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Beyond Bennu: How OSIRIS-REx is helping scientists study the sonic signature of meteoroids

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers from Sandia National Laboratories are partnering with other labs and agencies on a campaign to record and characterize the infrasound and seismic waves generated by NASA's OSIRIS-REx sample return capsule as it moves through Earth’s atmosphere at hypersonic speed, about 26,000 miles per hour.

Journal: Atmosphere

Sandia National Laboratories engineer named Scientist of the Year

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Grant and Award Announcement

A nuclear engineer from Sandia National Laboratories has been named Scientist of the Year by Great Minds in Stem/Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Awards Corporation HENAAC, an organization tasked with highlighting outstanding Hispanics in the STEM field.

Increasing national security with satellites that team together

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

Sandia National Laboratories has been working on an autonomy project led by the Air Force Research Laboratory that could improve the nation’s ability to conduct national security missions, including intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, climate monitoring and emergency response.

High-tech invisible ink spells trouble for counterfeiters

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

A high-tech invisible ink invented at Sandia National Laboratories could become the newest tool for stopping counterfeit goods. The research team is now seeking partnerships to help develop and ultimately commercialize the new technology.

Not too big: Machine learning tames huge data sets

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A machine-learning algorithm demonstrated the capability to process data that exceeds a computer’s available memory by identifying a massive data set’s key features and dividing them into manageable batches that don’t choke computer hardware. Developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory, the algorithm set a world record for factorizing huge data sets during a test run on Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Summit, the world’s fifth-fastest supercomputer. Equally efficient on laptops and supercomputers, the highly scalable algorithm solves hardware bottlenecks that prevent processing information from data-rich applications in cancer research, satellite imagery, social media networks, national security science and earthquake research, to name just a few.

Journal: The Journal of Supercomputing
Funder: DNN, Laboratory Directed Research and Development program at Los Alamos National Laboratory

The race to build the world’s smallest atomic clock, again

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

Yuan-Yu Jau is on a quest to build the world’s smallest atomic clock, a device that measures time with extreme accuracy. If successful, he and his team at Sandia National Laboratories will have made one smaller than a sugar cube. But he’s not the only one pushing the limits of tiny timepieces.

Making materials more durable through science

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

A team at Sandia National Laboratories developed a molecule that helps change the way some materials react to temperature fluctuations, which makes them more durable. It’s an application that could be used in everything from plastic phone cases to missiles.

New quantum device generates single photons and encodes information

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new approach to quantum light emitters generates a stream of circularly polarized single photons, or particles of light, that may be useful for a range of quantum information and communication applications. A Los Alamos National Laboratory team stacked two different, atomically thin materials to realize this chiral quantum light source.

Journal: Nature Materials
Funder: Basic Energy Sciences, Laboratory Directed Research and Development, Quantum Science Center

Math enables blending hydrogen in natural gas pipelines

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Mathematical modeling can show how to safely blend hydrogen with natural gas for transport in existing pipeline systems. A secure and reliable transition to hydrogen is one of the proposed solutions for the shift to a net-zero-carbon economy.

Journal: PRX Energy

Sandia successfully tests heat-powered system

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories recently designed, built and lab-tested a device that can use the temperature difference caused by periodically pumping carbon dioxide down a borehole to charge batteries to someday power underground sensors.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

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