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Alloy developed at Sandia National Laboratories has potential for electronics in wells

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

An alloy that may improve high-temperature electronics in oil, gas and geothermal wells fills a unique niche.

ChemCam data abundant at Planetary Conference

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Members of the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover ChemCam team will present more than two dozen posters and talks next week during the 44th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in The Woodlands, Texas.

Meeting: 44th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference

Mysterious electron stash found hidden among Van Allen belts

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

US researchers, including a trio from Los Alamos National Laboratory, have witnessed the mysterious appearance of a relatively long-lived zone of high-energy electrons stored between Earth's Van Allen radiation belts.

Journal: Science

Report spotlights Sandia's impact on economy

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

Sandia National Laboratories spent roughly $900 million on goods and services in fiscal year 2012 and New Mexico businesses were awarded more than $400 million, or 45 percent, of the total, according to the labs' latest economic impact report.

Disabled kids inspire musical instrument anyone can play

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

A Taos, N.M., musician, working with a Sandia National Laboratories scientist, has created a way for people to make music without the kind of physical skill it normally takes to play an instrument.

Cool Earth Solar and Sandia team up in first-ever public-private partnership on Open Campus

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

In a public-private partnership that takes full advantage of the Livermore Valley Open Campus for the first time, Sandia National Laboratories and Cool Earth Solar have signed an agreement that could make solar energy more affordable and accessible.

Computer modeling reveals how surprisingly potent hepatitis C drug works

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A study by researchers from Los Alamos National Laboratory and a multinational team reveals how daclatasvir, a direct-acting antiviral agent in development for the treatment of hepatitis C virus (HCV), targets one of its proteins and causes the fastest viral decline ever seen with anti-HCV drugs -- within 12 hours of treatment.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Funder: University of Illinois Walter Payton Liver Center Guild, National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health

Quantum cryptography put to work for electric grid security

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A Los Alamos National Laboratory quantum cryptography team successfully completed the first-ever demonstration of securing control data for electric grids using quantum cryptography.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Study rebuts hypothesis that comet attacks ended 9,000-year-old Clovis culture

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Comet explosions and asteroid impacts could not have ended 9,000-year-old Clovis culture, study contends.

Sandia airborne pods seek to trace nuclear bomb's origins

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

If a nuclear device were to unexpectedly detonate anywhere on Earth, the ensuing effort to find out who made the weapon probably would be led by aircraft rapidly collecting airborne radioactive particles for analysis.

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