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Simple Computer Models Unravel Genetic Stress Reactions in Cells
Integrated biological and computational methods provide insight into why genes are activated. - 2/8/13
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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- New process speeds conversion of biomass to fuels Scientists made a major step forward recently towards transforming biomass-derived molecules into fuels. February 7, 2013
- Funding available for New Mexico businesses The Venture Acceleration Fund of Los Alamos National Security, LLC is accepting applications for the 2013 calendar year. February 6, 2013
- World War II role of Oak Ridge National Lab featured in second 70th anniversary lecture Talk by Ray Smith about that laboratory’s role during World War II and the shared national security mission with Los Alamos that continues today.February 4, 2013
- ChemCam follows the ‘Yellowknife Road’ to Martian wet area Researchers have tracked a trail of minerals that point to the prior presence of water at the Curiosity rover site on Mars.January 15, 2013
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