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New work from Los Alamos National Laboratory, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the University of Florida is showing that artificial neural nets can be trained to encode quantum mechanical laws to describe the motions of molecules, supercharging simulations potentially across a broad range of fields.

A weakness in one common open source software for genomic analysis left DNA-based medical diagnostics vulnerable to cyberattacks. Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories identified the weakness and notified the software developers, who issued a patch to fix the problem. The issue has also been fixed in the latest release of the software, and no attack from this vulnerability is known.

Sandia National Laboratories will be doubling the amount of technical assistance it provides to small businesses, following legislation signed into New Mexico state law this year.

Sandia National Laboratories and partners developed new software that can perform quasi-static time series analysis 1,000 times faster than previous tools to show how rooftop solar panels interact with the electrical grid throughout the year.

New insights about how to understand and ultimately control the chemistry of ignition behavior and pollutant formation have been discovered in research led by Sandia National Laboratories. The discovery eventually will lead to cleaner, more efficient internal combustion engines.

Certain molecules of iron, when juxtaposed, have been found by Sandia National Labs and Aramco Research Center researchers to cause microscopic holes in steel pipe used for oil transport. This hidden, localized corrosion causes oil pipes to rust unpredictably at rates faster than baselined, interfering with the accuracy of computer models that determine pipe replacement schedules. This problem, which is potentially environmental, may be addressed by changing the microstructure of the steel surface during forging.

Efforts to create reliable light-based quantum computing, quantum key distribution for cybersecurity, and other technologies got a boost from a new study demonstrating an innovative method for creating thin films to control the emission of single photons.

Sandia National Laboratories recently launched a bus into space. Not the kind with wheels that go round and round, but the kind of device that links electronic devices. The bus was among 16 total experiments aboard two sounding rockets that were launched as part of the National Nuclear Security Administration's HOT SHOT program, which conducts scientific experiments and tests developing technologies on nonweaponized rockets.

Sandia National Labs and the University of New Mexico have signed an umbrella Cooperative Research and Development Agreement to bolster national security and advance science and engineering. The CRADA allows the labs and university to explore research collaborations among scientists, faculty and students in several areas. The agreement will immediately launch two projects focusing on radiation testing and developing particle detector designs for the European particle physics laboratory CERN.