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Curiosity rover finds evidence of Mars' primitive continental crust

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The ChemCam laser instrument on NASA's Curiosity rover has turned its beam onto some unusually light-colored rocks on Mars, and the results are surprisingly similar to Earth's granitic continental crust rocks. This is the first discovery of a potential 'continental crust' on Mars.

Journal: Nature Geoscience
Funder: NASA

Testing heats up at Sandia's Solar Tower with high temperature falling particle receiver

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories are working to lower the cost of solar energy systems and improve efficiencies in a big way, thanks to a system of small particles.

Sandia's Z machine receives funding aimed at fusion energy

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Grant and Award Announcement

To hasten the day of low-cost, high-yield fusion reactions for energy purposes, a $3.8 million ARPA-E grant to Sandia National Labs and the U of Rochester will help smooth laser beams to increase output of a promising Sandia fusion technique called MagLIF.

Funder: DOE/Advanced Research Projects Agency Energy

Sandia's Z machine helps solve Saturn's 2-billion-year age problem

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Data from Z-machine experiments at Sandia National Laboratories may help explain why Saturn appears 2 billion years younger than its neighbor Jupiter in some computer simulations.

Journal: Science
Funder: National Nuclear Security Administration

Analyzing ocean mixing reveals insight on climate

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory have developed a computer model that clarifies the complex processes driving ocean mixing in the vast eddies that swirl across hundreds of miles of open ocean.

Journal: Journal of Physical Oceanography

New fog chamber provides testing options that could improve security cameras

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

Sandia National Laboratories has developed a fog chamber -- one of the world's largest -- that creates a controlled environment to more easily test security cameras, sensors or other equipment.

RAPTOR turbulent combustion code selected for next-gen supercomputer readiness project

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

RAPTOR, a turbulent combustion code developed by Sandia National Laboratories mechanical engineer Joseph Oefelein, was selected as one of 13 partnership projects for the Center for Accelerated Application Readiness (CAAR). CAAR is a US Department of Energy program located at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility focused on optimizing computer codes for the next generation of supercomputers.

Uncovering the mysteries of cosmic explosions

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

An automated software system developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory played a key role in the discovery of supernova iPTF 14atg and could provide insight, a virtual Rosetta stone, into future supernovae and their underlying physics.

Journal: Nature
Funder: Laboratory Directed Research and Development

Sandia researchers first to measure thermoelectric behavior by 'Tinkertoy' materials

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Sandia National Laboratories researchers have made the first measurements of thermoelectric behavior by a nanoporous metal-organic framework, a development that could lead to an entirely new class of materials for such applications as cooling computer chips and cameras and energy harvesting. The results were published in 'Thin Film Thermoelectric Metal-Organic Framework with High Seebeck Coefficient and Low Thermal Conductivity,' which appeared April 28 online in Advanced Materials.

Journal: Advanced Materials

Drought-induced tree mortality accelerating in forests

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory have found that drought and heat-induced tree mortality is accelerating in many forest biomes as a consequence of a warming climate in their paper 'Darcy's law predicts widespread forest mortality under climate warming,' published in the journal Nature Climate Change.

Journal: Nature Climate Change

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