August 13, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Intelligence analysts working to identify national security threats in warzones or airports or elsewhere often flip through multiple images to create a video-like effect. They also may toggle between images at lightning speed, pan across images, zoom in and out or view videos or other moving records....
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Service dog helps Wounded Warrior on the job at Sandia Labs
August 11, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — For the first time, Sandia National Laboratories has welcomed a service dog to its New Mexico campus as a workplace accommodation for a veteran living with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).[caption id="" align="alignright" width="250"] Rob Mitchell…
Categories: HR / Personnel, Military / Defense
Warning Area in Arctic airspace to aid research and exploration
August 6, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A 700-mile-long airspace that stretches north from Oliktok Point — the northernmost point of Alaska’s Prudhoe Bay — to about 400 miles short of the North Pole has been put under the stewardship of Sandia National Laboratories by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the Federal...
Hardware from old nuclear weapons systems becomes valuable teaching resource
July 30, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories is preserving the history of nuclear weapons in hardware developed since the start of the nuclear era as a way to connect new generations of weapons engineers to the engineering work of past generations.“Tremendous amounts…
Categories: Nuclear Weapons, Science / Technology / Engineering
Sandia veterinarian helps make the world safer through livestock health and biosecurity
July 28, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Dr. Melissa Finley’s credibility was on the line as she worked, surrounded by skeptics, to save the life of a dehydrated calf in rural Afghanistan. As a woman and a foreigner she had to earn the trust of the villagers she was trying to help. “They had...
Whole lotta shakin’ goin’ on
July 22, 2015 • Sandia’s new vibration table promises different ways of testingALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — It took decades for technology to catch up with the math David Smallwood worked out to control vibration table shakers.Smallwood, a retired Sandia National Laboratories researcher who cons…
Categories: Nuclear Weapons, Science / Technology / Engineering
Tracing the evolution of a drug-resistant pathogen
July 15, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — To fight a pathogen that’s highly resistant to antibiotics, first understand how it gets that way.Klebsiella pneumoniae strains that carry a particular enzyme are known for “their ability to survive any antibiotics you throw at them,” said Corey H…
Sandia, UNM ink pact to promote research, recruiting
July 13, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The nation’s largest national laboratory and New Mexico’s flagship university on Monday expanded their commitment to work together to help redefine the future of science and engineering for national security, partner on research and jointly recruit …
Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering
Sandia tamper-detecting seal is tough to fool
July 7, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A critical area of security is ensuring that something inside a container stays there. Sandia National Laboratories has made the job easier with an innovative technology that detects signs of tampering. “In our world, one advance by an adversary can make a security technology obsolete overnight,” said...
Categories: Cybersecurity, Homeland security, Nonproliferation, Technology transfer / Economic Impact
Topics: business, cargo, container, cybersecurity, Homeland security, sealing, tamper detection, tech transfer
Testing heats up at Sandia’s Solar Tower with high temperature falling particle receiver
July 1, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories are working to lower the cost of solar energy systems and improve efficiencies in a big way, thanks to a system of small particles. This month, engineers lifted Sandia’s continuously recirculating falling particle receiver to the top of the tower at the...
Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Renewable energy
Sandia’s Z machine receives funding aimed at fusion energy
June 29, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A two-year, $3.8 million award has been received by Sandia National Laboratories and the University of Rochester’s Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE) to hasten the day of low-cost, high-yield fusion reactions for energy purposes. High-yield means much more energy emerging from a fusion reaction than is put...
Sandia’s Z machine helps solve Saturn’s 2-billion-year age gap
June 26, 2015 • Research supports 80-year-old prediction ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Planets tend to cool as they get older, but Saturn is hotter than astrophysicists say it should be without some additional energy source. The unexplained heat has caused a two-billion-year discrepancy for computer models estimating Saturn’s age. “Models that correctly predict Jupiter to...
New Sandia director will be first woman to lead national security lab
June 22, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Jill M. Hruby today was named the next president and director of Sandia National Laboratories, the country’s largest national lab. She will be the first woman to lead a national security laboratory when she steps into her new role July 17. A Sandia staff member and manager...
New fog chamber provides testing options that could improve security cameras
June 17, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Fog can play a key role in cloaking military invasions and retreats and the actions of intruders. That’s why physical security experts seek to overcome fog, but it’s difficult to field test security cameras, sensors or other equipment in fog that is often either too thick or...
Always/Never: Sandia documentary tells story of nuclear weapons safety, security
June 15, 2015, Media Advisory • [caption id="" align="alignright" width="250"] Six active and retired Sandia National Laboratories employees gathered in 2011 at the National Museum of Nuclear Science & History in Albuquerque, New Mexico, around two B28 gravity bombs recovered from a 1966 nuclear accide…
Categories: Media advisories, Nuclear Weapons
Computational mathematician at Sandia receives DOE’s Lawrence Award
June 11, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories researcher Pavel Bochev, a computational mathematician, has received an Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award for his pioneering theoretical and practical advances in numerical methods for partial differential equations. “This is the most prestigious mid-career honor that the Department of Energy awards,” said Bruce Hendrickson, director...
Categories: Awards, Science / Technology / Engineering
Sandia, Georgia Institute of Technology form academic collaboration
June 9, 2015 • ATLANTA — Sandia National Laboratories and The Georgia Institute of Technology today signed a five-year memorandum of understanding (MOU), establishing a strategic collaboration that seeks to solve science and technology problems of national importance.Sandia President and…
Categories: Community / Education
RAPTOR turbulent combustion code selected for next-gen supercomputer readiness project
May 27, 2015 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — RAPTOR, a turbulent combustion code developed bySandia National Laboratories mechanical engineer Joseph Oefelein, was selected as one of 13 partnership projects for the Center for Accelerated Application Readiness (CAAR).CAAR is a U.S. Department of Ene…
Categories: Awards, Transportation
High school girls honored for math, science achievements
May 21, 2015 • [caption id="" align="alignright" width="250"] Sandia National Laboratories vice president Marianne Walck, center, celebrates with Dublin High School student Alessia Stewart, one of 31 high school girls honored by Sandia for academic achievement in math and science. (Photo b…
Categories: Community / Education
Sandia researcher Mark Taylor receives highest award from DOE Secretary
May 21, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories researcher Mark Taylor has received the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) 2014 Secretary’s Honor Award — the department’s highest non-monetary employee recognition — for his work as chief computational scientist for DOE’s Accelerated Climate Modeling for Energy (ACME) executive council team. The award recognizes...
Sandia researchers first to measure thermoelectric behavior by ‘Tinkertoy’ materials
May 20, 2015 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — 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 applications as cooling computer...
Categories: Materials Science, Science / Technology / Engineering
Sandia helps small security company thwart thieves
May 19, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — At a motorcycle shop on a busy city street, crooks devised an elaborate scheme to steal from the storage yard. They jumped the fence and unpacked some newly arrived bikes from crates. They used the crates to build a ramp and run the motorcycles over and out....
Optical diagnostics researcher at Sandia wins DOE Early Career award
May 15, 2015 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Sandia National Laboratories researcher Christopher Kliewer has won a $2.5 million, five-year Early Career Research Program award from the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science for his fundamental science proposal to develop new optical diagn…
Robot Rodeo at Sandia Labs showcases bomb squad expertise
May 14, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Bomb squads from across the country saddled up their robots and are duking it out at the ninth annual Western National Robot Rodeo and Capability Exercise at Sandia National Laboratories. The five-day event offers a challenging platform for civilian and military bomb squad teams to practice defusing...
Categories: Homeland security, Science / Technology / Engineering
Starving cancer instead of feeding it poison
May 13, 2015 • Simulation offers hope of killing cancers without sickening patients ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A patent application for a drug that could destroy the deadly childhood disease known as acute lymphoblastic leukemia — and potentially other cancers as well — has been submitted by researchers at Sandia National Laboratories, the University of...
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