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Nanotechnology manager elected president of Materials Research Society

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

Senior manager Sean Hearne, who leads the Center of Integrated Nanotechnology (CINT) for Sandia National Laboratories, has been elected president of the Materials Research Society. MRS is an international organization that promotes interdisciplinary materials research with 15,000 members from academia, industry and national labs.

American Indian engineers present inaugural award to Sandia diversity specialist

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Grant and Award Announcement

Marie Capitan, a diversity workforce specialist at Sandia National Laboratories, is one of five professionals honored this weekend at the 2016 AISES National Conference in Minneapolis. She will accept the Blazing Flame Award, which honors an outstanding professional who has blazed a path for Native Americans in science, technology, engineering and math education and careers.

The destructive effects of supercooled liquid water on airplane safety and climate models

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

Exploring the properties of supercooled liquid water -- the bane of airplane wings and climate theorists -- Sandia Labs is mounting an expedition to fly huge tethered balloons in Alaska this winter, where temperatures descend to 40 degrees below zero and it's dark as a dungeon for all but a few hours of the day.

Mutational signatures mark cancer's smoking gun

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A broad computational study of cancer genome sequences identifies telltale mutational signatures associated with smoking tobacco and demonstrates, for the first time, that smoking increases cancer risk by causing somatic mutations in tissues directly and indirectly exposed to tobacco smoke.

Journal: Science

Sandia to evaluate if computational neuroscientists are on track

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) launched the Machine Intelligence from Cortical Networks (MICrONS) project earlier this year. Sandia National Laboratories is refereeing the work of three university-led teams to map, understand and mathematically re-create visual processing in the brain to close the computer-human gap in object recognition.

Diamonds aren't forever: Sandia, Harvard team create first quantum computer bridge

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Sandia researchers have demonstrated for the first time on a single chip all the components needed to create a quantum bridge to link quantum computers together.

Journal: Science
Funder: Sandia National Laboratories

Wave energy researchers dive deep to advance clean energy source

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

One of the biggest untapped clean energy sources on the planet -- wave energy -- could one day power millions of homes across the US. But more than a century after the first tests of the power of ocean waves, it is still one of the hardest energy sources to capture. Now, engineers at Sandia National Laboratories are conducting the largest model-scale wave energy testing of its kind to improve the performance of wave-energy converters.

Hydrogen-powered passenger ferry in San Francisco Bay is possible, says Sandia study

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Nearly two years ago, Sandia National Laboratories researchers Joe Pratt and Lennie Klebanoff set out to answer one not-so-simple question: is it feasible to build and operate a high-speed passenger ferry solely powered by hydrogen fuel cells? The answer is yes. The details behind that answer are in a recent report, 'Feasibility of the SF-BREEZE: a Zero Emission, Hydrogen Fuel Cell High Speed Passenger Ferry.'

Sled track simulates high-speed accident in B61-12 test

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Sandia National Laboratories sent a mock B61-12 nuclear weapon speeding down the labs' 10,000-foot rocket sled track to slam nose-first into a steel and concrete wall in a spectacular test that mimicked a high-speed accident. It allowed engineers to examine safety features inside the weapon that prevent inadvertent nuclear detonation.

Turning to the brain to reboot computing

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Computation is stuck in a rut. The integrated circuits that powered the past 50 years of technological revolution are reaching their physical limits. This predicament has computer scientists scrambling for new ideas. Researchers from Sandia National Laboratories will present three papers at the IEEE International Conference on Rebooting Computing held Oct. 17-19, highlighting the breadth of potential non-traditional neural computing applications.

Meeting: IEEE International Conference on Rebooting Computing

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