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Holistic data analysis and modeling poised to transform protein X-ray crystallography

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new 3-D modeling and data-extraction technique is about to transform the field of X-ray crystallography, with potential benefits for both the pharmaceutical industry and structural biology. A paper this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences describes the improved blending of experimentation and computer modeling, extracting valuable information from diffuse, previously discarded data.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

City resilience: Sandia analyzes effects of rising sea levels in Norfolk

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

Sandia National Laboratories created an Urban Resilience Analysis Process to help cities become more resilient. The process is a holistic framework that includes Sandia's critical infrastructure modeling and simulation tools, risk consequence assessment and systems analysis expertise to show cities the most effective investments they can make to become more resilient.

Smaller. Cheaper. Better.

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A Sandia-led team has developed a way to make a magnetic material that could lead to lighter and smaller, cheaper and better-performing high-frequency transformers, needed for more flexible energy storage systems and widespread adoption of renewable energy.

Funder: DOE/Energy Storage Program, Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability

Lighting up disease-carrying mosquitoes

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Robert Meagher, a chemical engineer at Sandia National Laboratories, has developed a simple technique for simultaneously detecting RNA from West Nile and chikungunya virus in samples from mosquitoes. He is now working to add the ability to screen for Zika virus.

Journal: Analytical Chemistry

Small businesses win technical support to develop clean energy technologies

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Business Announcement

Four small businesses will be working with Los Alamos National Laboratory to accelerate the nation's transformation toward a clean energy economy as part of the Department of Energy's Small Business Vouchers (SBV) pilot project. These businesses will gain access to world-class laboratory resources to help move innovative ideas and technologies closer to the marketplace.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Nature study reveals rapid ice-wedge loss across Arctic

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Permafrost covers a considerable part of the Arctic; it's been thawing in recent decades, releasing greenhouse gases. New research reveals that similarly ancient ice wedges that form the prevalent honeycomb pattern across the tundra appear to be melting rapidly across the Arctic.

Journal: Nature Geoscience
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Asian-American engineer at Sandia receives national honor

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Grant and Award Announcement

Sandia National Laboratories engineer Tian Ma, whose research helps deter nuclear proliferation, is the 2016 Most Promising Asian American Engineer of the Year (AAEOY). He will be honored in a ceremony on March 12, 2016, in New Brunswick, N.J.

New ways of looking at glass-to-metal seals

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

Components housed in stainless steel for protection against extreme environments require paths for electricity to power them and communicate with them. Those paths in turn need a reliable insulation seal, so strong bonds between materials for airtight seals are crucial.

Argonne and Los Alamos National Laboratories develop more affordable fuel cell components

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Business Announcement

Researchers at the US Department of Energy's Argonne and Los Alamos national laboratories have teamed up to support a DOE initiative through the creation of the Electrocatalysis Consortium, a collaboration devoted to finding an effective but cheaper alternative to platinum in hydrogen fuel cells.

Analyzing genetic tree sheds new light on disease outbreaks

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists have a new tool for unraveling the mysteries of how diseases such as HIV move through a population, thanks to insights into phylogenetics, the creation of an organism's genetic tree and evolutionary relationships.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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