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Tread tester

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

Sandia National Laboratories and The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. have developed a virtual means of showing a tire's performance before the first prototypes are ever built. Computer simulations test a virtual tire on a virtual test machine that simulates actual road conditions.

Forests with diverse tree sizes and small clearings hinder wildland fire growth

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new 3D analysis shows that wildland fires flare up in forests populated by similar-sized trees or checkerboarded by large clearings and slow down where trees are more varied.

Journal: International Journal of Wildland Fire

Economic impact: Sandia Labs injects $3.76B into economy

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

Driven by the purchasing of goods and services and payroll, Sandia National Laboratories injected more than $3.76 billion into the economy along with creating 460 new jobs in fiscal year 2020.

Newly identified tiny mineral named for Los Alamos and U. Wisconsin scientists

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory

A vanishingly tiny mineral is being named for two scientists who have revolutionized the analysis of mineral samples. Xuite (pronounced "zoo-ite"), the newest member of the nano-mineral pantheon, is named in honor of Los Alamos National Laboratory mineralogist Hongwu Xu and the University of Wisconsin's Huifang Xu.

Giving campaigns at Sandia shine during pandemic year

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

Sandia National Laboratories employees came together in a big way in 2020, contributing $4.8 million to the annual Sandia Gives campaign, increasing donations by $324,000 over 2019.

Women rank Sandia National Laboratories among best places to work

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Grant and Award Announcement

Sandia National Laboratories was recognized recently by Fairygodboss as one of the Best Companies for Women 2020 and Best Companies where CEOs Support Gender Diversity.

Physicists can apply to work for Rosen Scholar Fellowship at Los Alamos Neutron Science Center

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory

Experimental and theoretical scientists seeking an opportunity to pursue research in neutron scattering, dynamic materials, isotope production, and both applied and basic research in nuclear physics at the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center (LANSCE) can apply to the Rosen Scholar Fellowship.

Advanced materials in a snap

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A research team at Sandia National Laboratories has successfully used machine learning -- computer algorithms that improve themselves by learning patterns in data -- to complete cumbersome materials science calculations more than 40,000 times faster than normal.

Journal: npj Computational Materials
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Los Alamos study hopes to characterize and optimize ventilator treatment for COVID-19

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory

Cross-disciplinary scientists and engineers at Los Alamos National Laboratory are working to learn how Intrapulmonary Percussive Ventilation (IPV) helps clear mucus from blocking the airways of the human lung, a common reaction to the Covid-19 virus.

Multi-messenger astronomy offers new estimates of neutron star size and universe expansion

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Multi-messenger astronomy allows researchers to put new constraints on the radius of a typical neutron star and provide a novel calculation of the Hubble constant.

Journal: Science
Funder: and the NUCLEI SciDAC project, LANL Laboratory Directed Research and Development, DOE/US Department of Energy, Office of Nuclear Physics

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