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Future hypersonics could be artificially intelligent
April 18, 2019 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A test launch for a hypersonic weapon — a long-range missile that flies a mile per second and faster — takes weeks of planning. So, while the U.S. and other states are racing to deploy hypersonic technologies, it remains uncertain how useful the systems will be against...
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Smarter, safer bridges with Sandia sensors
July 3, 2018 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Along with flying cars and instantaneous teleportation, smart bridges, roads and subway lines that can send out warnings when they’re damaged are staples of futuristic transportation systems in science fiction. Sandia National Laboratories has worked with Structural Monitoring Systems PLC, a U.K.-based manufacturer of structural health monitoring...
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Man positions small, clear sensor on an old rusty bridge. Blue sky in background. In his other hand is a complex control system.

Sandia’s international peer mentorship program improves biorisk management
October 24, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The world is becoming increasingly interconnected. While this has definite advantages, it also makes it easier to spread disease. Many diseases don’t produce symptoms for days or weeks, far longer than international flight times. For example, Ebola has an incubation period of two to 21 days. Improving...
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Emad Zaki pf Egypt explains his twinning project poster at the 2017 American Biological Safety Association conference.

Turning to the brain to reboot computing
October 3, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Computation is stuck in a rut. The integrated circuits that powered the past 50 years of technological revolution are reaching their physical limits. This predicament has computer scientists scrambling for new ideas: new devices built using novel physics, new ways of organizing units within computers and even...
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Sandia National Laboratories researchers are drawing inspiration from neurons in the brain, such as these green fluorescent protein-labeled neurons in a mouse neocortex, with the aim of developing neuro-inspired computing systems to reboot computing

Threat reduction: Hruby leads Sandia effort to counter weapons of mass destruction
February 14, 2014, Media Advisory • Sandia Labs vice president to speak at AAAS annual meeting CHICAGO, Ill. — Threats of terrorism and weapons of mass destruction don’t seem as imminent today as they did after terrorists flew hijacked planes into the first World Trade Center and the Pentagon and crashed in a Pennsylvania field, but...
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Keeping tabs on the world’s dangerous chemicals
February 15, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – In the chemistry labs of the developing world, it’s not uncommon to find containers, forgotten on shelves, with only vague clues to their origins. The label, if there is one, is rubbed away.[caption id="" align="alignright" width="250" caption="Sandia…
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Scientists to explore need for, relevance of combustion engines at AAAS gathering
February 12, 2013 • Enhancements to combustion technology can still help with carbon reduction, oil savings issues LIVERMORE, Calif.— The internal combustion engine has been the workhorse for transportation for more than a century, but Sandia National Laboratories researchers say there is still plenty to learn about engineering it to burn cleaner and more...
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Sandia to co-host international workshop on photovoltaics integration
October 29, 2012 • Sandia National Laboratories, the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and European Distributed Energies Research Laboratories (DERlab) have organized a workshop on utility operating experience with high-penetration levels of solar photovoltaics (PV). The workshop, “Utility Experience with High Penetration PV,” is scheduled Monday, Dec. 3, in Berlin. The workshop will take...
Categories: Conferences / Symposia, Energy / Environment / Water, Renewable energy

Sandia experts, students explore cyber issues during weeklong summer institute
August 24, 2012 • LIVERMORE, Calif.— Top graduate students pursuing careers in cybersecurity worked alongside Sandia and other prominent cybersecurity experts in a weeklong summer institute sponsored by Sandia National Laboratories at the Livermore Valley Open Campus. Cyber Security Technology, Policy, Law, and Planning for an Uncertain Future, which followed last year’s institute on...
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National workshop brings career development help to Sandia postdocs, student interns
July 17, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The American Chemical Society’s ACS on Campus is bringing career development workshops for scientists and engineers to Sandia National Laboratories’ postdoctoral fellows and interns, only the second time the program has come to a national laboratory. ACS on Campus will kick off the evening of July 19...
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Graph500 adds new measurement of supercomputing performance
June 25, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Supercomputing performance is getting a new measurement with the Graph500 executive committee’s announcement of specifications for a more representative way to rate the large-scale data analytics at the heart of high-performance computing. An international team that includes Sandia National Laboratories announced the single-source shortest-path specification to assess...
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Sandia seeks best ways to protect infrastructure, recover from disasters
June 21, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories is expecting the unexpected to help the nation prepare for severe weather and figure out the best ways to lessen the havoc hurricanes and other disasters leave on power grids, bridges, roads and everything else in their path.  “I think our work in critical...
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Sen. Bingaman tells Sandia Wind Turbine Blade Workshop that renewable energy is important to US policy
May 30, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M — Sen. Jeff Bingaman said Wednesday the on-again, off-again nature of U.S. energy tax incentives and the uncertainty over federal spending on research and innovative technology presents a major challenge to the wind energy industry and other alternative energy industries. Bingaman, chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources...
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Asian American Engineer of the Year honors three Sandians
February 27, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Three Sandia National Laboratories scientists are among 19 people from across the United States receiving 2012 Asian American Engineer of the Year awards. The AAEOY program and awards ceremony will be held in Albuquerque on March 2-3 at the Marriott Uptown. “It is a great honor to...
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Sandia experts available at international conference on electrical energy and storage
October 17, 2011 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. —  As our nation moves toward a more robust and flexible electric power grid, energy storage is often cited as the solution to allow greater implementation of renewable and alternative energy sources. Researchers from around the world are gathering in San Diego, Calif., at the Electrical Energy Storage...
Categories: Conferences / Symposia, Energy / Environment / Water, Renewable energy

Powering tribal lands: Sandia researcher to discuss off-grid, green technologies for rural areas at law seminar
April 30, 2010 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandra Begay-Campbell, leader of Sandia’s Tribal Renewable Energy Program and member of the Navajo Nation, will present “The Potential for Tribal Energy Resource Development in the Southwest” at the Tribal Energy in the Southwest Conference May 3-4 at Sandia Resort and Casino. Many tribes in the Southwest...
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Sandra Begay-Campbell stands in front of Window Rock with a solar panel.

Sandia workshop to focus on codes development for hydrogen-powered industrial trucks
March 30, 2010 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Sandia National Laboratories will host a workshop April 28 for industry and code development organizations designed to address research barriers to hydrogen-powered forklifts and other near-term fuel cell market applications. The workshop will include a number of participants, including industry leaders from Plug Power, Nuvera Fuel Cells...
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A PowerEdge fuel cell-powered forklift truck is refueled at Nuveras PowerTap hydrogen dispenser. An April 28 workshop organized by Sandia will help identify the key areas of R&D that are necessary to enable the deployment of hydrogen fuel cell systems for industrial trucks and other applications. (Photo courtesy Nuvera Fuel Cells)

Julia Phillips to speak on solid-state lighting’s contributions to national energy efficiency at AAAS Annual Meeting
February 18, 2010 • SAN DIEGO, Calif. — Solid-state lighting and its potential as a near-term generator of energy efficiencies will be the topic of a presentation by Julia Phillips, director of the Physical, Chemical, and Nano Sciences Center at Sandia National Laboratories, at the 2010 AAAS annual meeting. The meeting runs Feb. 18-22...
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EESAT 2009 conference scheduled for October
June 1, 2009 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Electrical energy storage technologies and applications, with an emphasis on the latest technological developments for the use of electricity storage in the power industry, will be addressed at the EESAT Conference Oct. 4-7 at the Renaissance Seattle Hotel...
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EESAT 2007 conference scheduled for September
April 25, 2007 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories, the U.S. Department of Energy, and the Electricity Storage Association announced today that they are co-sponsors of EESAT 2007, the sixth biennial conference on Electrical Energy Storage Systems Applications and Technologies...
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