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Researchers discover new source of formic acid over Pacific, Indian oceans

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Insights from experiments at Sandia National Laboratories designed to push chemical systems far from equilibrium allowed an international group of researchers to discover a new major source of formic acid over the Pacific and Indian oceans.

Journal: Nature Communications
Funder: Department of Energy

Cutting it short

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

Gene editing technology could one day eliminate diseases currently considered incurable. Thanks to a new test developed by Sandia National Laboratories scientists, that day is closer to dawning.

Progress toward plugging an antibiotic pump

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Using computer modeling, researchers from Sandia National Laboratories and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are helping to develop the means to prevent deaths from infections caused by antibiotic resistant bacteria.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Most wear-resistant metal alloy in the world engineered at Sandia National Laboratories

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Sandia's materials science team has engineered a platinum-gold alloy believed to be the most wear-resistant metal in the world. It's 100 times more durable than high-strength steel, making it the first alloy, or combination of metals, in the same class as diamond and sapphire, nature's most wear-resistant materials.

Journal: Advanced Materials

Bird communities dwindle on New Mexico's Pajarito Plateau

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers have found declines in the number and diversity of bird populations at nine sites surveyed in northern New Mexico, where eight species vanished over time while others had considerably dropped.

Journal: Biological Conservation
Funder: Los Alamos' Environmental Stewardship Program funded the study.

Computer simulations predict the spread of HIV

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In a recently published study in the journal Nature Microbiology, researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory show that computer simulations can accurately predict the transmission of HIV across populations, which could aid in preventing the disease.

Journal: Nature Microbiology
Funder: National Institutes of Health

Large supercrystals promise superior sensors

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Supercrystals grown from tiny particles of gold have finer sensing capabilities than those commonly used to detect the chemicals in drugs or explosives.

Journal: Nature Communications
Funder: Sandia's Laboratory Directed Research and Communication program, DOE Basic Energy Sciences

Dry casks take the heat

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

Sandia National Laboratories researchers have built a scaled test assembly that mimics a dry cask storage container for spent nuclear fuel to study how fuel temperatures change during storage and how the fuel's peak temperatures affect the integrity of the metal cladding surrounding the spent fuel. Regulators could use the data to help verify computer simulations that show whether nuclear power utilities are complying with regulations that specify how much heat a dry cask can safely handle.

Funder: Department of Energy, The Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Feeding plants to this algae could fuel your car

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The research shows that a freshwater production strain of microalgae, Auxenochlorella protothecoides, is capable of directly degrading and utilizing non-food plant substrates, such as switchgrass, for improved cell growth and lipid productivity, useful for boosting the algae's potential value as a biofuel.

Journal: Algal Research

Generating electrical power from waste heat

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers from Sandia National Laboratories have developed a tiny silicon-based device that can harness what was previously called waste heat and turn it into DC power. Their advance was recently published in Physical Review Applied.

Journal: Physical Review Applied

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