Most new patents are combinations of existing ideas and pretty much always have been, even as the stream of fundamentally new core technologies has slowed, according to a new study led by Santa Fe Institute researchers.
Dispersal and adaptation are two evolutionary strategies available to species given an environment. Generalists, like dandelions, send their offspring far and wide. Specialists, like alpine flowers, adapt to the conditions of a particular place. New research models the interplay between these two strategies and shows how even minor changes in an environment can create feedback and trigger dramatic shifts in evolutionary strategy.
NMSU Associate Professor Brad Shuster is the recipient of two grants totaling more than $1.2 million.
Transportation accidents, such as trucks crashing on a highway or rockets failing on a launch pad, can create catastrophic fires. Sandia National Laboratories researchers have developed 3-D measurement techniques based on digital in-line holography because it’s important to understand how burning droplets of fuel are generated and behave in such extreme cases.
A new study from the Santa Fe Institute confirms quantitatively that partisan disagreements in the U.S. Congress are worsening and that polarization is harmful to policy innovation.
The pain Anne Holmes felt in her arm was actually kidney cancer that had spread. She joined a phase 3 clinical trial that recently opened at the UNM Cancer Center. The trial tests a new approach that strips the invisibility cloak from spreading kidney cancer cells; it will use Holmes' own cells to create a vaccine tailored for her cancer cells.
The University of New Mexico Cancer Center enrolled its first patient in a phase 3 clinical trial that uses a person’s own kidney cancer cells to make a vaccine tailored to kill those cells.
The American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine celebrated the outstanding work of 44 physicians throughout the country who practice palliative medicine. Esmé Finlay, MD, at the University of New Mexico Cancer Center is one of them.
New research by Santa Fe Institute scientists reveals a surprising insight: publicly-traded firms die off at the same rate regardless of their age or economic sector.
Sandia National Laboratories has begun making silicon wafers for three nuclear weapon modernization programs, the largest production series in the history of its Microsystems and Engineering Sciences Applications complex.
Technologies developed in Sandia’s biosciences program could soon find their way into doctors’ offices. At a recent seminar for potential investors and licensees, Sandia bioscientists presented eight ready-to-license technologies in three key areas: medical diagnostics, biosurveillance and therapeutics and drug discovery.
This week the Explosive Destruction System, designed by Sandia for the U.S. Army, began safely destroying stockpile chemical munitions. The project to destroy 560 chemical munitions at the U.S. Army Pueblo Chemical Depot with EDS is a prelude to a much larger operation to destroy the stockpile of 780,000 munitions containing 2,600 tons of mustard agent.
Experiments at Z at pressures equalling when worlds collide show that iron vaporizes at far lower pressures than its theoretical value , explaining for the first time iron's widespread distribution in Earth's mantle.
Wei Tang, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at New Mexico State University, is taking a cue from nature to devise the next generation of integrated low-power, wearable micro-devices.
A provisionally patented technology from an NMSU researcher could revolutionize carbon dioxide capture and help significantly reduce pollution worldwide.
The architecture and design of NMSU's Center for the Arts was highlighted in the January issue of College Planning and Management magazine.
Despite notable differences in appearance and governance, ancient human settlements function in much the same way as modern cities, according to new findings by researchers at the Santa Fe Institute and the University of Colorado Boulder.
A statistical technique that sorts out when changes to words’ pronunciations most likely occurred in the evolution of a language offers a renewed opportunity to trace words and languages back to their earliest common ancestor or ancestors.
Established in 1991, the Carlsbad Environmental Monitoring and Research Center has operated an independent environmental monitoring program for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant to detect for exposure to radioactive materials.
The goal of the “Art of Systems Biology and Nanoscience” annual event in Santa Fe is to share stunning scientific images of nature with the public.
The annual "Hoops 4 Hope" basketball game pits the New Mexico Senate "Lobos" against the House "Aggies" to raise money for the UNM Cancer Center.
Sandia National Laboratories researchers are the first to directly measure hydroperoxyalkyl radicals — a class of reactive molecules denoted as “QOOH” — that are key in the chain of reactions that controls the early stages of combustion. This breakthrough has generated data on QOOH reaction rates and outcomes that will improve the fidelity of models used by engine manufacturers to create cleaner and more efficient cars and trucks. A paper describing the work, performed by David Osborn, Ewa Papajak, John Savee, Craig Taatjes and Judit Zádor at Sandia’s Combustion Research Facility, is featured in the Feb. 6 edition of Science.
Researchers at NMSU are seeking donations to fund a project that could help estimate the population of Mexican wolves in the country in a way that is faster, cheaper and more accurate than the current method of tracking.
Sandia National Laboratories researchers have developed a single electroforming technique that tailored key factors to better thermoelectric performance: crystal orientation, crystal size and alloy uniformity. The work is outlined in a paper, “Using Galvanostatic Electroforming of Bi1-xSbx Nanowires to Control Composition, Crystallinity and Orientation,” in MRS Bulletin.
Las Cruces based astronomers have been contributing to a suite of experiments that includes studies of Milky Way stars.
Angela Wandinger-Ness, PhD, will use a NCI-CURE grant to include underrepresented minority high school students in the UNM STEM education pipeline.
An initiative at NMSU is underway to ensure that research processes are examined and changed to allow the researchers to spend as much time conducting research.
The Spiritual Center, a new facility available for weddings, memorial services and peaceful meditation regardless of faith, is now open at the Las Cruces campus.
The UNM Women’s Basketball team will generously pay tribute to the courageous women battling breast cancer in our state as they have year after year.
Richard Lauer, MD, FACP and Melanie Royce, MD, PhD, both at the University of New Mexico Cancer Center, were recently named to national task forces under the NCI’s new clinical trials structure, the National Clinical Trials Network.
The journal "Science" features a paper about mosquito DNA co-authored by 120 scientists from around the world, including a Las Cruces professor and student.
Faculty and staff were honored Dec. 4 for improving the quality of their online courses during the Instructional Innovation and Quality recognition and awards celebration.
Creating the conditions of the sun, researchers for the first time have been able to experimentally revise figures used by theorists to define iron's key role in passing sunlight from the sun's core to its radiative surface.
The Communication Studies Graduate Student Association in the College of Arts and Sciences organized a book drive that helped collect more than 600 books and magazines for a library at Jardin de los Ninos.
Researchers at Sandia and Argonne national laboratories have demonstrated, for the first time, a method to successfully predict pressure-dependent chemical reaction rates. It’s an important breakthrough in combustion and atmospheric chemistry that is expected to benefit auto and engine manufacturers, oil and gas utilities and other industries that employ combustion models.
Researchers in Las Cruces, NM, are exploring unconventional ways to encourage shoppers to purchase more fresh fruit and vegetables.
Sandia National Laboratories is tackling one of the biggest barriers to the use of robots in emergency response: energy efficiency. Through a project supported by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Sandia is developing technology that will dramatically improve the endurance of legged robots, helping them operate for long periods while performing the types of locomotion most relevant to disaster response scenarios.
David Krakauer, an evolutionary theorist and director of the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has been selected as the Santa Fe Institute’s next president. He plans to join the Institute on August 1, 2015.
Sandia National Laboratories and industrial gas giant Linde LLC have signed an umbrella Cooperative Research & Development Agreement (CRADA) that is expected to accelerate the development of low-carbon energy and industrial technologies, beginning with hydrogen and fuel cells.
More than 200 researchers, including a Las Cruces professor, are part of an international collaboration in sequencing DNA for all major groups of birds.
Wildlife professor Gary Roemer and guests will hold a workshop Dec. 17-18 at the Pete V. Domenici Hall to address how landscape genetics can be used to understand the genetic structure of golden eagles.
Researchers have studied radiation effects since the early days of nuclear weapons. But a 30-year program Sandia National Laboratories began in 2006 will provide real-time data for the first time on how electronics age within the weapon.
Large-scale storage of low-pressure, gaseous hydrogen in salt caverns and other underground sites for transportation fuel and grid-scale energy applications offers several advantages over above-ground storage, says a recent Sandia National Laboratories study sponsored by the Department of Energy’s Fuel Cell Technologies Office.
Near-perfect replications of human and animal cells enables improved study of certain cancers and stem cells, as well as the creation of complex durable objects without machinery.
Michelle Ozbun, PhD, at the University of New Mexico Cancer Center, is improving a program that helps new scientists learn nuances of conducting science. Using a 3-year $360,000 Institutional Research grant from the American Cancer Society, the program not only distributes the funds in several $30,000 grants each year but also helps the grant awardees to manage their research. Dr. Ozbun recently won a renewal of the grant, marking the eighth time that the UNM Cancer Center has done so.
A College of Business researcher is studying how Native American tribal values can be applied in today's business world.
Since 1993 New Mexico State University has helped change the lives of students in the state through the New Mexico Alliance for Minority Participation.
A professor of Urban Entomology is interested in researching urban pests that most affect people’s everyday lives including house flies.
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