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Sandia teams with industry to improve human-data interaction

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

Sandia National Laboratories and EyeTracking Inc. are researching computer information systems to make national security analysts better at getting meaningful information from large data sets coming in quickly in high-stress environments.

Warning Area in Arctic airspace to aid research and exploration

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

A 700-mile-long, 40-mile-wide airspace that stretches north from Alaska nearly to the North Pole has been put under the stewardship of Sandia National Laboratories to create safer conditions for climate studies of clouds, retreating sea ice, and search-and-rescue missions. Initial participants include the Coast Guard, a major oil company, and unmanned aircraft manufacturers.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, Office of Science

Red and White Fleet going green

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

Sandia National Laboratories recently signed a cooperative research and development agreement with Red and White Fleet to design, build and operate a high-speed hydrogen fuel cell passenger ferry and hydrogen refueling station.

Funder: United States Department of Transportation Maritime Administration

Whole lotta shakin' goin' on

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

It took decades for technology to catch up with the math David Smallwood worked out to control vibration table shakers. Smallwood, a retired Sandia National Laboratories researcher who consults at the labs, knew that shaking in all directions at once was the key to realistic parts testing. Now Sandia is putting the algorithms he developed more than 30 years ago to the test.

Tracing the evolution of a drug-resistant pathogen

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

Sandia National Laboratories researchers are studying antibiotic-resistant pathogens to aid in the fight against them.

Curiosity rover finds evidence of Mars' primitive continental crust

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The ChemCam laser instrument on NASA's Curiosity rover has turned its beam onto some unusually light-colored rocks on Mars, and the results are surprisingly similar to Earth's granitic continental crust rocks. This is the first discovery of a potential 'continental crust' on Mars.

Journal: Nature Geoscience
Funder: NASA

Testing heats up at Sandia's Solar Tower with high temperature falling particle receiver

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories are working to lower the cost of solar energy systems and improve efficiencies in a big way, thanks to a system of small particles.

Sandia's Z machine receives funding aimed at fusion energy

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Grant and Award Announcement

To hasten the day of low-cost, high-yield fusion reactions for energy purposes, a $3.8 million ARPA-E grant to Sandia National Labs and the U of Rochester will help smooth laser beams to increase output of a promising Sandia fusion technique called MagLIF.

Funder: DOE/Advanced Research Projects Agency Energy

Sandia's Z machine helps solve Saturn's 2-billion-year age problem

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Data from Z-machine experiments at Sandia National Laboratories may help explain why Saturn appears 2 billion years younger than its neighbor Jupiter in some computer simulations.

Journal: Science
Funder: National Nuclear Security Administration

Analyzing ocean mixing reveals insight on climate

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory have developed a computer model that clarifies the complex processes driving ocean mixing in the vast eddies that swirl across hundreds of miles of open ocean.

Journal: Journal of Physical Oceanography

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