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Father, son bond over engineering a record-smashing roadster

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

For the past eight years, Sandia National Laboratories manager Joel Wirth has been working afterhours in his home garage with his crew chief -- his father, Jack Wirth, a retired electrical engineer from Sandia. Together, they've built one of the fastest 1927 Model T roadsters in the world.

Space weather model gives earlier warning of satellite-killing radiation storms

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new machine-learning computer model accurately predicts damaging radiation storms caused by the Van Allen belts two days prior to the storm, the most advanced notice to date, according to a new paper in the journal Space Weather.

Journal: Space Weather

Machine learning reveals earth tremor and slip occur continuously, not intermittently

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory

Applying deep learning to seismic data has revealed tremor and slip occur at all times -- before and after known large-scale slow-slip earthquakes -- rather than intermittently in discrete bursts, as previously believed.

Identify, track, capture

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

Sandia National Laboratories robotics experts are working on a way to intercept enemy unmanned aircraft systems midflight.

Cooling unit saves half-million gallons of water at supercomputing center

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

This method of cooling a supercomputer center saved a million gallons of water in six months, and could help other dry areas being drained of water cooling supercomputing centers springing up around the country.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

No Strain, No Gain! Breakthrough in 2D Material that Produces Single Photons

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory

Recent research has shown that 2D materials may have potential as light sources that emit light as single photons.

Improved Catalyst Branches Out and Out-Performs

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory

Branched nanoparticles are one of the most promising catalysts. Scientists can control their branch sizes and surfaces to make them more stable and more effective catalysts.

A material benefit to society, Sandia scientist elected AAAS fellow

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Grant and Award Announcement

Sandia National Laboratories senior scientist Tina Nenoff was elected by her peers a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for the advancement of science 'in service to society' and 'for outstanding accomplishments in nanoporous materials and technology through research and group effort leadership, particularly in ion and gas separations for energy and environmental applications.'

Meeting: AAAS Annual Meeting

Los Alamos high-performance computing veteran to chair SC22

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory

Candace Culhane, a program/project director in Los Alamos National Laboratory's Directorate for Simulation and Computation, has been selected as the general chair for the 2022 SC Conference (SC22).

Seeing inside a battery while it's working

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

A new paper-thin radio-frequency detector, developed by researchers at Sandia National Laboratories and designed to work inside a lithium-ion battery, provides information about the battery's health while charging and discharging.

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