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First detection of boron on the surface of Mars

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Boron has been identified for the first time on the surface of Mars, indicating the potential for long-term habitable groundwater in the ancient past.

Meeting: 2016 AGU Fall Meeting

Sandia Labs, Singapore join forces to develop energy storage

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

Sandia National Laboratories has signed a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the government of Singapore's Energy Market Authority (EMA) that will tap into the labs' expertise in energy storage.

EDGE bioinformatics brings genomics to everyone

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new bioinformatics platform called Empowering the Development of Genomics Expertise (EDGE) will help democratize the genomics revolution by allowing users with limited bioinformatics expertise to quickly analyze and interpret genomic sequence data.

Journal: Nucleic Acids Research

Aircraft inspectors have new Sandia course to help detect composite material damage

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

In the midst of holiday travel season, airline customers want to feel safe in the new aircraft made of composite materials. Sandia National Laboratories has developed a new course being offered to the airline and aircraft manufacturing industries on how to inspect solid-laminate composites in aircraft.

Radiation security team from Sandia works behind the scenes at events to protect public

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

Richard Stump has been to five Super Bowls and hasn't seen a single pass, run or touchdown. Stump works security -- a very special kind of security -- at large public events. He's a senior scientist on Sandia National Laboratories' Radiological Assistance Program (RAP) team.

Nanotechnology manager elected president of Materials Research Society

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

Senior manager Sean Hearne, who leads the Center of Integrated Nanotechnology (CINT) for Sandia National Laboratories, has been elected president of the Materials Research Society. MRS is an international organization that promotes interdisciplinary materials research with 15,000 members from academia, industry and national labs.

American Indian engineers present inaugural award to Sandia diversity specialist

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Grant and Award Announcement

Marie Capitan, a diversity workforce specialist at Sandia National Laboratories, is one of five professionals honored this weekend at the 2016 AISES National Conference in Minneapolis. She will accept the Blazing Flame Award, which honors an outstanding professional who has blazed a path for Native Americans in science, technology, engineering and math education and careers.

The destructive effects of supercooled liquid water on airplane safety and climate models

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

Exploring the properties of supercooled liquid water -- the bane of airplane wings and climate theorists -- Sandia Labs is mounting an expedition to fly huge tethered balloons in Alaska this winter, where temperatures descend to 40 degrees below zero and it's dark as a dungeon for all but a few hours of the day.

Mutational signatures mark cancer's smoking gun

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A broad computational study of cancer genome sequences identifies telltale mutational signatures associated with smoking tobacco and demonstrates, for the first time, that smoking increases cancer risk by causing somatic mutations in tissues directly and indirectly exposed to tobacco smoke.

Journal: Science

Sandia to evaluate if computational neuroscientists are on track

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) launched the Machine Intelligence from Cortical Networks (MICrONS) project earlier this year. Sandia National Laboratories is refereeing the work of three university-led teams to map, understand and mathematically re-create visual processing in the brain to close the computer-human gap in object recognition.

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