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.
Analytical Chemistry
Mar 21, 2016
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Components housed in stainless steel for protection against extreme environments seen in the aerospace and defense industries require paths for electricity to power them and communicate with them. Those paths in turn need ...
Condensed Matter
Mar 2, 2016
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A unique filtering technology that combines light and sound waves on a single chip is expected to better detect radar and communications frequencies.
Optics & Photonics
Jan 12, 2016
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A new Sandia National Laboratories accelerator called Thor is expected to be 40 times more efficient than Sandia's Z machine, the world's largest and most powerful pulsed-power accelerator, in generating pressures to study ...
General Physics
Jan 5, 2016
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Sandia National Laboratories researchers seeking to make hydrogen a less expensive fuel for cars have upgraded a catalyst nearly as cheap as dirt—molybdenum disulfide, "molly" for short—to stand in for platinum, a rare ...
Materials Science
Oct 7, 2015
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Using a succession of biological mechanisms, Sandia National Laboratories researchers have created linkages of polymer nanotubes that resemble the structure of a nerve, with many out-thrust filaments poised to gather or send ...
Bio & Medicine
Aug 24, 2015
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Nitrogen and phosphate nutrients are among the biggest costs in cultivating algae for biofuels. Sandia molecular biologists Todd Lane and Ryan Davis have shown they can recycle about two-thirds of those critical nutrients, ...
Biotechnology
Aug 19, 2015
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To fight a pathogen that's highly resistant to antibiotics, first understand how it gets that way.
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 16, 2015
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Planets tend to cool as they get older, but Saturn is hotter than astrophysicists say it should be without some additional energy source.
Condensed Matter
Jul 14, 2015
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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 ...
Condensed Matter
May 20, 2015
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