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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.

Standards for a new genomic era

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A team of geneticists at Los Alamos National Laboratory, together with a consortium of international researchers, has recently proposed a set of standards designed to elucidate the quality of publicly available genetic sequencing information. The new standards could eventually allow genetic researchers to develop vaccines more efficiently or help public health or security personnel more quickly respond to potential public-health emergencies.

Journal: Science

Sandia, SRC win LES award for NINE program outreach

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Grant and Award Announcement

Sandia National Laboratories' National Institute for Nano-Engineering (NINE) program, operated in conjunction with the Semiconductor Research Corp., has won a "Deal of Distinction" award from the Licensing Executives Society (US and Canada), Inc. The award -- a glass sculpture -- will be presented today in San Francisco.

Sandia joins forces with Boeing, Caltrans, others on fuel cell-powered mobile lighting application

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

Sandia National Laboratories, with help from the Boeing Company, the California Department of Transportation, and others, is leading an effort to develop a commercially viable, fuel cell-powered mobile lighting system.

IBEX satellite finds ribbon-like structure at edge of heliosphere

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The invisible structures of space are becoming less so, as scientists look out to the far edges of the solar wind bubble that separates our solar system from the interstellar cloud through which it flies. Using the High Energy Neutral Atom Imager, led by Los Alamos National Laboratory, the NASA Interstellar Boundary Explorer mission has sent back data that indicates a "noodle soup" of solar material has accumulated at the outer fringes of the heliosphere bubble.

Journal: Science
Funder: NASA

Oldest hominid skeleton provides new evidence for human evolution

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A Los Alamos National Laboratory geologist is part of an international research team responsible for discovering the oldest nearly intact skeleton of Ardipithecus ramidus, who lived 4.4 million years ago. The discovery reveals the biology of the first stage of human evolution better than anything seen to date.

Journal: Science

Los Alamos technology strikes a chord with algal biofuels

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Business Announcement

An award-winning Los Alamos National Laboratory sound-wave technology is helping Solix Biofuels Inc. optimize production of algae-based fuel in a cost-effective, scalable, and environmentally benign fashion -- paving the way to lowering the carbon footprint of biofuel production.

Hydrogen storage gets new hope

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new method for "recycling" hydrogen-containing fuel materials could open the door to economically viable hydrogen-based vehicles. In an article appearing today in Angewandte Chemie, Los Alamos National Laboratory and University of Alabama researchers working within the US Department of Energy's Chemical Hydrogen Storage Center of Excellence describe a significant advance in hydrogen storage science.

Fuel cells transform cars

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory

Lab scientists are refining fuel cell technologies to create amazingly energy-efficient and eco-friendly vehicles.