Technique for “phase locking” arrays of tiny lasers could lead to terahertz security scanners. Terahertz radiation — the band of electromagnetic radiation between microwaves and visible ligh... Read more
A group of scientists from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; the University of California, Santa Barbara; Sandia National Laboratories and Harvard University were able to fabri... Read more
By chemically modifying and pulverizing a promising group of compounds, scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have potentially brought safer, solid-state re... Read more
Smaller. Cheaper. Better. A Sandia-led team has developed a way to make a magnetic material that could lead to lighter and smaller, cheaper and better-performing high-frequency transformers,... Read more
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,... Read more
Sandia method cheaper, greener and cuts competition for fertilizer Nitrogen and phosphate nutrients are among the biggest costs in cultivating algae for biofuels. Sandia molecular biologists... Read more
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 ab... Read more
Mobile imager of fast neutrons spots radiation source at a distance and through shielding nuclear device has been hidden in a high-rise building in a major metropolitan area. Emergency respo... Read more
Working with two magnetic fields and a laser, all at low points of their power outputs, Sandia’s Z machine has released neutrons in an amount surprisingly close to ‘break-even... Read more
You wouldn’t think that mechanical force — the simple kind used to eject unruly patrons from bars, shoe a horse or emboss the raised numerals on credit cards — could process nanoparticles mo... Read more
A planned micro grid in a New Jersey city could be a model for making local communities more resilient to extreme weather For five days after Hurricane Sandy hit on October 29, 2012, large s... Read more
Young Brothers could save fuel and energy while greatly reducing emissions, if it switched primarily to fuel cells Clean hydrogen power that’s expected to lower emissions and reduce energy c... Read more
The secrets to its success are lasers, magnets and a big pinch The Z machine at Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico discharges the most intense pulses of electrical current on Earth.... Read more
A new method for controlling fire could prevent air pollution from forming in the first place An emerging technology could offer a more efficient way of reducing air pollution from power pla... Read more
The conductivity in the material, he says, is now a million times higher than that of the starting material, and a thousand times higher than anything previously reported using a metal-organ... Read more
