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Turning ubiquitous lignin into high-value chemicals

September 16, 2016 • [caption id="" align="alignright" width="250"] Sandia National Laboratories researchers Arul Varman, left, and Seema Singh, who is the principal investigator, are part of a team that mapped the metabolic pathway of a bacteria that lives solely off lignin. The breakthrough, p…
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Sandia researchers discover mechanism for Rift Valley fever virus infection

June 16, 2016 • [caption id="" align="alignright" width="250"] Brooke Harmon, a virologist at Sandia National Laboratories, led research that found a cellular pathway for Rift Valley fever virus infection, the first step in developing treatment for the  highly infectious deadly disease. (P…
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High school girls recognized for math, science accomplishments

June 7, 2016 • [caption id="" align="alignright" width="250"] Celeste Rohlfing, chief operating officer at the American Association for the Advancement of Science, congratulates Audrey Kurz, a student at Livermore Valley Charter Preparatory, for her outstanding achievement in math. Rohlfin…

Livermore educators win Sandia Excellence in Teaching awards

May 18, 2016 • [caption id="" align="alignright" width="250"] Transitional kindergarten teacher Heather Dion received a Sandia National Laboratories Excellence in Teaching Award for her innovative use of technology in her classroom. (Photo courtesy of Livermore Valley Joint Unified School …
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Sandia’s California site invites community to 60th anniversary celebration

May 11, 2016, Media Advisory • LIVERMORE, Calif. –Sixty years ago, the Giants played baseball in New York and the Athletics in Kansas City, Dwight Eisenhower was president and Sandia National Laboratories opened its California site in the city of Livermore, which at the time had a population of under 10…

Lighting up disease-carrying mosquitoes

March 21, 2016 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Mosquitoes are deadly efficient at spreading disease. Despite vaccines and efforts to eradicate the pesky insects, they continue to infect humans with feared diseases like Zika virus, malaria and West Nile virus.[caption id="" align="alignright" width="…
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RAPTOR turbulent combustion code selected for next-gen supercomputer readiness project

May 27, 2015 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — RAPTOR, a turbulent combustion code developed bySandia National Laboratories mechanical engineer Joseph Oefelein, was selected as one of 13 partnership projects for the Center for Accelerated Application Readiness (CAAR).CAAR is a U.S. Department of Ene…
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Carbon sequestration research continues at Sandia Labs under Energy Department funds

September 15, 2014 • [caption id="" align="alignright" width="250"] The Center for Frontiers of Subsurface Energy Security, a project between Sandia National Laboratories and the University of Texas, Austin, the lead partner, studies the long-term geologic sequestration of carbon. (Graphic court…

Watching neurons fire from a front-row seat

July 28, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — They are with us every moment of every day, controlling every action we make, from the breath we breathe to the words we speak, and yet there is still a lot we don’t know about the cells that make up our nervous systems. When things go awry...

Survivor: Sandia ensures US nuclear weapons deterrent can remain effective, credible

July 22, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — It may sound strange to say that nuclear weapons must survive radiation. But as part of its mission of ensuring the nation’s stockpile is safe, secure and effective as a deterrent, Sandia National Laboratories must make sure crucial parts can function…

Novel nanoparticle production method could lead to better lights, lenses, solar cells

June 17, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories has come up with an inexpensive way to synthesize titanium-dioxide nanoparticles and is seeking partners who can demonstrate the process at industrial scale for everything from solar cells to light-emitting diodes (LEDs).Tit…
Sandia National Laboratories researchers Dale Huber, left, and Todd Monson have come up with an inexpensive way to synthesize titanium-dioxide nanoparticles, which could be used in everything from solar cells to light-emitting diodes.

Wind tunnel tests support improved aerodynamic design of B61-12 bomb

April 14, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories has finished eight days of testing a full-scale mock unit representing the aerodynamic characteristics of the B61-12 gravity bomb in a wind tunnel.The tests on the mock-up were done to establish the configuration that will d…
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