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Released: 1-Jul-2019 10:05 AM EDT
Personalized Medicine Software Vulnerability Uncovered by Sandia Researchers
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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.

   
Released: 27-Jun-2019 10:05 AM EDT
Portable gas detection shrinks to new dimensions
Sandia National Laboratories

A sensor for detecting toxic gases is now smaller, faster and more reliable. Its performance sets it up for integration in a highly sensitive portable system for detecting chemical weapons. Better miniature sensors can also rapidly detect airborne toxins where they occur, providing key information to help emergency personnel respond safely and effectively to an incident.

Released: 26-Jun-2019 11:05 AM EDT
Sandia Labs to double assistance to small businesses
Sandia National Laboratories

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.

Released: 24-Jun-2019 12:05 PM EDT
Don’t set it and forget it — scan it and fix it with tech that detects wind blade damage
Sandia National Laboratories

Drones and crawling robots outfitted with special scanning technology could help wind blades stay in service longer, which may help lower the cost of wind energy at a time when blades are getting bigger, pricier and harder to transport, Sandia National Laboratories researchers say. As part of the Department of Energy’s Blade Reliability Collaborative work, funded by the Wind Energy Technologies Office, Sandia researchers partnered with energy businesses to develop machines that noninvasively inspect wind blades for hidden damage while being faster and more detailed than traditional inspections with cameras.

Released: 20-Jun-2019 12:05 PM EDT
Rooftop solar panels get boost from Sandia tool that previews a year on grid in minutes
Sandia National Laboratories

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.

Released: 10-Jun-2019 6:55 PM EDT
New look at old data leads to cleaner engines
Sandia National Laboratories

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.“Our findings will allow the design of new fuels and improved combustion strategies,” said Nils Hansen, Sandia researcher and lead author of the research.

Released: 6-Jun-2019 12:05 PM EDT
Thwarting oil-pipeline corrosion by identifying a nanoscale villain
Sandia National Laboratories

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.

Released: 23-May-2019 10:05 AM EDT
Sandia launches a bus into space
Sandia National Laboratories

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 that were part of the National Nuclear Security Administration’s HOT SHOT program.

Released: 9-May-2019 11:05 AM EDT
National security, science collaboration bolstered by new agreement
Sandia National Laboratories

Sandia National Laboratories 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, including ongoing projects. The agreement will immediately launch two projects focusing on radiation testing and developing particle detector designs for the European particle physics laboratory CERN.

Released: 2-May-2019 10:05 AM EDT
High-speed experiments improve hypersonic flight predictions
Sandia National Laboratories

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — When traveling at five times the speed of sound or faster, the tiniest bit of turbulence is more than a bump in the road, said the Sandia National Laboratories aerospace engineer who for the first time characterized the vibrational effect of the pressure field beneath one of these tiny hypersonic turbulent spots.

Released: 18-Apr-2019 7:00 AM EDT
Future hypersonics could be artificially intelligent
Sandia National Laboratories

Sandia announced today the formation of Autonomy New Mexico, a national academic research coalition whose mission is to create artificially intelligent aerospace systems.

Released: 4-Apr-2019 2:05 PM EDT
Fields of gold
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.

Released: 27-Mar-2019 7:00 AM EDT
Mirage software automates design of optical metamaterials
Sandia National Laboratories

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.

26-Feb-2019 4:05 PM EST
Sandia Spiking Tool Improves Artificially Intelligent Devices
Sandia National Laboratories

The aptly named software Whetstone, which greatly reduces the amount of circuitry needed to perform autonomous tasks, is expected to improve the artificial intelligence of mobile phones, self-driving cars and automated interpretation of images.

Released: 21-Feb-2019 12:00 PM EST
700,000 submunitions demilitarized by Sandia-designed robotics system
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.

Released: 18-Feb-2019 12:05 PM EST
Sandia research investigates how organic reactions affect Earth’s atmosphere
Sandia National Laboratories

LIVERMORE, Calif. — Volatile organic compounds can be found in the air — everywhere. A wide range of sources, including from plants, cooking fuels and household cleaners, emit these compounds directly. They also can be formed in the atmosphere through a complex network of photochemical reactions.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.

Released: 11-Feb-2019 10:15 AM EST
Three Sandia Labs researchers earn national honors in leadership and technology
Sandia National Laboratories

Three Sandia National Laboratories researchers--Warren Davis, Quincy Johnson and Olivia Underwood--were honored at the BEYA (Black Engineer of the Year) STEM Global Competitiveness Conference for their leadership and technological achievements.

Released: 24-Jan-2019 10:05 AM EST
Modeling terrorist behavior with Sandia social-cultural assessments
Sandia National Laboratories

A team of Sandia social-behavioral scientists and computational modelers recently completed a two-year effort, dubbed “Mustang,” to assess interactions and behaviors of two extremist groups. The model suggested several communication options that are most likely to reduce the recruitment and violence of the extremist groups over time.

Released: 23-Jan-2019 11:05 AM EST
Second Act: Sandia retirees band together to help small businesses with tech challenges
Sandia National Laboratories

Technology Retirees Economic Catalysts (TREC) was established to connect Sandia National Laboratories retirees with small businesses that need technical and other expertise.

Released: 17-Jan-2019 8:05 AM EST
Engineered light could improve health, food, suggests Sandia Labs researcher in Nature paper
Sandia National Laboratories

Controlled light can help regulate human health and productivity by eliciting various hormonal responses. Tailored LED wavelengths and intensities also can efficiently stimulate plant growth, alter their shapes and increase their nutritional value

Released: 10-Jan-2019 8:00 AM EST
Heat It and Read It
Sandia National Laboratories

Unlike most medical diagnostic devices which can perform only one type of test — either protein or nucleic acid tests — Sandia’s SpinDx can now perform both. This allows it to identify nearly any cause of illness, including viruses, bacteria, toxins or immune system markers of chemical agent exposure.

   
Released: 7-Jan-2019 12:05 PM EST
Quantum computing steps further ahead with new projects at Sandia
Sandia National Laboratories

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Quantum computing is a term that periodically flashes across the media sky like heat lightning in the desert: brilliant, attention-getting and then vanishing from the public’s mind with no apparent aftereffects.Yet a multimillion dollar international effort to build quantum computers is hardly going away.

Released: 3-Jan-2019 10:05 AM EST
Sandia Microneedles Technique May Mean Quicker Diagnoses of Major Illnesses
Sandia National Laboratories

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — When people are in the early stages of an undiagnosed disease, immediate tests that lead to treatment are the best first steps. But a blood draw — usually performed by a medical professional armed with an uncomfortably large needle — might not be quickest, least painful or most effective method, according to new research.

Released: 7-Dec-2018 12:05 PM EST
Friendly electromagnetic pulse improves survival for electronics
Sandia National Laboratories

A "friendly" electromagnetic pulse (EMP) at Sandia National Laboratories enables military users and others to better insulate their product against an energy pulse that could be set off by a nuclear weapon exploded high above the United States.

Released: 4-Dec-2018 7:05 PM EST
Support group aims to curb fears of talking about addiction at Sandia Labs
Sandia National Laboratories

A Sandia National Laboratories employee started a Family and Friends of Addicts Support Group to give the workforce a place to talk where others "get it."

Released: 28-Nov-2018 11:05 AM EST
Responders provide technical expertise in case of nuclear weapons accidents
Sandia National Laboratories

Decades ago, technical experts from the national labs responded in an ad hoc manner to accidents involving nuclear weapons, called “broken arrows.” Thirty-two such accidents have occurred since the 1950s, so the Accident Response Group was created about five decades ago to provide technical expertise in assessing and safely resolving nuclear weapons accidents.

Released: 21-Nov-2018 5:05 PM EST
CRADA boom spurs innovation, collaboration with Sandia Labs
Sandia National Laboratories

Sandia National Laboratories signed more Cooperative Research and Development Agreements this past fiscal year than in any previous year this century, sparking dozens of new collaborations and potential technological innovations.

Released: 15-Nov-2018 7:05 PM EST
CRADA enables resilient microgrid research between Sandia, Emera Technologies
Sandia National Laboratories

Sandia and Emera Technologies are working on microgrids, small-scale versions of interconnected electric grids that locally manage energy storage and resources, such as solar, wind and thermal systems.

Released: 8-Nov-2018 5:20 PM EST
Veterans hired at Sandia Labs triples over past year
Sandia National Laboratories

The number of military veterans hired at Sandia tripled the last fiscal year, and marked the highest veteran hiring rate in the history of Sandia National Laboratories.

Released: 7-Nov-2018 10:05 AM EST
Wind tunnel and lasers provide hypersonic proving ground at Sandia National Laboratories
Sandia National Laboratories

Sandia National Laboratories, with a hypersonic wind tunnel and advanced laser diagnostic technology, is in an excellent position to help U.S. defense agencies understand the physics associated with aircraft flying five times the speed of sound.

Released: 30-Oct-2018 10:05 AM EDT
Scientists, Leaders Take Home Five Awards Honoring Their Work
Sandia National Laboratories

Five Sandia National Laboratories employees with accomplishments in science, engineering, management or diversity and inclusion received career achievement and leadership awards.

   
Released: 29-Oct-2018 11:05 AM EDT
‘Majority Rules’ When Looking for Earthquakes, Explosions
Sandia National Laboratories

A dormant volcano in Antarctica helped researchers at Sandia National Laboratories improve sensor data readings to better detect earthquakes and explosions and tune out everyday sounds such as traffic and footsteps. Finding the ideal settings for each sensor in a network to detect vibrations in the ground, or seismic activity, can be a painstaking and manual process. Researchers at Sandia are working to change that by using software that automatically adjusts the seismic activity detection levels for each sensor. Sandia tested the new software with seismic data from the Mt. Erebus volcano in Antarctica and achieved 18 percent fewer false detections and 11 percent fewer missed detections than the original performance of the sensors on Mt. Erebus.

Released: 25-Oct-2018 11:05 AM EDT
Early biologists catch the bird … and lizard … and snake
Sandia National Laboratories

Typically known for work in national security, Sandia National Laboratories employs biologists who protect and monitor wildlife on lands controlled by the Department of Energy.

Released: 24-Oct-2018 10:00 AM EDT
Quantum research gets a boost at Sandia
Sandia National Laboratories

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The Department of Energy has awarded Sandia and Los Alamos national laboratories $8 million for quantum research — the study of the fundamental physics of all matter — at the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies.The award will fund two three-year projects enabling scientists at the two labs to build advanced tools for nanotechnology research and development.

Released: 22-Oct-2018 10:30 AM EDT
Sandia delivers first DOE sounding rocket program since 1990s
Sandia National Laboratories

A new rocket program could help cut research and development time for new weapons systems from as many as 15 years to less than five. Sandia National Laboratories developed the new program, called the High Operational Tempo Sounding Rocket Program, or HOT SHOT, and integrated it for its first launch earlier this year under the National Nuclear Security Administration's direction.

Released: 15-Oct-2018 2:05 PM EDT
Some like it cryogenic
Sandia National Laboratories

Sandia National Laboratories is helping design the next generation of hydrogen fueling stations so that they're as safe as conventional gas stations.

Released: 11-Oct-2018 9:35 AM EDT
Sandia Labs names first Jill Hruby Fellows
Sandia National Laboratories

Sandia National Laboratories has named Mercedes Taylor and Chen Wang its first Jill Hruby Fellows. The honorees have each been awarded a three-year postdoctoral fellowship in technical leadership, comprising national security-relevant research with an executive mentor.

   
Released: 10-Oct-2018 1:05 PM EDT
Sandia Researcher Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society
Sandia National Laboratories

LIVERMORE, Calif. — Sandia National Laboratories researcher Jacqueline Chen has been elected as a fellow of the American Physical Society.This honor is afforded each year to no more than 0.5 percent of the members of the society.Chen was honored “for fundamental insights into turbulence-chemistry interactions revealed through massively parallel direct numerical simulations.

Released: 27-Sep-2018 11:05 AM EDT
Small Business Recycling Ventures Propelled by Sandia Engineering
Sandia National Laboratories

Through New Mexico Small Business Assistance, Sandia is solving technical challenges to help one company reconfigure an old ethanol plant and, in a separate project, helping a cohort of companies characterize new composite materials made from forest slash.

Released: 10-Sep-2018 4:05 PM EDT
Cracking the Code to Soot Formation
Sandia National Laboratories

The longstanding mystery of soot formation, which combustion scientists have been trying to explain for decades, appears to be finally solved, thanks to research led by Sandia National Laboratories.Soot is ubiquitous and has large detrimental effects on human health, agriculture, energy-consumption efficiency, climate and air quality.

Released: 10-Sep-2018 2:05 PM EDT
Blast Tube Tests at Sandia Simulate Shock Wave Conditions Nuclear Weapons Could Face
Sandia National Laboratories

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories researchers are using a blast tube configurable to 120 feet to demonstrate how well nuclear weapons could survive the shock wave of a blast from an enemy weapon and to help validate computer modeling.

Released: 6-Sep-2018 1:05 PM EDT
Society of Women Engineers Recognizes Sandia Researcher with Its Highest Honor
Sandia National Laboratories

LIVERMORE, Calif. — Jacqueline Chen, a distinguished member of the technical staff at Sandia National Laboratories, has been recognized with an Achievement Award from the Society of Women Engineers for her impact on the engineering community and the society.This award is the highest honor given by the society and recognizes outstanding technical contributions for at least 20 years in engineering.

Released: 5-Sep-2018 1:05 PM EDT
Researchers Discover New Source of Formic Acid Over Pacific, Indian Oceans
Sandia National Laboratories

LIVERMORE, Calif. — Insights from experiments at Sandia National Laboratories designed to push chemical systems far from equilibrium allowed an international group of researchers to discover a new major source of formic acid over the Pacific and Indian oceans.The discovery was published in the July 3 issue of Nature Communications and featured on the “Editors’ Highlights” webpage.

Released: 22-Aug-2018 5:05 PM EDT
Cutting it short
Sandia National Laboratories

Gene editing technology could one day eliminate diseases currently considered incurable. Thanks to a new test developed by Sandia National Laboratories scientists, that day is closer to dawning.

Released: 20-Aug-2018 3:05 PM EDT
Progress Toward Plugging an Antibiotic Pump
Sandia National Laboratories

Using computer modeling, researchers from Sandia National Laboratories and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are helping to develop the means to prevent some deaths from infections caused by antibiotic resistant bacteria.

Released: 16-Aug-2018 10:05 AM EDT
Most Wear-Resistant Metal Alloy in the World Engineered at Sandia National Laboratories
Sandia National Laboratories

Sandia’s materials science team has engineered a platinum-gold alloy believed to be the most wear-resistant metal in the world. It’s 100 times more durable than high-strength steel, making it the first alloy, or combination of metals, in the same class as diamond and sapphire, nature’s most wear-resistant materials.

Released: 1-Aug-2018 11:05 AM EDT
Large Supercrystals Promise Superior Sensors
Sandia National Laboratories

Using an artful combination of nanotechnology and basic chemistry, Sandia National Laboratories researchers have encouraged gold nanoparticles to self-assemble into unusually large supercrystals that could significantly improve detection sensitivity to chemicals in explosives or drugs.

Released: 27-Jul-2018 10:05 AM EDT
From Concept to Commercialization: 40 Years of Concentrating Solar Power Research
Sandia National Laboratories

From testing space shuttle tiles to making electricity from sunlight, the world’s first multimegawatt solar tower has contributed to energy research, space exploration, defense testing and solar energy commercialization since it was commissioned at Sandia National Laboratories in July 1978. The solar tower is a key component of a specific type of utility-scale solar energy technology that uses hundreds of large mirrors to reflect and concentrate sunlight onto a receiver on a tower. The heat from the concentrated sunlight is absorbed by either a liquid, gas or solid and stored or used immediately in a heat exchanger to generate electricity. This type of energy, called concentrating solar power, is appealing because it can supply renewable energy — even when the sun is not shining — without using batteries for storage. To mark the National Solar Thermal Test Facility’s 40th anniversary this month, present and past Sandia leaders and researchers, industry leaders and government represen

Released: 18-Jul-2018 10:05 AM EDT
Dry Casks Take the Heat
Sandia National Laboratories

Sandia National Laboratories researchers have built a scaled test assembly that mimics a dry cask storage container for spent nuclear fuel to study how fuel temperatures change during storage and how the fuel’s peak temperatures affect the integrity of the metal cladding surrounding the spent fuel. Regulators could use the data to help verify computer simulations that show whether nuclear power utilities are complying with regulations that specify how much heat a dry cask can safely handle.

Released: 9-Jul-2018 10:05 AM EDT
Generating Electrical Power From Waste Heat
Sandia National Laboratories

Researchers from Sandia National Laboratories have developed a tiny silicon-based device that can harness what was previously called waste heat and turn it into DC power.



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