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2024 News Releases

  • Sandia study supports superior bits

    A recent Sandia analysis of drilling records from the Frontier Observatory for Research in Geothermal Energy aims to provide guidance to the art of selecting the right drill bit for geothermal well drilling, based on location and depth, to reduce drilling costs.

    A man and a woman stand in front of a complex machine. The man is holding a blue drill bit. The woman is on a ladder.

  • Sandia’s El Dorado supercomputer ranked 20th fastest in world

    Sandia’s new El Dorado supercomputer ranks 20th in the world on the latest Top500 list. The machine is smaller in scale but architecturally identical to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s El Capitan supercomputer, which ranked as the fastest in the world.


  • New program aims to BRIDGE gap in solar

    Hands-on training. Native American women learn to install photovoltaic panels as part of a collaboration with Sandia National Laboratories.

    Women train to install solar

  • Detecting battery failures quicker

    Batteries in electric vehicles can fail quickly, sometimes catching fire without much warning. Sandia National Laboratories is working to detect these failures early and provide sufficient warning time to vehicle occupants.


  • Middle schoolers set to battle it out on the racetrack

    Sandia National Laboratories is once again hosting the annual electric car challenge, bringing together middle schoolers from across New Mexico to showcase their ingenuity and creativity.


  • Study asks: Can cell phone signals help land a plane?

    Researchers from Sandia National Laboratories and The Ohio State University are taking experimental navigation technology to the skies, pioneering a backup system to keep an airplane on course when it cannot rely on global positioning system satellites.


  • Sandia tests heat shields for space

    Sandia is testing heat shields for NASA at the National Solar Thermal Test Facility.

    A cloud of smoke coming off of a glowing rectangle.

  • Great Minds in STEM recognizes Sandia microgrid engineer

    Darbali-Zamora, an electrical engineer specializing in microgrids with renewable energy resources at Sandia, has been honored with a Luminary Award by Great Minds in STEM.


  • Old ways making way for new

    “They say water is life, and that couldn’t be truer,” said Anne Francis, who has spent her life on the Navajo Nation. A new technology is transforming that struggle into a sustainable solution.


  • Deflecting doom: How Sandia research could save Earth from asteroids

    The most efficient way to prevent potentially dangerous asteroids from damaging or even obliterating Earth may involve a coordinated nuclear response based on extensive prior data, according to Sandia National Laboratories physicist Nathan Moore.


  • Swifter simulations for modern science. All of it

    A good machine-learning algorithm is a powerful research accelerator. Pair it with a computer simulation and it can propel scientists to faster insights about the effects of drugs on cells or the potential of rocket engines to send humankind to Mars and beyond.


  • Work toward a cleaner way to purify critical metals

    A team of researchers from Sandia National Laboratories has been pioneering an environmentally friendly method to separate rare-earth elements from watery mixtures. The team’s ultimate goal is to design sponges that selectively absorb one rare earth metal while excluding others.


  • Lighting the way for quantum innovation

    Sandia National Laboratories and Arizona State University, two research powerhouses, are collaborating to push the boundaries of quantum technology and transform large-scale optical systems into compact integrated microsystems.


  • Sandia Science & Technology Park injecting billions into state economy

    A study by the Mid-Region Council of Governments shows that over the last 25 years, businesses located within the Sandia Science & Technology Park paid out $7.7 billion in wages in the five-county region of Bernalillo, Sandoval, Valencia, Torrance and southern Santa Fe counties.


  • Steadying the hands of time

    Unless clocks are periodically synchronized, drift is just a fact of life. Even super accurate atomic clocks experience drift. Dan Thrasher, a scientist at Sandia National Laboratories, believes he can create a better one.