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Sandia announces completion of mixed waste landfill cover construction

Sandia announces completion of mixed waste landfill cover construction

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The Environmental Restoration Project at Sandia National Laboratories reports the successful construction of an alternative evapotranspirative cover at the Mixed Waste Landfill (MWL) in September. The 2.6-acre ...


Laser accelerated protons to the highest energies so far

Researchers use trident laser to accelerate protons to record energies

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 10

An international team of physicists at Los Alamos National Laboratory has succeeded in using intense laser light to accelerate protons to energies never before achieved. Using this technique, scientists can ...


Magnetic mixing creates quite a stir

Magnetic mixing creates quite a stir (w/ Video)

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 2

Sandia researchers have developed a process that can mix tiny volumes of liquid, even in complicated spaces.


Science at the petascale: Roadrunner supercomputer results unveiled

Electronics / Hardware

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (10) | comments 0

The world's fastest supercomputer, Roadrunner, at Los Alamos National Laboratory has completed its initial "shakedown" phase doing accelerated petascale computer modeling and simulations of a variety of unclassified, fundamental ...


'Perspectives on Energy Policy' report now available

Technology / Energy

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The United States should create a high-level independent council to analyze and communicate critical issues to energy policymakers and the public, a group of 27 leaders in academia, government, and the private sector recommends ...


Sandia joins forces with Boeing, Caltrans, others on fuel cell-powered mobile lighting application

Developing fuel cell-powered mobile lighting application

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Sandia National Laboratories, with help from The Boeing Company, the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans), and others, is leading an effort to develop a commercially viable, fuel cell-powered ...


Banded rocks reveal early Earth conditions, changes

Banded rocks reveal early Earth conditions, changes

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 11, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (16) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- The strikingly banded rocks scattered across the upper Midwest and elsewhere throughout the world are actually ambassadors from the past, offering clues to the environment of the early Earth ...


Predictive simulation successes on Dawn supercomputer

Predictive simulation successes on Dawn supercomputer

Electronics / Hardware

created Sep 30, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The 500-teraFLOPS Advanced Simulation and Computing program's Sequoia Initial Delivery System (Dawn), an IBM machine of the same lineage as BlueGene/L, has immediately proved itself useful ...


Radiation-Hardened Microelectronics Could Reduce Spacecraft Weight

Radiation-Hardened Microelectronics Could Reduce Spacecraft Weight

Technology / Engineering

created Sep 28, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Space environments can deliver a beating to spacecraft electronics. For decades, satellites and other spacecraft have used bulky and expensive shielding to protect vital microelectronics -- ...


Astrophysicists Move Closer to Understanding the Beauty Behind Stellar Jets

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Sep 28, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Certain stars stream vast amounts of matter into space, creating some of the most beautiful objects in astronomers' telescopes. But while the astronomers can enjoy the beauty, they can't explain it. Adam ...


Computer scientists successfully boot one million Linux kernels as virtual machines

Computer scientists successfully boot one million Linux kernels as virtual machines

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Sep 25, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (22) | comments 8

(PhysOrg.com) -- Computer scientists at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, Calif., have for the first time successfully demonstrated the ability to run more than a million Linux kernels as virtual ...


Cheap, sensitive sensors could detect explosives, toxins in water

Cheap, sensitive sensors could detect explosives, toxins in water

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Sep 24, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A sensitive new Stanford-developed disposable chip detects low concentrations of the explosive trinitrotoluene (TNT) and a close chemical cousin of the dreaded toxic nerve agent sarin in water ...


GTRI Develops New Technologies to Secure Cargo Containers

GTRI Develops New Technologies to Secure Cargo Containers

Technology / Engineering

created Sep 07, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) demonstrated two cargo container security systems at a recent event sponsored by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS).


Return to Sender: MISSE-6 Comes Home After More Than a Year in Space

Return to Sender: MISSE-6 Comes Home After More Than a Year in Space

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Sep 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- It's been eight years since the first Materials International Space Station Experiment, or MISSE, arrived at the orbiting laboratory. During that time, more than 4,000 materials samples have ...


Researcher uses 100,000 degree heat to study plasma

Researcher uses 100,000 degree heat to study plasma

Physics / Plasma Physics

created Sep 02, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Using one of the greatest sources of radiation energy created by man, University of Nevada, Reno researcher and faculty member Roberto Mancini is studying ultra-high temperature and non-equilibrium plasmas ...