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Nothing but water: Hydrogen fuel cell unit to provide renewable power to Honolulu port
August 28, 2015 • [caption id="" align="alignright" width="250"] "We are pleased to help expand this clean energy technology to new applications," said Young Brothers, Ltd., President Glenn Hong. Young Brothers is hosting a project led by Sandia National Laboratories to test a hydrogen-fuel-c…
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Glenn Hong

‘Laboratory Biorisk Management’ details safety, security methods for biosciences sites
August 25, 2015 • Sandia, international experts publish first biorisk management how-to book ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Recent mishaps at laboratories that mishandled potentially dangerous biological substances and the transmission of the Ebola virus in a U.S. hospital are symptoms at bioscience facilities that two Sandia National Laboratories researchers think could be prevented by implementing...
Categories: Bioscience / Medical Research, Homeland security
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Laboratory Biorisk Management book editors

Biological tools create nerve-like polymer network
August 24, 2015 • Crowdsurfing motor proteins create possible prosthetic interface ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — 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 electrical impulses. “This is the first demonstration of...
Categories: Biology, Bioscience / Medical Research, Chemistry, Materials Science, Nanotechnology, Science / Technology / Engineering
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New arena of power generation set in motion with MOU
August 20, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories and eight other companies and research organizations will collaborate to advance a distributed power system that can produce cleaner, more efficient electricity. The memorandum of understanding focuses on the development of a fossil-fueled energy system based on supercritical carbon dioxide (S-CO2) Brayton cycle technology....
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Brayton cycle lab

Sandia Labs takes home regional tech transfer awards
August 17, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories has won four regional awards from the Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) for its work to develop and commercialize innovative technologies. One award honored business development specialist Bianca Thayer as Technology Transfer Professional of the Year. Sandia technologies recognized by the FLC’s Far West/Mid-Continent regions...
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Sandia teams with industry to improve human-data interaction
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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Eyetracking

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...
Categories: Climate Security, Energy / Environment / Water, Military / Defense
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Helicopter Arctic Ocean

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…
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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...
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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…
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Sandia pilot to assist small clean-energy companies
July 9, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) chose Sandia National Laboratories as one of five leads in a pilot that will give small, clean-energy companies access to national laboratory expertise and resources. Sandia will receive $2.75 million of DOE’s $20 m…
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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
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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...
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Receiver on tower

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...
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Amplified light passes through the large tubes of Sandia National Laboratories’ Z-Beamlet laser, one of the most powerful in the world.

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...
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True Saturn

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...
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Jill Hruby

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...
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Sandia Labs fog chamber

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…
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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...
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Pavel Bochev
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