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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.

ChemCam follows the 'Yellowknife Road' to Martian wet area

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers from Los Alamos National Laboratory and the French Space Agency have tracked a trail of minerals that point to the prior presence of water at the Curiosity rover site on Mars.

Engineering alternative fuel with cyanobacteria

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Sandia National Laboratories Truman Fellow Anne Ruffing has engineered two strains of cyanobacteria to produce free fatty acids, a precursor to liquid fuels, but she has also found that the process cuts the bacteria's production potential. Micro-algal fuels might be one way to reduce the nation's dependence on foreign energy. Such fuels would be renewable since they are powered by sunlight.

Sandia helps DOE bring large-scale solar systems to market

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

Sandia National Laboratories is advancing viable, low-carbon power through collaborating on five U.S. Regional Test Centers where industry can assess the performance, reliability and bankability of large-scale photovoltaic energy systems.

Detecting tunnels using seismic waves not as simple as it sounds

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A Sandia researcher is working to improve the detection of shallow tunnels with the goal of helping find them along the border and other areas where tunnels could pose a threat.

Researchers test novel power system for space travel

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A team of researchers, including engineers from Los Alamos National Laboratory, has demonstrated a new concept for a reliable nuclear reactor that could be used on space flights.

Researchers use shock tube for insight into physics early in blasts

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Sandia National Laboratories researchers are using a unique multiphase shock tube to study the dispersal of densely clustered particles during an explosion.

Traumatic brain injury patients, supercomputer simulations studied to improve helmets

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories and the University of New Mexico are comparing supercomputer simulations of blast waves on the brain with clinical studies of veterans suffering from mild traumatic brain injuries to help improve helmet designs.

Funder: Office of Naval Research

Tiny travelers from deep space could assist in healing Fukushima's nuclear scar

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers from Los Alamos National Laboratory have devised a method to use cosmic rays to gather detailed information from inside the damaged cores of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactors, which were heavily damaged in March 2011 by a tsunami that followed a great earthquake.

Journal: Physical Review Letters

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