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Sandia microscaffolding fits perfectly in patient's jaw

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In an operating room in Carle Hospital in Urbana, Ill., on May 7, as scientists from the University of Illinois (UI) and Sandia National Laboratories watched, surgeon Michael Goldwasser fitted a highly unusual ceramic prosthetic device into the mouth of an elderly woman who had lost most of her teeth and along with it, much of the bone of her lower jaw.

Proton radiography at Los Alamos

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory

Researchers are now using protons to probe the details of imploding weapon mock-ups. Proton radiography is enhancing the Lab's ability to predict the performance of stockpiled nuclear weapons.

Los Alamos restores U.S. ability to make nuclear weapons

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Los Alamos National Laboratory has successfully made the first nuclear weapons pit in 14 years that meets specifications for use in the U.S. stockpile.

Modeling bone remodeling

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory

Los Alamos theoreticians are using algorithms developed in weapons research to understand bone dynamics and abnormalities like osteoporosis.

Z produces fusion neutrons, Sandia scientists confirm

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Throwing its hat into the ring of machines that offer the possibility of achieving controlled nuclear fusion, Sandia National Laboratories' Z machine has created a hot dense plasma that produces thermonuclear neutrons.

Meeting: American Physical Society April Meeting 2003

Los Alamos weapons X-ray facility completed

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Business Announcement

Los Alamos National Laboratory has completed construction of the second stage of the world's most powerful flash X-ray machine, a key experimental tool needed to study how aging nuclear weapons behave in the absence of nuclear testing.

Los Alamos' 60th anniversary

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory

As it turns 60 years old, Los Alamos National Laboratory holds a special place in the modern-day genealogy of science and technology, says George "Pete" Nanos, the laboratory's interim director. "We are proud of our accomplishments. However, we will never rest on our laurels or be held motionless by the past."

Healing or self-damage: Immunoreceptors' 'split personality'

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory

Sometimes described as a "liquid brain," the immune system is continually poised at the edge of disaster, required to aggressively attack invading pathogens without damaging its own body. The challenge of understanding the complexity of signaling entailed in such a delicately balanced system has been taken up by Los Alamos National Laboratory researchers, who are developing a mathematical model of immunoreceptors, a large and diverse group of proteins that decode regulatory signals.

Sandia researchers partner with SFO, others to develop facility-protection system

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

Building on the success of a program first employed at Washington, D.C.'s Metro subway system, researchers at the Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories in California are working with San Francisco International Airport (SFO) to test operational capabilities and new detection systems that will protect against chemical or biological terrorist threats.

Science at Los Alamos

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory

Los Alamos is a laboratory with a mission. It began nearly sixty years ago with the Manhattan Project and the first successful nuclear test at Trinity Site. The Laboratory's mission has evolved through the years, and the Laboratory has evolved with it--but always in response to national needs and with a national security focus.