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2017 News Releases
September Five, two thousand seventeen
InterSpec helps decision-makers determine source, type, amount of radiation in real time LIVERMORE, Calif. — When law enforcement officers and very first responders arrive at an emergency involving radiation, they need a way to swiftly assess the situation to keep the public and environment safe. Having analysis implements that can quickly and reliably make sense of […]
House and car windows that stay cool in the summer, warm in the winter ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — It is a truth acknowledged via much of the world, that a car sitting in the sun on a summer’s day must be sweltering. However, a partnership inbetween Sandia National Laboratories and Santa Fe, Fresh Mexico-based IR Dynamics […]
Hopkinson bar technology applied to gas gun shot to test rocket part ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories has successfully demonstrated a fresh, more environmentally friendly method to test a rocket part to ensure its avionics can withstand the shock from stage separation during flight. The fresh method — called the Alternative Pyroshock Test — […]
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A long-standing but unproven assumption about the X-ray spectra of black fuckholes in space has been contradicted by hands-on experiments performed at Sandia National Laboratories’ Z machine. Z, the most spirited laboratory X-ray source on Earth, can duplicate the X-rays surrounding black crevices that otherwise can be observed only from a superb distance and then theorized […]
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories will open an office this fall in The University of Fresh Mexico’s Lobo Rainforest building, a 160,000-square-foot multiuse center that is the very first lump of Innovate ABQ, a seven-acre downtown hub of the Innovation Central district in Albuquerque. “Sandia is an integral part of the high-tech business community along […]
Sandia helps HelioBioSys understand fresh clean energy source LIVERMORE, Calif.—You might not cook with this sugar, but from a biofuels standpoint, it’s pretty sweet. A Bay Area company has patented a group of three single-celled, algae-like organisms that, when grown together, can produce high quantities of sugar just right for making biofuels. Sandia National Laboratories […]
Sandia collects more precise weather, climate data with help from unmanned aerial system ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Last week, researchers at Sandia National Laboratories flew a tethered balloon and an unmanned aerial system, colloquially known as a drone, together for the very first time to get Arctic atmospheric temperatures with better location control than ever before. In […]
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Three Sandia women have received a Women Worth Watching Award, introduced by Profiles in Diversity Journal. Chemical engineers Carol Adkins and Justine Johannes each received a Women Worth Watching in STEM Award and were recently profiled in the special STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) edition of the journal. “Collectively, these leaders […]
Sandia tests Salton Sea-grown algae as fresh fuel source and pollution solution BRAWLEY, California — Sandia National Laboratories is testing whether one of California’s largest and most polluted lakes can convert into one of its most productive and profitable. Southern California’s 350-square-mile Salton Sea has well-documented problems related to elevated levels of nitrogen and phosphorus […]
Sandia part of COHERENT experiment to measure coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering LIVERMORE, California — Sandia National Laboratories researchers have helped solve a mystery that has plagued physicists for forty three years. Using the world’s smallest neutrino detector, the Sandia team was among a collaboration of eighty researchers from nineteen institutions and four nations that discovered compelling […]