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Study forecasts disappearance of conifers due to climate change

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory

A new study, led by Los Alamos National Laboratory, suggests that widespread loss of a major forest type, the pine-juniper woodlands of the Southwestern US, could be wiped out by the end of this century due to climate change, and that conifers throughout much of the Northern Hemisphere may be on a similar trajectory.

New Mars rover findings revealed at American Geophysical Union Conference

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

New findings by NASA's Mars Curiosity rover are the focus of a press conference this morning at the American Geophysical Union meeting.

New model more accurately tracks gases for underground nuclear explosion detection

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory have developed a new, more thorough method for detecting underground nuclear explosions (UNEs) by coupling two fundamental elements -- seismic models with gas-flow models--to create a more complete picture of how an explosion's evidence (radionuclide gases) seep to the surface. Their findings will appear in today's edition of the journal Nature's Scientific Reports in a paper titled, 'Radionuclide Gas Transport through Nuclear Explosion-Generated Fracture Networks.'

Journal: Scientific Reports

Speeding up the hydrogen highway

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

Drivers are seeing more hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles on the road, but refueling stations for those vehicles are still few and far between. This is about to change, and one reason is the Hydrogen Station Equipment Performance device, or HyStEP, which will greatly accelerate station commissioning.

Portable MRI named Top 10 Breakthrough of 2015 by Physics World magazine

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Los Alamos National Laboratory's portable MRI was named one of the Top 10 Breakthroughs of the Year by Physics World, the member magazine of the Institute of Physics. Portable MRI, also called Battlefield MRI (bMRI), uses ultra-low-field magnetic resonance imaging to create images of injured soft tissues, such as the brain.

Government relations manager at Sandia Labs honored by American Physical Society

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Grant and Award Announcement

Benn Tannenbaum, manager of Sandia National Laboratories' Washington, DC, office, has been elected a fellow of the American Physical Society. He was nominated by its Forum on Physics and Society.

Managing the data deluge for national security analysts

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

National security analysts often find that available data is growing much faster than their ability to observe and process it. Sometimes they can't make key connections and often they are overwhelmed struggling to use data for predictions and forensics. Sandia National Laboratories' Pattern Analytics to Support High-Performance Exploitation and Reasoning team has developed solutions that will enable analysts to work smarter, faster and more effectively when looking at complex data in real-time, stressful environments.

Journal: Statistical Analysis and Data Mining The ASA Data Science Journal

Nanoscale, multidimensional artificial magnet created

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory

Scientists from Los Alamos National Laboratory, in collaboration with a group at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Advanced Light Source and with other researchers nationwide, have realized a nanoscale, artificial magnet by arranging an array of magnetic nano-islands along a geometry that is not found in natural magnets. Their paper 'Emergent reduced dimensionality by vertex frustration in artificial spin ice' appears on the journal Nature Physics' website today.

W80-4: Sandia California works on nuclear weapon Life Extension Program

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

Sandia National Laboratories is performing a Life Extension Program on the W80-4 nuclear weapon. The Life Extension Program is refurbishing the W80 warhead with replacement components for aging technology and components that have limited lifespans. Much of the work is being done at Sandia's California site.

Los Alamos-led consortium works to enhance fuel cell technology

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory

Los Alamos National Laboratory is leading a Department of Energy- Fuel Cells Technologies Office-funded project to enhance the performance and durability of polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel cells, while simultaneously reducing their cost.

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