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Bright thinking leads to breakthrough in nuclear threat detection science

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Taking inspiration from an unusual source, a Sandia National Laboratories team has dramatically improved the science of scintillators -- objects that detect nuclear threats. According to the team, using organic glass scintillators could soon make it even harder to smuggle nuclear materials through America's ports and borders.

Sandia creates better 'fingerprints' to detect elusive, valuable chemical compounds

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

Sandia National Laboratories chemists David Osborn and Carl Hayden have created a custom-made instrument that has enhanced the power of a method called photoelectron photoion coincidence, or PEPICO, spectroscopy.

Upgrades at Sandia Lab's Tonopah Test Range help weapons testing

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

It's been a challenge for Sandia National Laboratories' Tonopah Test Range to keep decades-old equipment running while gathering detailed information required for 21st century non-nuclear testing. Over the past several years, the Nevada range changed the analog brains in instruments to digital, moved to modern communications systems and upgraded telemetry and tracking equipment and computing systems.

Mechanical engineering society elects 4 fellows from Sandia Labs

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Grant and Award Announcement

Fellows of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers make up only 3.1 percent of ASME's 107,895 members. Sandia National Laboratories engineers Cliff Ho, Alexander Brown, Hy Tran and Kevin Dowding now are members of that elite group.

'Charliecloud' simplifies Big Data supercomputing

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

At Los Alamos National Laboratory, home to more than 100 supercomputers since the dawn of the computing era, elegance and simplicity of programming are highly valued but not always achieved. In the case of a new product, dubbed 'Charliecloud,' a crisp 800-line code helps supercomputer users operate in the high-performance world of Big Data without burdening computer center staff with the peculiarities of their particular software needs.

History of Sandia Labs rocketry told in award-winning film, 'It Really Is Rocket Science!'

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

Sandia National Laboratories tells the story of rocket testing and aerospace work at the labs through a new documentary, 'It Really Is Rocket Science!'

Rover findings indicate stratified lake on ancient Mars

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A long-lasting lake on ancient Mars provided stable environmental conditions that differed significantly from one part of the lake to another, according to a comprehensive look at findings from the first three-and-a-half years of NASA's Curiosity rover mission.

Journal: Science

'Halos' discovered on Mars widen time frame for potential life

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Lighter-toned bedrock that surrounds fractures and comprises high concentrations of silica -- called 'halos' -- has been found in Gale crater on Mars, indicating that the planet had liquid water much longer than previously believed.

Journal: Geophysical Research Letters

Insight into enzyme's 3-D structure could cut biofuel costs

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Using neutron crystallography, a Los Alamos research team has mapped the three-dimensional structure of a protein that breaks down polysaccharides, such as the fibrous cellulose of grasses and woody plants, a finding that could help bring down the cost of creating biofuels.

Journal: Biochemistry

Strategic Petroleum Reserve taps Sandia expertise in salt

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

Decades of Sandia National Laboratories expertise on how salt domes behave went into a recent report that concluded that the US Department of Energy is justified in extending the life of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

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