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25-Nov-2002
Los Alamos helps forecast frequency of giant meteors
DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
A system operated by the U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory and used to "listen" for clandestine nuclear tests has played a key role in helping scientists more accurately determine how often Earth is hammered by giant meteors.
13-Nov-2002
Los Alamos' Sattelberger elected AAAS Fellow
DOE/Los Alamos National LaboratoryGrant and Award Announcement
The leader of Los Alamos' Chemistry Division, Alfred P. Sattelberger, was elected a Fellow by the AAAS Council for his "distinguished contributions to early transition metal and actinide chemistry and for building an outstanding inorganic chemistry program at Los Alamos National Laboratory."
7-Nov-2002
Reactor research could save money on nuclear waste handling
DOE/Sandia National LaboratoriesPeer-Reviewed Publication
Recent experiments by Sandia National Laboratories researcher Gary Harms and his team are using a new Labs-built reactor to provide benchmarks showing that spent nuclear fuel - uranium that has been used as fuel at a nuclear power plant - is considerably less reactive than the original fresh fuel. This could mean significant savings in the eventual safe transport, storage, and disposal of nuclear waste.
29-Oct-2002
At Los Alamos: Tracing biothreats with molecular signatures
DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
For more than a decade, a team of researchers in the DOE's Los Alamos National Laboratory Bioscience Division has been working to prevent the proliferation of biological weapons. The team has developed a powerful set of tools and techniques for deciphering molecular signatures – genetic patterns that distinguish bacterial species and strains.
23-Oct-2002
Sandia-aided method to heal wounded and diseased achieves US government acceptance
DOE/Sandia National LaboratoriesBusiness Announcement
A disposable plastic bag resembling the common kitchen garbage bag, its interior fed by a simple oxygen canister monitored by inexpensive, deceptively simple plastic instruments, has been licensed by the federal government as a tool to heal the sick and the wounded in the nation's military, both active and retired.
21-Oct-2002
Sandia pursues biotechnology as new technology focus area
DOE/Sandia National LaboratoriesBusiness Announcement
Sandia National Laboratories is expanding its work in biotechnology - combining traditional inorganic sciences with biology - to push scientific discovery and development into such areas as the creation of new materials and to help in America's war on terrorism.
15-Oct-2002
Protein folding physics modeled at the atomic level
DOE/Los Alamos National LaboratoryPeer-Reviewed Publication
Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory and the University of California, San Diego, have created the first computer simulation of full-system protein folding thermodynamics at the atomic-level. Understanding the basic physics of protein folding could solve one of the grand mysteries of computational biology.
15-Oct-2002
Plutonium: Size does matter
DOE/Los Alamos National LaboratoryPeer-Reviewed Publication
Los Alamos National Laboratory researchers have found a better way to measure plutonium oxide particles in glove boxes where plutonium research is done. The new system will help improve the quality and safety of several key plutonium processes.
7-Oct-2002
Los Alamos' SCORR technology a tech award finalist
DOE/Los Alamos National LaboratoryGrant and Award Announcement
A Los Alamos National Laboratory technology that may one day change the way integrated circuits are manufactured - eliminating almost all waste products - has been chosen as a finalist for the 2002 Tech Museum Awards given by San Jose, California's Tech Museum of Innovation, in cooperation with the American Council for the United Nations University and Santa Clara University's Center for Science, Technology and Society.