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Asteroid monitored from outer space to ground impact

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

An international research team has been able to identify an asteroid in space before it entered Earth's atmosphere, enabling computers to determine its area of origin in the solar system as well as predict the arrival time and location on Earth of its shattered surviving parts.

Journal: Nature

Los Alamos researchers create 'map of science'

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists have produced the world's first Map of Science -- a high-resolution graphic depiction of the virtual trails scientists leave behind when they retrieve information from online services. The research, led by Johan Bollen, appears this week in PLoS ONE.

Journal: PLOS One
Funder: Los Alamos National Laboratory, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Sandia's diamond-like films on board NASA satellite

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

Diamond-like carbon films created at Sandia National Laboratories are helping probe the far boundaries of the solar system as part of a NASA mission to study how the sun's solar wind interacts with the interstellar medium -- the matter that exists between the stars within a galaxy.

Huge pressures that melt diamond on planet Neptune determined by Sandia researchers

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The enormous pressures needed to melt diamond to slush and then to a completely liquid state have been determined 10 times more accurately by Sandia National Laboratories researchers than ever before.

Journal: Science

Research highlights potential for improved solar cells

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A team of Los Alamos researchers led by Victor Klimov has shown that carrier multiplication -- when a photon creates multiple electrons -- is a real phenomenon in tiny semiconductor crystals and not a false observation born of extraneous effects that mimic carrier multiplication. The research, explained in a recent issue of Accounts of Chemical Research, shows the possibility of solar cells that create more than one unit of energy per photon.

Journal: Accounts of Chemical Research
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Biofuels can provide viable, sustainable solution to reducing petroleum dependence

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

An in-depth study by Sandia National Laboratories and General Motors Corp. has found that plant and forestry waste and dedicated energy crops could sustainably replace nearly a third of gasoline use by the year 2030.

Funder: General Motors

Sandia adopts new agreement forms to allow universities/industry to use facilities

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

Sandia National Laboratories is adopting two new Department of Energy model agreements that will simplify the way universities and industry use the Labs facilities.

More chip cores can mean slower supercomputing, Sandia simulation shows

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The multicore dilemma: More cores on a single chip don't necessarily mean faster clock speeds, a Sandia simulation has determined.

Sandia's microencapsulation project gives local entrepreneur warm glow

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

Sandia National Laboratories resident microencapsulation expert, Duane Schneider, is working with an Albuquerque company to use microencapsulation technology in a novel self-warming hand and body lotion.

Los Alamos observatory fingers cosmic ray 'hot spots'

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A Los Alamos National Laboratory cosmic-ray observatory has seen for the first time two distinct hot spots that appear to be bombarding Earth with an excess of cosmic rays. The research calls into question nearly a century of understanding about galactic magnetic fields near our solar system.

Journal: Physical Review Letters
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, Los Alamos National Laboratory, National Science Foundation