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Basic laws of physics spruce up machine learning

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Grant and Award Announcement

A radical proposal to use the laws of physics before, not after, machine learning computations are performed has won a DOE Early Career award for a Sandia researcher.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Helping protect medical professionals

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

A media comprised of a sandwich of materials, tested by Sandia National Laboratories, is being manufactured into N95-like respirators that could be used in local medical facilities. The project originated from the urgent need for personal protective equipment when the COVID-19 outbreak began.

Was there life on Mars? New podcast explores instruments aboard Mars rover

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory

Could Jezero Crater hold the keys to unlocking an ancient and hidden past when life might have existed on the Martian surface?

Nondestructive positron beams probe damage, support safety advances in radiation environments

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A multi-institution team has used positron beams to probe the nature of radiation effects, providing new insight into how damage is produced in iron films.

Journal: Science Advances

Simulating quantum 'time travel' disproves butterfly effect in quantum realm

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Using a quantum computer to simulate time travel, researchers have demonstrated that, in the quantum realm, there is no 'butterfly effect.' In the research, information--qubits, or quantum bits--'time travel' into the simulated past.

Journal: Physical Review Letters

Ning Xu selected fellow of the American Chemical Society

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory

Ning Xu of the Actinide Analytical Chemistry group at Los Alamos has been selected as a member of the 2020 class of Fellows of the American Chemical Society (ACS). Xu is being recognized for her sustained contributions to actinide analytical chemistry in support of national nuclear defense, technical nuclear forensics, nuclear material safeguards and deep space exploration.

New Mars rover tool will zap rocks to investigate planet's past habitability

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory

When NASA's Perseverance rover launches from Florida on its way to Mars, it will carry aboard what is likely the most versatile instrument ever made to better understand the Red Planet's past habitability.

Atomtronic device could probe boundary between quantum, everyday worlds

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new device that relies on flowing clouds of ultracold atoms promises potential tests of the intersection between the weirdness of the quantum world and the familiarity of the macroscopic world we experience every day.

Journal: Nature Communications

Study finds less impact from wildfire smoke on climate

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

New research revealed that tiny, sunlight-absorbing particles in wildfire smoke may have less impact on climate than widely hypothesized because reactions as the plume mixes with clean air reduce its absorbing power and climate-warming effect.

Shock-dissipating fractal cubes could forge high-tech armor

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

3D printed cubes,with intricate fractal voids efficiently dissipate shockwaves, potentially leading to new types of lightweight armor and materials to better withstand explosions and impacts.

Journal: AIP Advances
Funder: Los Alamos National Laboratories Laboratory Directed Research and Development

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