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Hot polymer catches carbon dioxide better

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new and economical technology for the separation and capture of carbon dioxide from industrial processes could lead to a significant reduction in greenhouse-gas emissions to the atmosphere. Scientists at the Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory are developing a new high-temperature polymer membrane to separate and capture carbon dioxide, preventing its escape into the atmosphere.

Soil's love affair with carbon viewed with millimeter resolution

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Promoting the love affair between farmlands and carbon while substantially reducing harmful carbon dioxide in the atmosphere could be facilitated through super-sharp analysis of tiny soil-core samples made possible by a portable, carbon-measuring laser system developed by a research team at the Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory.

LANSCE builds on 2001 successes as it readies for new run

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory

As researchers at the world’s most powerful linear accelerator prepare for the upcoming run cycle, they look back on a successful 2001 run cycle that produced scores of experimental results for basic and defense science, built key new facilities and instruments and set records for operating efficiency.

Research with high magnetic fields

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory

The National High Magnetic Field Laboratory at DOE's Los Alamos National Laboratory develops for use in basic research the world's most powerful pulsed electromagnets. A super-powerful generator can deliver a pulse equal to more than one million times the magnetic field found naturally on Earth.

HERPES database online

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory

To aid in the search for cures and vaccines for sexually transmitted diseases, the Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory has released a publicly available Web database containing the Human herpesvirus 2 genomic sequence.

At Los Alamos: Tracking the identity and origin of biological threats

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory

Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Northern Arizona University and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have developed sophisticated tools to analyze and identify the DNA of biological threat agents, including those that cause anthrax and plague.

Molecular shuttling

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

The Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratory researchers observed molecular shuttling on a man-made membrane that mimics cellular behavior. Recurring movements may evolve into rudimentary tools of nanoconstruction. These observations were published as the cover story in the April 30, 2002, issue of the chemical and biophysics journal Langmuir.

Tungsten photonic lattice changes heat to light

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Tungsten-filament bulbs — the most widely used light source in the world —burn hands if unscrewed while lit. Now a microscopic lattice has potential to transmute the majority of heat wasted by a tungsten filament into the frequencies of visible light, thus helping reduce the world's most serious energy problem.

Journal: Nature
Funder: Sandia National Laboratories

Astronomers link X-ray flashes to gamma-ray bursts

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Astronomers have discovered what may be the lower-energy "poor relations" of cosmic gamma-ray bursts, the fantastically powerful explosions occurring daily in distant galaxies throughout the universe.

A nickel's worth of foil helps make antimatter

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory

Making antimatter that can't be seen and that otherwise might not exist, filtering it through a nickel's worth of aluminum foil and then capturing it in a "trap" without walls, has the attention of Los Alamos National Laboratory physicist Michael Holzscheiter.