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24-Jun-2021
Setting gold and platinum standards where few have gone before
DOE/Sandia National LaboratoriesPeer-Reviewed Publication
Like two superheroes finally joining forces, Sandia's Z machine -- generator of the world's most powerful electrical pulses -- and Lawrence Livermore's National Ignition Facility -- the planet's most energetic laser source -- have detailed gold and platinum responses to pressures so extreme that their atomic structures momentarily distorted like images in a fun-house mirror.Until now there has been no way to accurately calibrate these pressures , the first step to controlling them.
- Journal
- Science
- Funder
- National Nuclear Security Administration
22-Jun-2021
Bahran honored with Secretary of Defense Medal for Exceptional Service
DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Rian Bahran, a Los Alamos National Laboratory scientist on assignment in Washington, D.C, has received the Secretary of Defense Medal for Exceptional Public Service for his exemplary performance.
17-Jun-2021
Thin, stretchable biosensors could make surgery safer
DOE/Los Alamos National LaboratoryPeer-Reviewed Publication
A research team from Los Alamos National Laboratory and Purdue University have developed bio-inks for biosensors that could help localize critical regions in tissues and organs during surgical operations.
- Journal
- Nature Communications
15-Jun-2021
Cleared for takeoff
DOE/Sandia National LaboratoriesBusiness Announcement
A 30-year program that made flying safer through continued innovations in airplane inspection, maintenance and airworthiness research has ended its tenure at Sandia National Laboratories. The Federal Aviation Administration Airworthiness Assurance Center, or AANC, operated by Sandia for the FAA, is moving to the National Institute of Aviation Research at Wichita State University to combine with another long-standing FAA center. The planned move supports shifts in structure at both Sandia and the FAA.
12-Jun-2021
Los Alamos teams with international group to examine spread of infectious disease by migratory birds
DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
A multinational effort is underway to understand and control the spread of disease among migratory birds.
12-Jun-2021
Boundary of heliosphere mapped for the first time
DOE/Los Alamos National LaboratoryPeer-Reviewed Publication
For the first time, the boundary of the heliosphere has been mapped, giving scientists a better understanding of how solar and interstellar winds interact.
- Journal
- The Astrophysical Journal
9-Jun-2021
Using a mineral 'sponge' to catch uranium
DOE/Sandia National LaboratoriesBusiness Announcement
A team of researchers from Sandia, Lawrence Berkeley and Pacific Northwest national laboratories tested a "sponge-like" mineral that can "soak up" uranium at a former uranium mill near Rifle, Colorado.
- Funder
- Department of Energy Office of Legacy Management
7-Jun-2021
Why arctic soil can go slip-sliding away
DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Slow-moving arctic soils form patterns that, from a distance, resemble those found in common fluids such as drips in paint and birthday cake icing.
2-Jun-2021
After 40 years, Sandia's Combustion Research Facility still driving toward the future
DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
There isn't a single modern vehicle on the road today that hasn't benefitted from the work done at the CRF.