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New model accurately predicts harmful space weather

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new, first-of-its-kind space weather model reliably predicts space storms of high-energy particles that are harmful to many satellites and spacecraft orbiting in the Earth's outer radiation belt.

Journal: Space Weather

Scientific computing in the cloud gets down to Earth

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Business Announcement

In a groundbreaking effort, seismology researchers have conducted a continent-scale survey for seismic signatures of industrial activity in the Amazon Web Services commercial cloud (AWS), then rapidly downloaded the results without storing raw data or needing a local supercomputer.

Fields of Gold

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

Sandia National Laboratories ecologist Jennifer Payne is one of two Certified Ecological Restoration Practitioners in New Mexico, a title held by only 150 people in the country. With an eye for vegetation, she helps protect lands and upholds labs commitments to protecting the environment.

Mirage software automates design of optical metamaterials

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

Sandia National Laboratories has created the first inverse design software for optical metamaterials -- meaning users start by describing the result they want, and the software fills in the steps to get there. The modern design approach takes guesswork out of engineering as-yet theoretical technologies like ultracompact, high-performance cameras and cloaking armor that could make wearers invisible to detection.

Lighting the way to removing radioactive elements

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory

An unassuming pulse of light illuminates a possible way to separate a troubling element, americium, from a soup of similar elements. The diverse team at the Center for Actinide Science & Technology Energy Frontier Research Center is finding fast, efficient, safe ways to separate compounds.

New reactor-liner alloy material offers strength, resilience

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new tungsten-based alloy developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory can withstand unprecedented amounts of radiation without damage. Essential for extreme irradiation environments such as the interiors of magnetic fusion reactors, previously explored materials have thus far been hobbled by weakness against fracture, but this new alloy seems to defeat that problem.

Journal: Science Advances
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, Laboratory Directed Research and Development program of Los Alamos National Laboratory, G. T. Seaborg Institute

Sandia spiking tool improves artificially intelligent devices

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The aptly named software package Whetstone enables neural computer networks to process information up to 100 times more efficiently than current standards, making possible an increased use of artificial intelligence in mobile phones, self-driving cars, and image interpretation.

Journal: Nature Machine Intelligence
Funder: US Department of Energy's Advanced Simulation and Computing program

700,000 submunitions demilitarized by Sandia-designed robotics system

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

More than 700,000 Multiple Launch Rocket System submunitions have been demilitarized since the Army started using an automated nine-robot system conceptualized, built and programmed by Sandia National Laboratories engineers.

Sandia research investigates how organic reactions affect Earth's atmosphere

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories and colleagues from other institutions investigated the reactions of hydroxyl and methylperoxy radicals to understand their impact on the atmosphere's ability to process pollutants.

NNSA Approves 'Critical Decision 1' for Advanced Sources and Detectors Project

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory

The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has approved Critical Decision-1 (CD-1) for the Advanced Sources and Detectors Project (ASD), a cornerstone of the Enhanced Capabilities for Subcritical Experiments portfolio (ECSE). ASD is a proposed 20-million electron volt (MeV) accelerator that will generate X-ray images, or radiographs, of subcritical implosion experiments for the nuclear weapons program.

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