physics-guided machine-learning models will improve subsurface imaging

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A team of scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory is applying machine-learning algorithms to subsurface imaging that will impact a variety of applications, including energy exploration, carbon capture and sequestration and estimating pathways of subsurface contaminant transport, according to new research published in IEEE Signal Processing Magazine.

Understanding plants can boost wildland-fire modeling in uncertain future

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new conceptual framework for incorporating the way plants use carbon and water, or plant dynamics, into fine-scale computer models of wildland fire provides a critical first step toward improved global fire forecasting.

Journal: New Phytologist

A fresh look at restoring power to the grid

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

Sandia National Laboratories computer scientists have been working on an innovative computer model to help grid operators quickly restore power to the grid after a complete disruption, a process called “black start.”

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

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