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Research shows brain injury may occur within one millisecond after head hits car windshield

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Center neurologist shows that brain injury may occur within one millisecond after a human head is thrust into a windshield in a car accident. This happens before any overall motion of the head following impact with the windshield and is a new concept to consider for doctors interested in traumatic brain injury.

Z machine melts diamond to puddle

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Sandia's Z machine, by creating pressures more than 10 million times that of the atmosphere at sea level, has turned a diamond sheet into a pool of liquid, in an experiment to better understand the characteristics of diamond under the extreme pressure it would face when used as a capsule for a BB-sized pellet intended to fuel a nuclear fusion reaction.

Sandia researchers develop contaminant warning program for EPA to monitor water systems in real time

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Sandia researchers are working with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, University of Cincinnati and Argonne National Laboratory to develop contaminant warning systems that can monitor municipal water systems to determine quickly when and where a contamination occurs.

LOGIIC helps keep oil, gas control systems safe

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

For the past 12 months, Sandia National Laboratories has served as the lead lab in Project LOGIIC (Linking the Oil and Gas Industry to Improve Cyber Security). The project was created to keep U.S. oil and gas control systems safe and secure, and to help minimize the chance that a terrorist attack could severely damage or cripple America's oil and gas infrastructure.

DOE selects Sandia as National Laboratory Center for Solid-State Lighting Research and Development

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Samuel W. Bodman announced today that Sandia National Laboratories is the new home of the National Laboratory Center for Solid-State Lighting Research and Development. He made the announcement at a news conference at Sandia's International Programs Building.

Phase diagram of water revised by Sandia researchers

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Supercomputer simulations by Sandia researchers have significantly altered the theoretical diagram universally used by scientists to understand the characteristics of water at extreme temperatures and pressures. The new computational model also expands the known range of water's electrical conductivity.

Sandia fingerprinting technique demonstrates wireless device driver vulnerabilities

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have demonstrated a fingerprinting technique that allows hackers with ill intent to identify a wireless driver without modification to or cooperation from a wireless device. Revealing this technique publicly, Sandia researchers hope, can aid in improving the security of wireless communications for devices that employ 802.11 networking.

Sandia's rapidly deployable chemical detection system tested at McAfee Stadium

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Through late June and early July, Sandia researchers in Livermore tested the Rapidly Deployable Chemical Detection System (RDCDS) during Oakland A's games at McAfee Stadium. The system, which can be packaged and deployed within 24 hours locally, is designed to provide swift yet effective protection at high-profile events.

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Sandia National Laboratories and Monsanto Company announce cooperative research agreement

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

Sandia National Laboratories and Monsanto Company today announced a three-year research collaboration that is expected to play a role in both organizations' interests in biology and bioenergy.

Sandia experimental package of piezoelectric films to be part of NASA space station experiment

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

For the past three years a Sandia research team has been investigating the performance of piezoelectric polymer films that might one day become ultra-light mirrors in space telescopes. In 2007, an experimental package of polymers will be part of a NASA experiment on the upcoming Materials International Space Station Experiment.