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Sandia cyber-testing contributes to DHS Transition to Practice

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

Through the Department of Homeland Security's Transition to Practice program, cybersecurity technologies developed at Sandia National Laboratories -- and at other federal labs -- now stand a better chance of finding their way into the real world.

Funder: Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate

Breakthrough antibacterial approach could resolve serious skin infections

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In several cases, scientists found an ionic liquid was more efficacious on a pathogenic biofilm than a standard bleach treatment and exhibited minimal cytotoxicity effects on human cell lines (unlike bleach). This has excellent prospects for aiding antibiotic delivery to the pathogen through biofilm disruption.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Scientists uncover combustion mechanism to better predict warming by wildfires

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists have uncovered key attributes of so-called 'brown carbon' from wildfires, airborne atmospheric particles that may have influenced current climate models that failed to take the material's warming effects into account. The work was described by a collaborative team of researchers from Los Alamos National Laboratory, Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Montana in the journal Nature Geosciences this week.

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

Los Alamos laser selected for 2020 Mars mission

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Business Announcement

NASA announced today that laser technology originally developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory has been selected for its new Mars mission in 2020.

Watching neurons fire from a front-row seat

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

Sandia National Laboratories is working with Arizona State University on the challenge of recording and measuring signals from the brain.

IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Society Merit Award honors Sandia radiation effects expert

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Grant and Award Announcement

Sandia radiation effects researcher Jim Schwank has won the 2014 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society Merit Award, which recognizes outstanding technical contributions to the fields of nuclear and plasma sciences.

More California gas stations can provide H2 than previously thought, Sandia study says

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A study by researchers at Sandia National Laboratories concludes that a number of existing gas stations in California can safely store and dispense hydrogen, suggesting a broader network of hydrogen fueling stations may be within reach.

Funder: DOE/Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

Diamond plates create nanostructures through pressure, not chemistry

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Mechanical force -- about the same amount that raises the numerals on credit cards -- proves to be a much more varied and ecological creator of nanostructures than the current method of choice, chemistry, with its unvarying results and harmful processes.

Journal: Nature Communications
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, Office of Science

IED detector developed by Sandia Labs being transferred to Army

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

Sandia National Laboratories is transferring its IED detector, a highly modified MiniSAR system mounted on unmanned aerial vehicles, to the US Army to support combat military personnel.

Probing Fukushima with cosmic rays should speed cleanup

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Business Announcement

A Los Alamos technique called muon tomography can safely peer inside the cores of the Fukushima Daiichi reactors and create high-resolution images of the damaged nuclear material inside without ever breaching the cores themselves. The initiative could reduce the time required to clean up the disabled complex by at least a decade and greatly reduce radiation exposure to personnel working at the plant.

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