Los Alamos Keeps An Eye on the Environment: Monitoring Birds, Bees, Flowers, Trees
and More
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) researcher Phil Fresquez's work often keeps him and his team out in the wild and down on the farm. Fresquez, of the Environmental Data and Analysis group, has been at LANL for nearly two decades. During those years, he and coworkers have kept a close eye on the northern New Mexico region, making sure LANL remains a good neighbor and steward of the environment.
Long-Sought Protein Structure May Help Reveal How "Gene Switch" Works
The bacterium behind one of mankind's deadliest scourges, tuberculosis, is helping researchers at the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) move closer to answering the decades-old question of what controls the switching on and off of genes that carry out all of life's functions.
NASA Stennis Partners with Mississippi for Geospatial Tech Industry Cluster
The NASA John C. Stennis Space Center (SSC) Innovative Partnerships Program (IPP) Office (and its predecessors) has worked in partnership with the Mississippi Enterprise for Technology, Inc. (MsET), a 501(c) 3 company, since its establishment in 1994 in supporting technology maturation and technology transfer and application for economic development in Mississippi.
NASA and California Institute of Technology Test Steep-Terrain Rover
Engineers from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and students at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have designed and tested a versatile, low-mass robot that can rappel off cliffs, travel nimbly over steep and rocky terrain, and explore deep craters.
Sandia's Diamond-like Films Onboard NASA Satellite
Diamond-like carbon films created at Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) are helping probe the far boundaries of the solar system as part of a NASA mission to study how the sun's solar wind interacts with the interstellar mediumthe matter that exists between the stars within a galaxy.
Wu and Liu Awarded AFOSR Grant for Media Forensics
Institute for Systems Research (ISR)-affiliated Associate Professor Min Wu is the co-principal investigator (PI) for a three-year grant from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) for theories and algorithms to perform nonintrusive forensic analysis on multimedia devices and digital content. Former ISR faculty member K.J. Ray Liu is the other PI.
Lab in the Spotlight: National Energy Technology Laboratory
The National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) is one of the Department of Energy's (DOE) national laboratories. NETL is the only government-owned/government-operated national lab dedicated to energy RD&D from domestic energy resources. In addition to its diverse energy research and development expertise, NETL is experienced in contract and project management, analysis of energy systems, and international energy issues.
i-Tree: Measuring the Urban Forest
The U.S. Forest Service has developed a set of free and easy-to-use software programs and protocols (together called i-Tree) that help urban foresters measure and understand their forest resources.
NIH Cancer Treatment
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases inventors David Dorward, Vinod Nair, and Elizabeth Fischer have developed an advanced process for microwave-assisted freeze substitution of biological and biomedical samples (MWFS).
Passive Cooling System for a Vehicle
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) researchers Terry Joseph Hendricks and Thomas Thoensen have developed a passive cooling system for a vehicle that transfers heat from an overheated internal component, for example, an instrument panel, to an external portion of the vehicle, for example, a side body panel.
PNNL Subsurface Modeling
A software tool developed at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) over the past 16 years provides multidimensional modeling of subsurface flow and reactive transport phenomena for a growing list of applications of importance to the nation.