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High-speed fire footage reveals key insights for power plant safety

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

Fire protection and optical engineers at Sandia National Laboratories are using high-speed cameras and advanced algorithms, imaging and analytic methods to understand these high energy arcing faults between two conductors, such as the high-voltage bus bars in a switchgear at a power plant. Flames from experimental arc faults are filled with useful information that can help keep power plants operating safely.

Internships fuel research for engineering students from Puerto Rico

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

The Consortium for Integrating Energy Systems in Engineering and Science Education, CIESESE, internship program, sponsored by the National Nuclear Security Administration, connects engineering students from five Hispanic-serving institutions with research at Sandia National Laboratories and the National Energy Technology Laboratory. The program has recently been extended through next summer.

Should Santa deliver by drone?

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory

Santa has always run a one-sleigh operation, but a new analysis could help him speed deliveries and save energy, if he ever decided to add a drone to his route.

LANL news: Drought impact study shows new issues for plants and carbon dioxide

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Extreme drought's impact on plants will become more dominant under future climate change, as noted in a paper out today in the journal Nature Climate Change.

Journal: Nature Climate Change

Los Alamos AI model wins flu forecasting challenge

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

A probabilistic artificial intelligence computer model developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory provided the most accurate state, national, and regional forecasts of the flu in 2018, beating 23 other teams in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's FluSight Challenge. The CDC announced the results last week.

Hate to wait? Sandia looks to speed up climate research

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Grant and Award Announcement

Sandia National Laboratories has awarded Kelsey DiPietro a Jill Hruby Fellowship to speed up climate research. The applied mathematician has proposed a way to make computer models more efficient -- improving accuracy without increasing time or resources to run them.

Seven Los Alamos scientists and engineers honored as 2019 Laboratory Fellows

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists Brian Albright, Patrick Chain, Dana Dattelbaum, Michael Hamada, Anna Hayes-Sterbenz, Michael Prime and Laura Smilowitz are being honored as 2019 Laboratory fellows.

American Indian Science and Engineering Society recognizes early-career Sandia engineer

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Grant and Award Announcement

Geoscience engineer Dylan Moriarty has been named the 2019 Most Promising Engineer or Scientist by the American Indian Science and Engineering Society. The award is given to an American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander, First Nations and other indigenous person of North America with less than five years of work experience since his or her last degree. It was presented at the society's annual conference Oct. 12.

Ancient oasis once existed on Mars

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory

The surface of Mars was once home to shallow, salty ponds that went through episodes of overflow and drying, according to a paper published today in Nature Geoscience.

Modified quantum dots capture more energy from light and lose less to heat

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists have synthesized magnetically-doped quantum dots that capture the kinetic energy of electrons created by ultraviolet light before it's wasted as heat.

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