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Sandians prep students for solar high-altitude balloon launch

May 2, 2025, Media Advisory • Students from three Albuquerque schools are preparing to launch their solar high-altitude balloons into the stratosphere with the help of Sandia National Laboratories volunteers and the nonprofit, Science Heads.

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

Topics: national laboratories, Sandia National Laboratories, science heads, STEM

Swift IT service with a smile

April 30, 2025 • Sandia National Laboratories employees can bring an unclassified laptop in the Albuquerque area to one of the two Swift IT Bar locations for in-person assistance.

Categories: Computing, Operations / Budget

Topics: corporate computing help desk, corporate IT, information technology

A man and a woman stand beside a laptop, looking at a tiny item in the woman's hand.

Designing long-duration toxin sensors

April 23, 2025 • Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have spent the last three years developing an ultra-low-power chemical sensor to detect sarin and other chemical warfare agents or gaseous industrial toxins, aiming to protect the public and warfighters.

Categories: Chemistry, Homeland security, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: chemical detection, LDRD, low-power electronics, sarin

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Sandia’s unique role in nuclear deterrence

April 22, 2025 • As lead systems integrator, Sandia National Laboratories plays a critical role in nuclear weapons, in close collaboration with our labs, plants and sites.

Categories: Military / Defense, Nuclear Weapons

Topics: engineering, nuclear weapons, Sandia National Laboratories

Innovation is motivation

April 17, 2025 • Hongyou Fan has been named Outstanding Researcher by the Federal Laboratory Consortium for his outstanding innovation and work in tech transfer.

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Catch me if you can? Check.

April 14, 2025 • Sandia National Laboratories is helping defend deployed troops and the nation against hypersonic threats.

Categories: Military / Defense

Topics: hypersonic weapons, missile defense, Missile Defense Agency

A surprise contender for cooling computers: lasers

April 8, 2025 • Minnesota-based startup Maxwell Labs has entered into a cooperative research and development agreement with Sandia National Laboratories and the University of New Mexico to demonstrate laser-based photonic cooling for computer chips.

Categories: Computing, CRADA, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Photonics

APS students headed to National Science Bowl

March 12, 2025 • Students from two Albuquerque Public Schools are headed to the 2025 Department of Energy National Science Bowl in Washington, D.C., with some serious bragging rights in hand.

Categories: Community / Education, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: Science bowl

Recycling products from the inside out

March 6, 2025 • What if plastics could self-destruct when their time as a useful product ends? Scientists at Sandia National Laboratories are exploring this concept in one of their latest projects.

Categories: Chemistry, Energy / Environment / Water, Materials Science, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: Sandia National Laboratories

National security leader Laura J. McGill named next director of Sandia Labs

March 4, 2025 • Laura J. McGill will become Sandia National Laboratories’ 17th Laboratories Director, effective May 1, 2025.

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

B61-12 system production ends, sustainment begins

February 24, 2025 • Sandia National Laboratories and the nuclear security enterprise have achieved a significant milestone for the nation’s nuclear deterrence program with the completion of the last production unit of the B61-12 nuclear gravity bomb.

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

Topics: defense, national laboratories, nuclear deterrence, nuclear weapons, Sandia, Sandia National Laboratories

Students use machine learning to predict crime at annual Thunderbird Hackathon

February 6, 2025, Media Advisory • High school students will immerse themselves into the world of coding and artificial intelligence while tackling community issues at the second annual Thunderbird Hackathon.

Categories: Community / Education, Computing, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: artificial intelligence, crime, national laboratories, Sandia, STEM education

SandiaAI chat: New tool for creating efficiencies

February 5, 2025 • In May 2024, Sandia National Laboratories became the first facility within the nuclear security enterprise to provide its employees with access to this powerful new tool with SandiaAI Chat, enabling them to ask sensitive unclassified questions.

Categories: Computing

Topics: ChatGPT, Large Language Models

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Materials scientist elected to National Academy of Inventors

January 30, 2025 • Tina Nenoff has been elected a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors.

Categories: Awards

Topics: awards

Sandia’s economic impact soars to $5.2B in 2024

January 15, 2025 • Sandia National Laboratories made its biggest financial impact ever in 2024, contributing $5.2 billion to the economy.

Categories: Climate Security, Energy / Environment / Water, Operations / Budget, Renewable energy, Science / Technology / Engineering, Space / Astronomy, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: economic development, national laboratories, Sandia, small business, tech transfer

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

Topics: American Physical Society, quantum, Wei Pan

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.

Categories: HR / Personnel, Media advisories, Operations / Budget, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: business, economic development, national laboratories, Sandia, small business

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

Topics: Department of Energy Office of Science, energy efficiency, microelectronics

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

Topics: Laboratory Directed Research and Development, quantum computing, quantum information science

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.

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

Topics: CRADAs, economic development, Sandia National Laboratories

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

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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

Topics: El Capitan, El Dorado, exascale, high performance computing, modeling and simulation, NNSA Advanced Simulation Computing, stockpile stewardship, supercomputer, Top500 List

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

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