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When 12 miners died last January at the Sago Mine in West Virginia, the Mine Safety and Health Administration needed answers. Experiments by a Sandia team confirmed that a lightning strike above the mine could have caused a spark in the mine, a conclusion the MSHA adopted in its final report. The results could lead to life-saving new practices.
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Summer 2007 — Volume 9, No. 2
What to do about water
In the American West, developers, farmers, environmentalists, and policy makers are seeking solutions to growing water shortages resulting from agricultural demand, increased development, and drought. New decision tools run on computers are allowing them to explore how choices made today might affect water supplies decades from now.
INSIGHTS: When water disputes boil over
Water resources decision making often results in a protracted, inefficient, litigious decision process that takes too long, costs too much, and leaves us without broad consensus on the decisions.
By Hal Cardwell, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Institute for Water Resources
Tragedy strikes
Findings of a Sandia research team were part of a recently released report by the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) indicating the lightning was a likely cause of the explosion in the Sage Mine on Jan. 2, 2006. The disaster killed 12 coal miners.
Looking at immune response one cell at a time
A Sandia research team led by Anup Singh is taking a new approach to studying how immune cells respond to infectious agents in the first few minutes or hours of exposure. The team’s method looks at cells one at a time as the cells start fighting invading pathogens.
Summer in Antarctica
Deep cracks in the antarctic ice have made landing airplanes there difficult and dangerous.
The New York Air National Guard needed a way to detect the snow-covered crevasses from the air. Synthetic aperture radar is showing the way.
Creating ice in nanoseconds
Sandia’s huge Z machine has transformed water to ice in nanoseconds — ice that is hotter than the boiling point of water. It turns out that the three phases of water that most of us are familiar with are among a host of possible phases in more extreme conditions.
