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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="…

Categories: Biology, Bioscience / Medical Research

Topics: Analytical Chemistry, chikungunya virus, disease-carrying mosquito, Ebola, mosquito, Sandia National Laboratories, West Nile virus, Zika

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…

Categories: Awards, Transportation

Topics: Center for Accelerated Application Readiness, Joseph Oefelein, Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, Sandia, Sandia National Laboratories, supercomputer, turbulent combustion

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…

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: caprock, carbon sequestration, CO2, Department of Energy, DOE, Energy Frontier Research Center, greenhouse gas, Sandia National Laboratories

3-D codes yield unprecedented physics, engineering insights

August 4, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — When the space shuttle Columbia disintegrated on re-entry in 2002, sophisticated computer models were key to determining what happened.A piece of foam flew off at launch and hit a tile, damaging the leading edge of the shuttle wing and exposing the unde…

Categories: Computing, Space / Astronomy

Topics: 3-D code, computer codes, DSMC, Open source, Sandia National Laboratories, SPARTA

Sandia National Laboratories researchers Steve Plimpton, left, and Michael Gallis look at a projection of a model of the Russian MIR space station, which fell out of orbit several years ago and disintegrated, with the remains ending up at the bottom of the Indian Ocean. Using Sandia's 3-D code SPARTA, the calculation is simulating an instance of the process of de-orbiting.

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...

Categories: Bioscience / Medical Research, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: brain, MESA, microscale, Microsystems and Engineering Sciences Applications, neural probe, neurons, Sandia National Laboratories

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…

Categories: Computing, Nuclear Weapons, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: modeling, neutron damage, nuclear weapons, QASPR, Sandia National Laboratories, Sandia Pulsed Reactor

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…

Categories: Nanotechnology, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: commercial partner, LEDs, nanoparticles, Sandia National Laboratories, Science and Technology Showcase, solar cells, titanium dioxide

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…

Categories: Nuclear Weapons

Topics: Air Force, B61, nuclear, nuclear weapons, Sandia National Laboratories, stockpile, wind tunnel test

Shape-shifting alloys hold promise

August 27, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Imagine untwisting a finger-size spring, then holding the flame from a lighter underneath the unraveled section. Like magic, it twirls itself into a spring again because the metal alloy remembered its original shape.Sandia National Laboratories research…

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: materials science, Sandia National Laboratories, weapons components

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