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New program aims to BRIDGE gap in solar

November 18, 2024 • Hands-on training. Native American women learn to install photovoltaic panels as part of a collaboration with Sandia National Laboratories.

Categories: Renewable energy, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: clean energy, CRADA, national laboratories, Native American, solar installation, women in tech

Detecting battery failures quicker

November 12, 2024 • 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.

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: battery safety, battery testing, electric vehicles, national labs, Sandia

Middle schoolers set to battle it out on the racetrack

November 11, 2024, Media Advisory • 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.

Categories: Media advisories, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: Community Outreach, STEM

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

October 22, 2024 • 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.

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: air travel safety, Doppler effect, GPS, GPS-denied navigation, LDRD, navigation, weather balloon

Sandia tests heat shields for space

October 15, 2024 • Sandia is testing heat shields for NASA at the National Solar Thermal Test Facility.

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering, Space / Astronomy

Topics: aerospace, NASA

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Great Minds in STEM recognizes Sandia microgrid engineer

October 1, 2024 • 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.

Categories: Awards, Renewable energy

Topics: HENAAC awards

Old ways making way for new

September 24, 2024 • “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.

Categories: Awards, Climate Change, Energy / Environment / Water, Media advisories, Renewable energy, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: livestock, Navajo Reservation, NMSBA, water

Deflecting doom: How Sandia research could save Earth from asteroids

September 23, 2024 • 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.

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: asteroid, z machine

Swifter simulations for modern science. All of it

August 28, 2024 • 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.

Categories: Computing

Topics: computer modeling and simulation, Laboratory Directed Research and Development, machine learning, materials science

Work toward a cleaner way to purify critical metals

August 27, 2024 • 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.

Categories: Materials Science

Topics: LDRD, metal-organic framework, rare earth

Lighting the way for quantum innovation

August 26, 2024 • 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.

Categories: Physics, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: CRADA

Sandia Science & Technology Park injecting billions into state economy

August 21, 2024 • 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.

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: economic impact, MRCOG, Sandia, science and technology park

Steadying the hands of time

August 15, 2024 • 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.

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: atomic clock, barium, DARPA, Nichia Corporation, quantum sensing

The mother of all motion sensors

August 13, 2024 • Researchers from Sandia National Laboratories have used silicon photonic microchip components to perform a quantum sensing technique called atom interferometry, the latest milestone toward developing a kind of quantum compass for navigation when GPS signals are unavailable.

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: atom interferometry, National Security Photonics Center, navigation, quantum sensing, silicon photonics

Sandia researcher recognized for electrification work with tribal communities

August 12, 2024 • Sandia National Laboratories Senior Scientist Stan Atcitty has been honored with the A.P. Seethapathy Rural Electrification Excellence Award by the IEEE for his leadership and innovation in the rural electrification of U.S. tribal nations.

Categories: Awards, Energy / Environment / Water

Sandia National Laboratories Senior Scientist Stan Atcitty. center, speaks during a visit to Navajo Technical University on June 30, 2023. Atcitty received an award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers for his work with tribal nations providing information as to how they can meet their electrical needs

Transforming environmental testing one shake at a time

July 25, 2024 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Testing weapons and components in a lab-controlled environment has always been at the center of Sandia National Laboratories’ mission. Since the U.S. stopped underground explosives tests on weapons in the early 1990s, Sandia has developed other methods to conduct experiments that mimic the range of environments a...

Categories: Military / Defense, Nuclear Weapons

Topics: engineers, nuclear deterrence, nuclear weapons

A FORCEE for good: Growing Sandia’s climate and earth sciences internship

July 23, 2024 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Summer at Sandia National Laboratories typically means high temperatures, blazing sunlight and campuses filled with bright, eager interns. About 75 of these young innovators have come to Sandia this summer as part of the Future of Research for Climate, Earth and Energy Intern Institute. Another 75 interns...

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, HR / Personnel

Topics: clean energy, internship opportunities, internships

Sandia National Laboratories intern Charles Xu tests the pressure of repair coatings on spent nuclear fuel canisters. Xu is an intern in the Future of Research for Climate, Earth and Energy Institute.

In-house advanced manufacturing techniques help meet mission needs

July 17, 2024 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A group at Sandia National Laboratories is transforming how it develops custom electronic connectors for weapons systems. The Rapid Development Connectors program is a five-year National Nuclear Security Administration-funded project to build a team and lab space capable of fabricating and delivering functional connectors in less than...

Categories: Materials Science, Military / Defense, Nuclear Weapons, Science / Technology / Engineering

Sandia helps Las Positas College manufacture the future

July 3, 2024 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Sandia National Laboratories, with the support of the National Nuclear Security Administration, has donated machinery and attachments to Las Positas College in Livermore, supporting the expansion of a cutting-edge manufacturing program. Those machines will help train the next generation of California students in the art of fabricating...

Categories: Community / Education

Topics: community, donation, Las Positas, manufacturing, Sandia

Sandia employees teaching quantum science to the next generation

July 2, 2024, Media Advisory • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — QCaMP is returning to New Mexico for its third year, with the goal of inspiring the next generation of scientists in the rapidly growing field of quantum science. Scientists from Sandia National Laboratories, in collaboration with instructors from Los Alamos National Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,...

Categories: Community / Education, Computing, Media advisories, Physics, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: QCaMP, Quantum science, Sandia

Students perform some hands-on activities with the SparCOS team during the 2023 QCaMP, organized by Sandia National Laboratories.

Quantum computers’ unexpected advantage

July 1, 2024 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — As the hare learned from the tortoise, speed isn’t everything. Theoretical computer scientists at Sandia National Laboratories and Boston University have discovered that quantum computers are unrivaled at solving an advanced math problem. Unusually, they proved quantum computers are not faster than regular computers; instead, they use...

Categories: Computing

Topics: mathematics, quantum advantage, quantum computing, quantum information science, theoretical science

Sandia to demonstrate arsenic removal technique at Jemez Pueblo July 5

June 29, 2024 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. —Sandia National Laboratories will demonstrate a coagulation filtration method of removing arsenic from drinking water July 5 as part of a ceremony at the Jemez Pueblo.

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

DOE awards $7.4M for energy projects at Sandia National Laboratories

June 28, 2024 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The Department of Energy’s Office of Technology Transitions has awarded $7.4 million to develop seven projects at Sandia National Laboratories aimed at advancing clean energy technologies. Vanessa Chan, the Chief Commercialization Officer and director of DOE’s OTT office, announced the funding at an event in Albuquerque on...

Categories: Climate Change, Energy / Environment / Water, Renewable energy, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: clean energy, commercialization, Department of Energy, national labs, Sandia, Sandia National Labs, technology transfer

DOE awards Sandia small business program and local veteran

June 25, 2024, Media Advisory • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The Department of Energy has once again awarded Sandia National Laboratories for its work helping small businesses. One of those businesses, owned by a disabled veteran, was also awarded for its extraordinary work. DOE Mentor of the Year Sandia’s small business Mentor-Protégé Program has been named as...

Categories: Awards, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: award, DOE, mentor-protege, New Mexico small business, veteran owned business

Boosting battery research

June 12, 2024 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Most Americans don’t leave home without at least one lithium battery-powered device, and someday, the house itself may have a battery back-up. Scientists at Sandia National Laboratories are working to make these large back-up batteries less expensive, hold more energy and be less prone to bursting into...

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: battery, battery research, grid-scale energy storage, tech transfer

Sandia National Laboratories battery expert Melissa Meyerson works in a glovebox to setup a lithium-sulfur flow battery. These kinds of batteries have huge potential for being large, safe and in-expensive back-ups for a high-renewables grid.

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