Science Feature Stories
Mars rover depends on three LANL technologies
Curiosity zaps Mars for vital signs: Designed by Lab team, ChemCam looks for crucial elements such as carbon, nitrogen and oxygen - 7/30/12
Weapons assessment efficiencies through use of nondestructive laser gas sampling
Nondestructive laser welding process far less expensive, no underground testing. - 6/8/12
SimTable key tool for preparing, responding to wildfire
Camera tracks movement and objects and project them onto a sand table. - 5/30/12
Nuclear magnetic resonance offers new insights into Pu 239
Fingerprint of element found by LANL/Japanese team. - 5/29/12
After the Big Bang: Theory suggests first planets formed after first generations of stars
The researchers' calculations predict properties of first planet and timeline for life. - 5/3/12
Mastering the art of plutonium pit production to ensure national security
For 19 years, the U.S. was the only nuclear superpower unable to build a pit and put it in a stockpile. That ended in 2007. - 4/24/12
DREAM tool increases space weather predictions
Model addresses radiation hazards of the space environment on space systems. - 4/13/12
Cancer-fighting treatment gets boost from Isotope Production Facility
New capability expands existing program, creates treatment product in quantity. - 4/13/12
Medical treatments, fuel sources from studying elusive enzyme
Enzyme has potential to aid in treatment of peptic ulcers, acid reflux disease, or conversion of woody waste into transportation fuels. - 4/3/12
Unraveling the mystery of quantum-dot blinking
Research enhances single particle tracking, allows novel light-emitting diodes, and boosts development of new solar cells. - 4/3/12
Vanadium catalysts break down biomass into useful components
Breaking down biomass could help in converting biomass to fuels. - 3/26/12
Strongest non-destructive magnetic field: world record set at 100-tesla level
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory magnet achieved a whopping 100.75 tesla—the 100-tesla level is roughly equivalent to 2 million times Earth's magnetic field. - 3/22/12
Hydrogen fuel closer to reality because of storage advances
Advances made in rechargeable solid hydrogen fuel storage tanks. - 3/21/12
Questions about how plants die leads to climate change answers
Understanding mechanisms of mortality will provide important input to future climate forecasts. - 3/12/12
Discovery of oxygen in atmosphere could mean life for Saturn’s moon Dione
Discovery could mean ingredients for life are abundant on icy space bodies. - 3/5/12
Southwest U.S. undergoes megadroughts lasting hundreds of years
Sediment core 260-feet long peers back in climatological time. - 2/28/12
Light-emitting nanocrystal diodes go ultraviolet
Biomedical devices with active components could be made from nanostructured systems. - 2/24/12
Antimicrobial protein protects grapevines from pathogen
Engineered grapevines produce a hybrid antimicrobial protein to block infection. - 2/21/12
New insight into viral factors that facilitate HIV transmission
Understanding viral factors that facilitate transmission of HIV infection is critical to developing vaccines. - 2/14/12
Smartphone data safety with quantum cryptography
Laws of quantum physics and information theory ensure that smartphones with QKarD could never be compromised. - 1/20/12
Global health response more accurate with automated influenza surveillance
Public health officials will be able to determine whether an outbreak of an infectious disease comes from a pandemic strain or one less virulent. - 1/31/11
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