For three days last May, scientists at the Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology watched as the solar wind all but disappeared.
A wildfire chemistry model being developed by scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory will track the processes that can result in firefighters with compromised respiratory systems, air pollution visible for hundreds of miles, and erosion of the planet's ozone layer.
Scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory hope the controlled crash of NASA's Lunar Prospector spacecraft into the moon Saturday will provide final proof for what they believe they have already measured: the presence of frozen water on the moon.
Scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory have discovered a new method for rapidly analyzing proteins.
In a step toward finding alternatives to conventional engines, Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists have developed a remarkably simple, energy-efficient engine with no moving parts.
Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory have developed an ultracapacitor with the ability to deliver millions of discharge cycles. This development has the potential to impact nearly every domain of electrical energy use, from transportation to communications and computing.
In a world where scientists have traditionally remained behind the lines that delineate disciplines there are researchers who are able to look beyond their own expertise into the worlds of others and in doing so make exciting connections. Geoffrey West, a theoretical high energy physicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, is one such researcher.
Although it seems we live in a "classical" world, truth is we live in a quantum mechanical world. Decoherence, though, keeps us out of a world ruled by quantum conundrums.
Electronic publishing system will soon supercede traditional, hide-bound, printed scientific journals.
Proteins are helping physicists understand more about complxity, and complexity is helping biologists understand more about proteins.
Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory have shown that enlarging the ends of short fibers used in composite materials simultaneously increases the overall toughness and strength of the material.
As the Team RE/MAX Global Balloon Flight circles the globe in coming weeks it will carry a science payload -- special video and gamma ray detection instruments -- designed by scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory and NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center.
In recent years, the phenomenon called El Nino has been blamed or, less frequently, praised for all sorts of weather-caused problems and conditions. But despite all the attention, not much is known about its cause.
Nitrates, wastes typically generated in the mining, chemical, farming and nuclear power industries and during weapons production, are toxic to both humans and the environment. Reducing or eliminating nitrates once they enter the groundwater is problematic at best.
LANL researchers currently are testing new microdrilling technology that may revolutionize the way underground resource exploration is carried out in the 21st century, at greatly reduced cost.
Storms over the oceans generate more lightning than previously realized, and researchers may be able to use this finding in studies of atmospheric energy distribution mechanisms linked to climate and weather effects.
Scientists are gaining new insights into the electrodynamic processes surrounding lightning by examining measurements of more than two million individual lightning strokes recorded by a sophisticted radio receiver aboard the FORTE satellite.
As a result of drought, the transition zone between two ecosystems moved by two kilometers in less than five years, the fastest climate- induced boundary shift ever documented, scientists reported today.
Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory are measuring nonlinear properties of materials to demonstrate a difference between damaged and undamaged concrete.
Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory have developed a trio of sampling tools capable of extracting liquid, gas or powder samples from sealed containers and permanently sealing the point of entry -- all within a matter of seconds and without exposing people to the contents inside.
Researchers have stolen a page from Mother Nature to develop a technique for detecting the toxin that causes cholera. The technique should work equally well at detecing other protein-based toxins potentially used in biowarfare or terrorism and at detecting early signs of infection in clinical settings.
A technology demonstration for separating the plutonium components from surplus nuclear weapons received a green light from the Department of Energy last week and is now underway at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Los Alamos National Laboratory recently awarded license rights to a start-up company from Austin, Texas, to develop a suite of noninvasive medical diagnostic tools based on Los Alamos' swept-frequency acoustic interferometry technology.
Los Alamos National Laboratory will build a half-mile-long linear accelerator for the Spallaton Neutron Source, a $1.3 billion facility that will produce the most intense pulsed neutron beam in the world.
To help cities cope with disasters, the Urban Security Initiative links a wide range of urban subsystems -- including transportation, energy distribution, weather, infrastructure damage, water distribution, ecosystems, economic activities, geology and demographics -- into an integrated system that takes advantage of the Lab's high-performance computing capability.
Scientists at the Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory have achieved a significant advance in demonstrating the viability of an unbreakable encryption scheme for transmitting communications to and from satellites.
A team of planetary scientists and physicists has identified a tiny, unexplained sunward acceleration in the motions of the Pioneer 10, 11 and Ulysses spacecraft. The anomalous acceleration was identified after detailed analyses of radio data from the spacecraft.
LANL scientists recently received a $120,000 grant from NASA to use Laboratory space insrument design and manufacturing expertise and test critical components of an instrument that may lead to a final product for use on a future mission to the Jupiter moon Europa
Pollutant-eating bacteria have been adapted to create a set of live bacterial biosensors that detect and signal the presence of phenol pollution. Identification system that allows "friends" to recognize each other. Facility where researchers grow single crystals.
Scientists have manipulated the atomic spin of molecules to demonstrate that reliable calculations can be made by a quantum computer. Researchers report on the first experimental use of quantum error correction and demonstrate a three-bit quantum computing system.
Refined calculations of lunar water amounts and unique lunar compositional maps appeared today in the journal Science as part of the first publications of detailed analyses of data returned from NASA's Lunar Prospector mission.
Officials commissioned a 60-tesla pulsed-field magnet, the most powerful in the world, at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Part of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, the 60-tesla magnet has already made breakthrough measurements for materials scientists.
A new database introduced by Los Alamos will help scientists worldwide track and understand how the flu bug mutates and will aid in the development of new vaccines.
Supercritical carbon dioxide can remove the photoresists from electronic chips, giving manufacturers a potential tool that's environmentally benign and uses less water.
Researchers linked 68 high-end personal computers to run in parallel and for only $150,000 created a machine that ranks among the top 500 computers around the world.
Molecular dynamics simulations are now sufficiently advanced they can provide serious guidance to experimenters.
Three tips from Los Alamos: 1."Frag bag" for bomb squads contains small explosives. 2. Ultrasonic analysis of drop-sized samples. 3. Improvements to power of free-electron laser.
Three tips from Los Alamos: 1. Better spectral anlysis of impurities in steel. 2. Radiation detector takes tour of Iraqi palace. 3. Membranes that signal breaches.
A pioneering satellite called ALEXIS -- sporting six wide-field telescopes for studying celestial extreme ultraviolet emissions -- marks in fifth anniversary April 25. Originally feared lost after it was launched, the robust craft has provided more than four years of productive observations of the EUV sky. An onboard radio experiment also has provided the first-reported detections of powerful atmospheric bursts whose origin remains a mystery.
Researchers today unveiled a new medical instrument that will help physicians assess patients with brain injuries and diseases and even help solve the mysteries of how the brain works. It is scheduled for clinical trials in the near future.
US and Russian scientists have teamed up to provide a needed radioisotope used in heart-imaging procedures.
Researchers have embarked on fabricating multi-layer assemblies that they hope will capture the sun's energy for useful purposes much as the process of photosynthesis does in plants.
Scientists have demonstrated another essential step toward building a computer based on the quantum mechanical behavior of elementary particles and say they may be able to perform simple calculations in a couple of years.
Scientists have linked a powerful magnet to the neutron scattering facility at Los Alamos for a new tool for investigating material properties.
Three tips from Los Alamos 1) A textbook for quantum computing. 2) New materials for future space mission detectors. 3) Shake the ground to squeeze out all the oil.
A controlled burn near Kennedy Space Center in Florida is providing scientists with data for improving a computer model that aims to predict the course of wildfires in realtime, providing a tool for fire fighters and fire prevention efforts.
Scientists have advanced standard PCR DNA analysis to enable them to identify different strains of pathogens from tiny, and in some cases many-years-old, tissue samples, providing a new tool for identifying sources of outbreaks.
Four tips: * An easy "green" path to methanol production * Nuclear rocket for a quick boost to Mars * ACE measures upstream solar flow * Ulysses provides unique look at sun
Working from his basement lab, a Los Alamos, N.M., scientist has created a miniature fuel cell that can run on common alcohol and air to generate electricity for powering cellular phones and other common portable electronic devices.
Astronomers have found a fast-spinning pulsar in a companion galaxy to our Milky Way that could be the missing evolutionary link.
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