January 15, 2025 • Sandia National Laboratories made its biggest financial impact ever in 2024, contributing $5.2 billion to the economy.
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New Mexico students create floating future city
January 13, 2025, Media Advisory • Sponsored by Sandia National Laboratories, the event is part of a national program that encourages middle school students to imagine, design and build sustainable future cities that are innovative, safe and secure.
Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering
Electron work yields positive outcome for Wei Pan
January 9, 2025 • While Wei Pan spends his days studying negatively charged electrons, he’s positively buzzing with excitement after being elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society this year, recognizing his remarkable contributions to the field.
Categories: Awards
Sandia National Labs to announce record-breaking impact in 2024
January 8, 2025, Media Advisory • Sandia National Laboratories has set a new record for its economic impact in 2024, surpassing the previous year by nearly $400 million.
To prevent an energy crisis, Sandia Labs cofounds new microelectronics research center
January 6, 2025 • Sandia National Laboratories is collaborating with other research institutions to head off a potential future energy crisis that could be driven in part by artificial intelligence.
Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering
Hey! Where’s my qubit?
December 18, 2024 • Vanishing atoms can ruin quantum calculations. Scientists have a new plan to locate leaks.
Categories: Computing, Science / Technology / Engineering
New Sandia R&D agreements reach levels not seen in three decades
December 9, 2024 • Sandia National Labs saw the highest number of new R&D agreements in 30 years in fiscal year 2024.
Sandia study supports superior bits
December 4, 2024 • 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.
Categories: Renewable energy, Science / Technology / Engineering
Topics: geothermal
Sandia’s El Dorado supercomputer ranked 20th fastest in world
November 25, 2024 • 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.
Categories: Computing, Science / Technology / Engineering
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
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.
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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