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New cooling method for supercomputers to save millions of gallons of water

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

A prototype method to cool supercomputer data centers should save hundreds of millions of gallons of water if widely adopted.

Sandia experts, students explore mechanical challenges at summer institute

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

Nearly 40 students ranging from local high school youths to international postdoctoral fellows gathered this summer at Sandia National Laboratories' Nonlinear Mechanics and Dynamics (NOMAD) Summer Research Institute to study two steel bars bolted together. This deceptively simple system behaves in odd -- nonlinear -- ways, which has important implications for bridges, cars, even airplanes.

Plants found to regulate leaf temperature to boost carbon uptake

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study has found that plants regulate their leaf temperature with some independence from the surrounding air temperature, a trait that increases carbon uptake through photosynthesis.

Journal: Nature Plants

New class of fuel cells offer increased flexibility, lower cost

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new class of fuel cells based on a newly discovered polymer-based material could bridge the gap between the operating temperature ranges of two existing types of polymer fuel cells, a breakthrough with the potential to accelerate the commercialization of low-cost fuel cells for automotive and stationary applications.

Journal: Nature Energy

Looking from space for nuclear detonations

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

Sandia National Laboratories, which has been in the business of nuclear detonation detection for more than 50 years, is working on the next generation system.

Isotope research opens new possibilities for cancer treatment

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study at Los Alamos National Laboratory and in collaboration with Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource greatly improves scientists' understanding of the element actinium. The insights could support innovation in creating new classes of anticancer drugs.

Journal: Nature Communications

Wiring reconfiguration saves millions for Trinity supercomputer

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Business Announcement

A moment of inspiration during a wiring diagram review has saved more than $2 million in material and labor costs for the Trinity supercomputer at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Researchers at Sandia, Northeastern develop method to study critical HIV protein

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Mike Kent, a researcher in Sandia National Laboratories' Biological and Engineering Sciences Center, is studying a protein called Nef involved in HIV progression to AIDS with the ultimate goal of blocking it. He and his collaborators have developed a new hybrid method to study this HIV protein that compromises the immune system. The method also could work on many other proteins that damage cellular processes and cause diseases.

Journal: Analytical Chemistry
Funder: National Institutes of Health

Designing a geothermal drilling tool that can take the heat

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

Sandia National Laboratories and a commercial firm have designed a drilling tool that will withstand the heat of geothermal drilling.

Tide-triggered tremors give clues for earthquake prediction

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The triggering of small, deep earthquakes along California's San Andreas Fault reveals depth-dependent frictional behavior that may provide insight into patterns signaling when a major quake could be on the horizon, according to a paper released this week by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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