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Painless microneedles extract fluid for wearable sensors for soldiers, athletes

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

Microneedles are the first way to extract large volumes of pure interstitial fluid. This fluid can be used to track the physical conditions of athletes, soldiers, even diabetics but could also aid in diagnosing other diseases, including cancer.

Hunt is over for one of the 'top 50 most-wanted fungi'

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists from several institutions including Los Alamos National Laboratory have characterized a sample of 'mystery' fungus collected in North Carolina and found its home in the fungal tree of life.

Journal: Mycologia
Funder: Michigan State University AgBioResearch, Western Illinois University, US Department of Energy's Office of Science, National Science Foundation, and others, US Department of Agriculture, National Institutes of Health

Four Los Alamos scientists named as 2017 Laboratory Fellows

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Four Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists have been named 2017 Fellows: Donald Burton, Stephen Doorn, Manvendra Dubey, and Turab Lookman.

Sandia Labs wins 5 regional technology transfer awards

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Grant and Award Announcement

Sandia National Laboratories won five awards from the 2017 Federal Laboratory Consortium for its work to develop and commercialize innovative technologies. The annual FLC awards program recognizes federal laboratories and their industry partners for outstanding technology transfer achievements.

Cleaning up subways: Sandia's 20-year mission to stop anthrax in its tracks

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

Sandia National Laboratories engineer Mark Tucker has spent much of the past 20 years thinking about incidents involving chemical or biological warfare agents, and the best ways to clean them up. Tucker's current project focuses on cleaning up a subway system after the release of a biological warfare agent such as anthrax.

Funder: Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate's Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency

Nanotechnology experts at Sandia create first terahertz-speed polarization optical switch

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

A Sandia National Laboratories-led team has for the first time used optics rather than electronics to switch a nanometer-thick thin film device from completely dark to completely transparent, or light, at a speed of trillionths of a second.

Journal: Nature Photonics

Carlsten, Nguyen and Sheffield win Free-Electron Laser Prize

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

At an international science conference hosted recently in Santa Fe, N.M., Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists Bruce Carlsten, Dinh Nguyen and Richard Sheffield were awarded the 2017 Free-Electron Laser (FEL) Prize.

Discovery of boron on Mars adds to evidence for habitability

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The discovery of boron on Mars gives scientists more clues about whether life could have ever existed on the planet, according to a paper published today in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.

Journal: Geophysical Research Letters

Sandia's Radiation analysis software makes emergency responders' jobs quicker, easier

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

Decision-makers in emergency situations can now turn to a new Sandia National Laboratories-developed tool called InterSpec. A software application available for both mobile and traditional computing devices, InterSpec can rapidly and accurately analyze gamma radiation data collected at the scene.

Beating the heat with nanoparticle films

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

A partnership between Sandia National Laboratories and Santa Fe, New Mexico-based IR Dynamics is turning nano-size particles that reflect heat, or infrared radiation, into window films for offices, houses, even cars.

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