Sandia National Laboratories is performing a Life Extension Program on the W80-4 nuclear weapon. The Life Extension Program is refurbishing the W80 warhead with replacement components for aging technology and components that have limited lifespans. Much of the work is being done at Sandia's California site.
Established in 2007, the New Mexico State University Physical Science Laboratory’s Unmanned Aircraft Systems Flight Test Center is the first of its kind. In the last eight years, NMSU’s UAS FTC has become the most accomplished and most experienced Federal Aviation Administration-approved UAS test facility in the country. NMSU’s UAS FTC provides direct access to more than 15,000 square miles of airspace, and was the first civil UAS test facility that provided direct, available access to restricted airspace – a must for testing developmental aircraft or multi-aircraft scenarios. In May 2015, the FAA announced that the Alliance for System Safety of UAS through Research Excellence (ASSURE) would operate a new National Center of Excellence for UAS. NMSU is a core member-university on a team, which is comprised of 15 universities and six affiliates. As a core university of ASSURE, NMSU is helping lead the partnership of academic and industry members that will begin a new era of co
An international research team led by scientists at the University of New Mexico Cancer Center discovered and developed a novel ligand peptide-mimic that inhibits abnormal overgrowth of blood vessels in retinal diseases and tumors. The discovery could lead to new drugs that keep cancers from growing. The team published a paper in the journal Science Translational Medicine.
The Turquoise Trail HOG Chapter plans to end its “Pink Your Ride — Motorcyclists Increasing Awareness (MIA)” breast cancer ride at the UNM Cancer Center.
Sandia National Laboratories will lead a new tri-lab consortium to address unsolved scientific challenges in the development of viable solid-state materials for storage of hydrogen onboard vehicles.
Bringing closer a mass market for environmentally friendly hydrogen-powered cars, Sandia researchers are upgrading $0.37/gram molybdenum disulfide, "molly" for short, to take the place of $1,500/gram catalyst platinum. Unlike gasoline, hydrogen as fuel releases water, not carbon, into the air.
To raise awareness of breast cancer, the UNM Lobos, UNM Hospitals and UNM Comprehensive Cancer Center are sponsoring the “Lobos Love Pink” Football game.
A biostatistician played a key role in the development of an online tool that combines both breast density and biopsy results to allow physicians to calculate a woman’s breast cancer risk. It’s the only risk assessment tool that includes BI-RADS breast density, which is used in clinical practice.
Cowboys for Cancer Research and the University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center will continue their 33-year tradition with this year’s annual fundraiser.
Models suggest that when social isolation and coinfection occur together, diseases can spread faster and further than with either effect alone.
Sandia National Laboratories is studying additive manufacturing and its potential for high-consequence applications. Two aspects of that effort are to understand both the properties of newly formed materials and how to design to get just what's needed without over-designing.
NMSU researchers have created a new underwater stimulation system to study electrical activity in certain aquatic animals.
A new chapter in clean energy is starting in Hawaii. At Young Brothers Ltd.’s Port of Honolulu facility, Sandia National Laboratories is leading the Maritime Hydrogen Fuel Cell project to test a hydrogen-fuel-cell-powered generator as an alternative to conventional diesel generators.
Sandia National Laboratories announces a new book, titled "Laboratory Biorisk Management.” It's the first full-length manuscript detailing the implementation of biorisk management principles to improve the safety and security of biosciences labs.
Remote Well Solutions, which produces fully automated, off-grid water pumping systems that allow ranchers to reduce costs related to time, fuel, water and maintenance, is one of 12 companies from around the United States – including three from New Mexico – to be selected for the Village Capital Water US 2015 program. The six-month program aims to support entrepreneurs in addressing global water insecurity issues through technology.
Roy L. Xu, New Mexico State University associate professor of mechanical engineering, discovered a very thin interface bonding material with applications for football helmets to reduce concussions. The material is light and cost-effective to make bulletproof backpacks at a much lower cost than the $300 to $400 range of those currently available.
The first use of biological proteins to maneuver chemical polymers has created nerve-like structures that could serve as a gentler interface between nerves and prosthetic devices.
Sandia National Laboratories and eight other companies and research organizations will collaborate to advance a distributed power system that can produce cleaner, more efficient electricity.
Sandia researchers Todd Lane and Ryan Davis have created a method to recycle phosphate and nitrogen, critical nutrients for algae cultivation. We describe this method as a triple win – saves money in algae cultivation for biofuels, limits competition with agriculture for a nonrenewable resource, and keeps phosphates out of the environment.
Sandia National Laboratories and EyeTracking Inc. are researching software that will help national security analysts get more meaningful information from large data sets in high-stress environments.
The University of New Mexico Cancer Center (UNMCC) has been awarded the highest designation and rating in the United States for cancer treatment and research programs. It has received the National Cancer Institute’s “NCI Comprehensive Cancer Center” designation, identifying it as one of the leading cancer centers in the nation and the only such cancer center in New Mexico.
New Mexico State University researchers are part of a team of scientists with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) that created a new map of the Milky Way that shows nearly a third of the stars have dramatically changed their obits.
A team of scientists at the University of New Mexico Cancer Center published a research paper showing that a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) called ketorolac helped women with ovarian cancer to survive longer.
Sandia National Laboratories and San Francisco-based Red and White Fleet recently signed a cooperative research and development agreement to design, build and operate a high-speed hydrogen fuel cell passenger ferry and hydrogen refueling station. Named SF-BREEZE (San Francisco Bay Renewable Energy Electric vessel with Zero Emissions), the project begins with a feasibility study funded by the Department of Transportation's Maritime Administration.
Are your plants dead or dying? New Mexico State University has an online Plant Diagnostic Clinic that might be able to help. Experts provide advice for homeowners, landscape professionals, nursery retailers and government agencies can find a photographs of plant problems to compare plant conditions.
A premier cancer research partnership at New Mexico State University is not only fostering extensive cancer research activity, it also is developing the next generation of cancer scientists and a new level of outreach, primarily to underserved populations across New Mexico.
It took decades for technology to catch up with the math David Smallwood worked out to control vibration table shakers. Smallwood, a retired Sandia National Laboratories researcher who consults at the labs, knew that shaking in all directions at once was the key to realistic parts testing. Now Sandia is putting the algorithms he developed more than 30 years ago to the test by shaking up nuclear weapon components.
Sandia National Laboratories researchers are studying a antibiotic-resistant pathogen to learn how to better fight it. They have identified several mechanisms bacteria use to share genes and expand their antibiotic resistance.
NMSU PhD student Brian Millsap leads a six year study on Cooper’s Hawks in urban Albuquerque. The study will help the New Mexico Fish and Wildlife Service learn new information on the biology of all raptors.
The brain hidden inside the oldest known Old World monkey skull has been visualized for the first time with the help of two professors and a graduate from New Mexico State University. The ancient monkey, known scientifically as Victoriapithecus, first made headlines in 1997 when its fossilized skull was discovered on an island in Kenya’s Lake Victoria, where it lived 15 million years ago by NMSU anthropology professors Brenda Benefit and Monte McCrossin.
Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories are working to lower the cost of solar energy systems and improve efficiencies in a big way, thanks to a system of small particles.
To hasten the day of low-cost, high-yield fusion reactions for energy purposes, a two-year, $3.8 million award received by Sandia National Laboratories and the University of Rochester’s Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE) will be used to 'smooth' laser beams for the promising fusion technique called MagLIF.
Experiments at the Z machine at Sandia National Laboratories has provided data may help explain why Saturn is two billion years younger than Jupiter on some computer simulations, supporting a prediction first made in 1935.
New Mexico is following the nation in the demand for locally-grown fruits and vegetables. New Mexico State University is working with small-acreage farmers around the state to meet the demand. At a recent vegetable-farming workshop in Albuquerque, 90 percent of attendees farmed 10 acres or less and 75 percent had farmed for less than 10 years.
Monte Shaheen, MD, and colleagues from around the country recently published a paper in the New England Journal of Medicine about a promising new treatment for melanoma.
Jill M. Hruby today was named the next president and director of Sandia National Laboratories. She will be the first woman to lead a national security laboratory when she steps into her new role July 17.
Immo Hansen, an associate professor at New Mexico State University, received $100,000 Grand Challenges Exploration grant funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for his project to develop SkitoSnack, an alternative meal for mosquitoes, to meet a critical need for researchers trying to stop the spread of the disease-carrying insect
Sandia National Laboratories has developed a fog chamber — one of the world’s largest — that meets the needs of the military, other government agencies and industry. The 180-foot long chamber provides a controlled-fog environment for security camera and sensor testing.
New research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has provided a major boost for the prostate cancer field by uncovering an unprecedented mechanism for developing cancer.
A research paper published in The Lancet Oncology showed that a single dose of the human papillomavirus vaccine Cervarix® may prevent HPV-related cervical cancer.
Anita Kinney, PhD, RN, at the University of New Mexico Cancer Center, has been elected to the National Cancer Institute’s Cancer Care Delivery Research Steering Committee. The newly formed committee will guide nationwide research that studies how people get their cancer care and how well they fare as a result of it.
RAPTOR, a turbulent combustion code developed by CRF 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 Energy program located at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility. It is focused on optimizing computer codes for the next generation of supercomputers.
Shawnia Ryan, MS, CGC is the second certified cancer genetic counselor in the state of New Mexico. She helps people make sense of the statistics and genetic information to answer their personal cancer genetic questions.
Sandia National Laboratories researchers have made the first measurements of thermoelectric behavior by a nanoporous metal-organic framework (MOF), a development that could lead to an entirely new class of materials for such applications as cooling computer chips and cameras and energy harvesting.
Sandia National Laboratories researcher Christopher Kliewer has won a $2.5 million, five-year Early Career Research Program award from the Department of Energy’s Office of Science for his fundamental science proposal to develop new optical diagnostic tools to study interfacial combustion interactions that are major sources of pollution and vehicle inefficiency.
New Mexico State University is a core member-university on a team that will operate a new Federal Aviation Administration National Center of Excellence for Unmanned Aircraft Systems. The Alliance for System Safety of UAS through Research Excellence (ASSURE) would operate the new center.
An enzyme drug can remove asparagine, an essential nutrient for some cancers, but it also degrades glutamine, necessary for all human cells. But an induced mutation in the drug permits it to reduce asparagine without affecting glutamine. Mouse tests now; human tests next.
Sandia National Laboratories has successfully completed a three-test series using its cannon-like Davis gun.
In a new study, researchers used anonymized cell phone data to assess the feasibility of electrification options for rural communities in Senegal, demonstrating a potentially valuable approach to using data to solve problems of development.
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