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5-Sep-2002
Ambitious plan to give sight to the blind
DOE/Sandia National LaboratoriesPeer-Reviewed Publication
Enabling the blind to see - a task once thought the province of miracles - is the goal of a technical team that includes Sandia National Laboratories, four other national labs, a private company, and two universities.
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- US Department of Energy's Office of Biological and Environmental Research
3-Sep-2002
Los Alamos: Home to the world’s most powerful controlled-pulse magnet
DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Over the past 11 years in the world of magnets, The Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory has gone from being recognized for pulse megagauss explosives field work to being the world leader in pulsed-magnetic-field research and home to the world's most powerful controlled-pulse magnet.
22-Aug-2002
Beryllium’s cellular assault
DOE/Los Alamos National LaboratoryPeer-Reviewed Publication
Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory, seeking to better understand the pathology of Chronic Beryllium Disease are studying the fundamental properties of metal interaction with carboxylate molecules, carbon/oxygen structures that are common in the body, to better understand how metals, specifically beryllium in water solution, might attack human cells.
21-Aug-2002
Sandia helps public health officials with anti-terror 'decision analysis' tool
DOE/Sandia National LaboratoriesPeer-Reviewed Publication
Imagine the unimaginable: terrorists have released a biological agent throughout the San Francisco Bay Area that threatens local residents. Key decision-makers and government entities - including public health officials, law enforcement, emergency management personnel, elected officials, and media - must quickly decide how to respond. The speed and effectiveness with which they do so may mean life or death for dozens - or thousands - of citizens.
19-Aug-2002
Thirty years after power up
DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Thirty years ago this summer – in 1972 – the world's most powerful linear accelerator powered up for the first time. When it reached full energy, it generated pulses of 800-million-electron-volt protons at a repetition rate of up to 120 per second and an average current of 1 milliampere. It was the dawn of a new era in nuclear physics.
14-Aug-2002
New compound may immobilize AIDS virus, certain radionuclides
DOE/Sandia National LaboratoriesPeer-Reviewed Publication
A compound that could potentially immobilize the AIDS virus or selectively extract radionuclides from nuclear wastes at various U.S.high-level storage sites has been developed by a researcher at Sandia National Laboratories who wasn't even looking for it.
12-Aug-2002
Energy-efficient supercomputers
DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Users of high-performance computers traditionally have focused on the cost of acquiring the big machines instead of the costs of maintenance, power and people. Not so with "Green Destiny."
8-Aug-2002
Inside the most capable simulation facility in the world
DOE/Los Alamos National LaboratoryBusiness Announcement
It's termed the most capable simulation facility in the world. The newly constructed 303,000-square-foot Nicholas C. Metropolis Center for Modeling and Simulation was built to house "Q," one of the world's largest and most capable computers.
8-Aug-2002
Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies receives $75 million DOE go-ahead
DOE/Sandia National LaboratoriesGrant and Award Announcement
Sandia and Los Alamos national laboratories will jointly receive $75.8 million for the design and construction of buildings to house the practical yet visionary Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT).
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- US Department of Energy's Office of Science