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‘Zombie’ replica cells may outperform live ones as catalysts and conductors
February 7, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — “Zombie” mammalian cells that may function better after they die have been created by researchers at Sandia National Laboratories and the University of New Mexico (UNM). The simple technique coats a cell with a silica solution to form a near-perfect replica of its structure. The process may...
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Sandia probability maps help sniff out food contamination
September 27, 2012 • Uncovering the sources of fresh food contamination could become faster and easier thanks to analysis done at Sandia National Laboratories’ National Infrastructure Simulation and Analysis Center (NISAC). The study, in the International Journal of Critical Infrastructures, demonstrates how developing a probability map of the food supply network using stochastic network...
Categories: Biology, Energy / Environment / Water, Homeland security
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Students painlessly measure knee joint fluids in annual Sandia contest
September 26, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Texas Tech University repeated last year’s victory in the novel design category of Sandia National Laboratories’ annual competition to design new, extraordinarily tiny devices, while Carnegie Mellon University won the educational microelectromechanical (MEMS) prize for the second year in a row. This year’s contest attracted engineering students...
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Sandia shows monitoring brain activity during study can help predict test performance
September 10, 2012 • [caption id="" align="alignright" width="250" caption="Sandia’s Susan Stevens-Adams wears a cap dotted with electroencephalography (EEG) sensors that are injected with gel to make sure they have good contact. EEGs are used as part of a study into memory and memory traini…
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Miniature Sandia sensors may advance climate studies
April 10, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — An air sampler the size of an ear plug is expected to cheaply and easily collect atmospheric samples to improve computer climate models.“We now have an inexpensive tool for collecting pristine vapor samples in the field,” said Sandia National Labora…
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Sandia seeks better neural control of prosthetics for amputees
February 18, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M — Sandia National Laboratories researchers, using off-the-shelf equipment in a chemistry lab, have been working on ways to improve amputees’ control over prosthetics with direct help from their own nervous systems.[caption id="" align="alignright" width=…
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Anthrax-killing foam proves effective in meth lab cleanup
February 16, 2012 • Sandia’s decontamination foam, developed more than a decade ago and used to decontaminate federal office buildings and mailrooms during the 2001 anthrax attacks, is now being used to decontaminate illegal methamphetamine labs. Mark Tucker, a chemical engineer in Sandia’s Chemical & Biological Systems Dept. and co-creator of the original decontamination...
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Sandia’s CANARY software protects water utilities from terrorist attacks and contaminants, boosts quality
July 25, 2011 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Americans are used to drinking from the kitchen tap without fear of harm, even though water utilities might be vulnerable to terrorist attacks or natural contaminants. Now, thanks to CANARY Event Detection Software — an open-source software developed by Sandia National Laboratories in partnership with the Environmental...
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Turning algae into energy
October 7, 2009 • Project converts dairy wastes to energy, other products ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — As part of a project to create alternative sources of energy, researchers at Sandia National Laboratories are cultivating green algae that holds promise as a new supply of biofuel. “People have been growing algae for centuries for food supplements...
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