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Two Sandia microChemLab technologies soon to be checking for toxins in the nation's water supplies

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

Two technologies developed at the National Nuclear Security Administration's Sandia National Laboratories are expected to soon be checking for toxins and harmful bacteria in the nation's water supplies. Both are based on the microChemLab.

Climate researchers meet to simulate flight operations for storm cloud experiment

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

This week, a team of more than 25 international cloud climate scientists are conducting a three-day operations and planning simulation at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, California, to prepare for a complex experiment that will result in the most detailed data sets ever collected for tropical convection.

Funder: US Department of Energy/Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program, Australian Bureau of Meteorology

Sandia conducts tests at Solar Tower to benefit future NASA space explorations

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

For the last two years, tests have been conducted at Sandia National Laboratories' National Solar Thermal Test Facility to see how materials used for NASA's future planetary exploration missions can withstand severe radiant heating.

Sandia, task force to study ways ocean and wastewater can be desalinized in California

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Grant and Award Announcement

Researchers from the National Nuclear Security Administration's Sandia National Laboratories, together with fellow members of the Joint Water Reuse & Desalination Task Force, in coming months will be studying the best ways to desalinize - and make potable - ocean water, subsurface brines, and wastewater.

Bioforensics Analysis Research and Development Center created at Los Alamos

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

To help authorities trace the source of the deadly letters, bioforensic analysts, Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists among them, worked diligently to pinpoint the specific strain of bacteria used. This summer, recognizing Los Alamos' technical capabilities, the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) allocated $4 million for a new research and development program in bioforensics under the sponsorship of the National Bioforensic Analysis Center (NBFAC) of the DHS.

Using computers and DNA to count bacteria

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Don't call them the Dirt Doctors, or Sultans of Soil, they're just clever Lab guys. A team from Los Alamos National Laboratory has a paper in this week's Science Magazine with a new way to count bugs in dirt. Bacteria, that is, in the highly complex world beneath our feet.

Nature paper: Burning asteroids may play 'more important climate role than previously recognized'

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In a study to be published this week in the journal Nature, scientists from the Australian Antarctic Division, the University of Western Ontario, the Aerospace Corporation, and Sandia and Los Alamos national laboratories found evidence that dust from an asteroid burning up as it descended through Earth's atmosphere formed a cloud of micron-sized particles significant enough to influence local weather in Antarctica.

Journal: Nature

Sandia researchers to study techniques for arsenic removal from drinking water

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Grant and Award Announcement

Over the next several months a team of researchers from the National Nuclear Security Administration's Sandia National Laboratories will be studying different methods of arsenic removal at the Desert Sands Mutual Domestic Water Consumers Association (MDWCA) in Anthony in southern New Mexico.

Sandia completes depleted uranium study

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Sandia National Laboratories has completed a two-year study of the potential health effects associated with accidental exposure to depleted uranium (DU) during the 1991 Gulf War.

Sandia researcher shares European physics prize for work; observations transformed Z-pinch field

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Grant and Award Announcement

For the remarkable achievements of the multi-filament Z-pinch development in the recent years," Sandia researcher Tom Sanford shares the European Physical Society's Hannes Alfven Prize with Malcolm Haines, former director of London's Imperial College Plasma Physics Dept., and Valentin Smirnov, director of the Institute of Nuclear Fusion at the Kurchatov Institute in Moscow.