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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 race to build the world’s smallest atomic clock, again

August 29, 2023 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Yuan-Yu Jau is on a quest to build the world’s smallest atomic clock, a device that measures time with extreme accuracy. If successful, he and his team at Sandia National Laboratories will have made one smaller than a sugar cube. But he’s not the only one pushing...

Categories: Military / Defense

Topics: atomic clock, DARPA, GPS, MESA

What do you do with a shrunken laser?

August 1, 2023, Media Advisory • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The laser is so small you need a microscope to see it properly. But it’s not just the size that scientists at Sandia National Laboratories are excited about. The buzz is that the laser can now be combined with other microscale optical devices to make self-driving cars...

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: CHIPS and Science Act, DARPA, Integrated photonics, Laboratory Directed Research and Development, Microsystems Engineering Science and Applications, National Security Photonics Center, partnerships

Infectious diseases: CTRL + ALT + Delete

November 21, 2017 • Sandia joins gene editing safety project LIVERMORE, Calif.— Gene editing is revolutionizing the bioscience research landscape and holds great promise for “deleting” diseases from human bodies. Sandia National Laboratories is working to make this technology safer and to ensure that one day it can be delivered into humans without triggering...

Categories: Bioscience / Medical Research

Topics: adeno associated virus, bioscience research, Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats, CRISPR, DARPA, RNA targeting, Safe Genes

Getting bot responders into shape

December 16, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories is tackling one of the biggest barriers to the use of robots in emergency response: energy efficiency. Through a project supported by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Sandia is developing technology that will dramatically improve the endurance of legged robots, helping them...

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: DARPA, disaster response, emergency rescue, robot, robotics challenge