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Black hole birth captured by cosmic voyeurs

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Intelligent telescopes designed by Los Alamos National Laboratory got a front row seat recently for an unusual birth. "Los Alamos' RAPTOR telescopes in New Mexico and Hawaii received a very bright cosmic birth announcement for a black hole on April 27," said astrophysicist Tom Vestrand, lead author of a paper appearing today in the journal Science that highlights the unusual event.

Journal: Science

HIV virus spread and evolution studied through computer modeling

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory are investigating the complex relationships between the spread of the HIV virus in a population (epidemiology) and the actual, rapid evolution of the virus (phylogenetics) within each patient's body.

Journal: Nature
Funder: National Institutes of Health

Converting natural gas to liquid transportation fuels via biological organisms

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Grant and Award Announcement

Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories will use their expertise in protein expression, enzyme engineering and high-throughput assays as part of a multiproject, $34 million effort by the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy aimed at developing advanced biocatalyst technologies that can convert natural gas to liquid fuel for transportation.

Funder: Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy

Sandia's Katherine Guzman receives national Hispanic award for technical contributions

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Grant and Award Announcement

The Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Awards Corp. (HENAAC) recently named Sandia National Laboratories' Katherine Guzman one of its 2013 Luminary honorees. She received her award Oct. 5 at the 25th Anniversary HENAAC Conference in New Orleans. "This is an incredible honor," said Guzman. "I remember going to the HENAAC awards ceremony as an undergraduate and looking up at the award winners with awe, never imagining that one day I might be considered for such an award."

Plasmonic crystal alters to match light-frequency source

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A plasma-containing crystal, tunable by varying a voltage, could increase the bandwidth of high-speed communication networks and generally enhance high-speed electronics.

Journal: Nature Photonics
Funder: US Department of Energy/Basic Energy Sciences Program

Nanoscale engineering boosts performance of quantum dot light emitting diodes

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Dramatic advances in the field of quantum dot light emitting diodes could come from recent work by the Nanotechnology and Advanced Spectroscopy team at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Journal: Nature Communications
Funder: US Department of Energy's Office of Science

Water for future Mars astronauts?

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Within its first three months on Mars, NASA's Curiosity Rover saw a surprising diversity of soils and sediments along a half-kilometer route that tell a complex story about the gradual desiccation of the Red Planet. Perhaps most notable among findings from the ChemCam team is that all of the dust and fine soil contains small amounts of water.

Journal: Science

Study could help improve nuclear waste repositories

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

Sandia National Laboratories researchers are studying the movement of iodine-129 from spent nuclear fuel through a deep, clay-based geological repository. Understanding that process is crucial as countries worldwide consider underground clay formations for nuclear waste disposal.

Sandia Labs harnessing the sun's energy with tiny particles

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Grant and Award Announcement

Engineers at Sandia National Laboratories, along with partner institutions Georgia Tech, Bucknell University, King Saud University and the German Aerospace Center, are using a falling particle receiver to more efficiently convert the sun's energy to electricity in large-scale, concentrating solar power plants.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Researching new detectors for chemical, biological threats

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

Sandia National Laboratories scientists are building on decades of sensor work to invent tiny detectors that can sniff out everything from explosives and biotoxins to smuggled humans.

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