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Technology Makes Better Power Plants, Cars and Airplanes

Safer, more-efficient power plants, cars and airplanes will result from self-healing new materials being developed at the Lab.

http://www.lanl.gov/discover/nanolayering_improves_materials

Nanotechnology: Tech, Environment, and Medical Benefits

Los Alamos scientists are creating miniature machines that have cellular characteristics. Capabilities are endless: self-repairing computer chips, removing greenhouse gases,  making human organs self-healing.

http://www.lanl.gov/discover/creating_life_saving_lives

Most Powerful Magnet Helps Create Futuristic Materials

A world-record-breaking magnet is helping scientists create next-generation materials that will help make our buildings greener, our gadgets smaller, and our power and light systems more efficient.

http://www.lanl.gov/discover/world_s_most_powerful_magnet

Studies of Kondo Lattice Boost Energy Efficiency

Tremendous improvements in electricity transmission and storage are on the horizon, thanks to studies of the Kondo lattice, a configuration of electrons that appears in certain super-cooled materials.

http://www.lanl.gov/discover/scaling_the_kondo_lattice

Largest Biological Simulation Improves Medicines

New medicines that save lives by combating drug-resistant bacteria—such as Staph (Staphylococcus aureus) —are just one of the results of the largest biological simulation ever.

http://www.lanl.gov/discover/nanotechnology_discovery_saves_lives
James Maxwell

Cutting-edge innovation captures science "Oscar"
Laser-Weave® technology grows extra-strong fibers at astonishing speeds

Prestigious R&D 100 Award goes to radical technology that will change the insides of toasters to exhaust nozzles in rocket engines, says James Maxwell of Applied Electromagnetics. . .

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