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Sandia Labs playing key role in grid modernization

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

Sandia National Laboratories is leading the Security and Resilience area of the Department of Energy's Grid Modernization Laboratory Consortium and bringing its strong research capability in grid modernization to help the nation modernize its power grid.

Thor's hammer to crush materials at 1 million atmospheres

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Thor, expected to be 40 times more efficient than Sandia's Z machine, the world's largest and most powerful pulsed-power accelerator, is expected to dramatically improve the design of similar machines aiming for high-yield fusion.

Journal: Physical Review Special Topics - Accelerators and Beams
Funder: Sandia's Laboratory Directed Research and Development office, National Nuclear Security Administration's Science Campaign

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.

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