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Autonomy New Mexico interns build drones to test hypersonic tech

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

A team of college interns at Sandia National Laboratories has built autonomous drones to try out new navigation, guidance and control, and target recognition techniques ultimately bound for autonomous hypersonic vehicles.

Sandia experiments at temperature of sun offer solutions to solar model problems

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The theoretical model that astrophysicists have used for 40 years to determine the behavior and future of the sun is broken. It seems fixable, however, with information from experiments at Sandia's Z machine, done at the temperature of the sun, that can accurately determine how much energy the sun's components allow to pass through them.

Journal: Physical Review Letters
Funder: Sandia National Laboratories

Harshini Mukundan selected as AAAS IF/THEN Ambassador

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory

Los Alamos National Laboratory bioscientist Harshini Mukundan has been selected as one of the 125 AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science) IF/THEN Ambassadors.

HOT SHOT findings could save defense tech developers time and money

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

An analysis of HOT SHOT sounding rocket data has revealed a way to provide an earlier, more accurate indicator of whether an experimental technology will succeed in flight without falling to pieces. This could save taxpayer money by eliminating approximately a year's worth of additional research and development.

Funder: National Nuclear Security Administration, Sandia National Laboratories

Sandia abuses batteries for better energy storage

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

A new indoor tower allows Sandia National Laboratories researchers to drop 200 pounds or more on lithium-ion batteries to learn even more about how batteries respond to stress. Such batteries are commonly found in electric cars, computers, medical equipment and aircraft. And they are getting more powerful all the time. The constant push for more storage and power drives the need for tests such as those offered by the new drop tower.

How a chicken farmer landed a job in cybersecurity

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

Logan Carpenter worked on a chicken farm through high school. Now, he conducts cybersecurity research. The link was a pipeline program that connects students at historically black colleges and universities with cybersecurity internships at Sandia and Lawrence Livermore national laboratories.

Earthquake or underground explosion?

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

Sandia National Laboratories researchers, as part of a group of National Nuclear Security Administration scientists, have wrapped up years of field experiments to improve the United States' ability to differentiate earthquakes from underground explosions, key knowledge needed to advance the nation's monitoring and verification capabilities for detecting underground nuclear explosions.

Sandia Labs manufacturing spinoff steps into national market

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

For 25 years, ESTT has promoted the creation of innovative small businesses by allowing staff to leave the labs with a guaranteed job waiting if they return within two years. Spinoff tech companies such as AMPS create high-paying jobs that help stimulate local economies.

Quantum computers to clarify the connection between the quantum and classical worlds

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists have developed a new quantum computing algorithm that offers a clearer understanding of the quantum-to-classical transition, which could help model systems on the cusp of quantum and classical worlds, such as biological proteins, and also resolve questions about how quantum mechanics applies to large-scale objects.

Journal: Nature Communications
Funder: Los Alamos National Laboratory Directed Research and Development program, ASC BML, DOE HEP QuantISED program, Department of Energy's High Energy Physics QuantISED program

Faint foreshocks foretell California quakes

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

New research mining data from a catalog of more than 1.8 million southern California earthquakes found that nearly three-fourths of the time, foreshocks signalled a quake's readiness to strike from days to weeks before the the mainshock hit, a revelation that could advance earthquake forecasting.

Journal: Geophysical Research Letters
Funder: LANL LDRD

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