Unleashing the Power of Clay: Is It Key to Capturing Carbon Dioxide From the Air?
Scientists at Sandia National Laboratories study clay for snatching carbon dioxide directly from air. Although, the atmospheric level of carbon dioxide — a gas that…
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High-Tech Quantum Sensors: Navigating When GPS Goes Dark
High-tech quantum sensors could guide vehicles without satellites, if they can handle the ride. When talking about quantum inertial sensors, words like “tough” or “rugged”…
New Invention Triggers One of Quantum Mechanics’ Strangest and Most Useful Phenomena
Through the Quantum Looking Glass By helping scientists control a strange but useful phenomenon of quantum mechanics, an ultrathin invention could make future computing, sensing,…
Powerful Sandia Supercomputer Simulation Shows Diamond Melting at High Pressure
Hardware and software improvements shorten ‘run time’ from year to a day. A Sandia National Laboratories supercomputer simulation model called SNAP that rapidly predicts the…
New Performance Benchmark: Measuring a Quantum Computer’s Power Just Got Faster and More Accurate
Scientists at Sandia National Labs invent new yardstick for benchmarking performance. What does a quantum computer have in common with a top draft pick in…
Underground Tests Dig Into How Heat Affects Nuclear Waste Containers in a Salt-Bed Repository
Study to refine computer models, inform policymakers for future spent nuclear fuel disposal. Scientists from Sandia, Los Alamos and Lawrence Berkeley national laboratories have just…
This Curious Device Could Usher In GPS-Free Navigation
Sandia shows advanced wayfinding tech could finally become compact, fieldable. Don’t let the titanium metal walls or the sapphire windows fool you. It’s what’s on…
Free Open-Access Quantum Computer Now Operational
Scientists worldwide can use ion-based testbed at Sandia National Laboratories. A new Department of Energy open-access quantum computing testbed is ready for the public. Scientists…
International Research Team Begins Uncovering Mystery Lurking Beneath the Arctic Ocean
New study on submarine permafrost suggests locked greenhouse gases are emerging. Something lurks beneath the Arctic Ocean. While it’s not a monster, it has largely…
Super-Earth Atmospheres Probed With Sandia National Lab’s Powerful Z Machine
A step in the search for life elsewhere in the galaxy. The huge forces generated by the Z machine at Sandia National Laboratories are being…
New Equipment Finds the Flaws in Everything – From Airplanes to Cell Phones
Fracture technology innovation allows faster materials testing. Tim Briggs has built a career at Sandia National Laboratories tearing and breaking things apart with his team…
Scientists Test Creative Sandwich of Materials to Protect Against COVID-19 As Well as N95 Respirators
A media comprised of a sandwich of materials, tested by Sandia National Laboratories, is being manufactured into N95-like respirators that could be used in local…
New Protection for US Energy Grid and Nuclear Weapons Systems
To deter attempts to disable U.S. electrical utilities and to defend U.S. nuclear weapon systems from evolving technological threats, Sandia National Laboratories has begun two…
Biologically Inspired Membrane Separates and Captures Greenhouse Gases
A biologically inspired membrane intended to cleanse carbon dioxide almost completely from the smoke of coal-fired power plants has been developed by scientists at Sandia…
Hands-On Tests at Sandia’s Z Machine Contradict Black Hole Models
Hands-on experiments performed at Sandia National Laboratories’ Z machine contradict a long-standing but unproven assumption about the X-ray spectra of black holes. Z, the most…
New Technique Could Benefit Diamond-Based Quantum Computers
In a newly published study, researchers from Harvard University, Sandia National Laboratories, and MIT reveal a new technique for creating targeted defects in diamond materials….
New Circuits That Can Control Light and Sound
A team of researchers has developed hybrid technologies that can control light and sound, allowing information to be stored, filtered, and manipulated with far greater…
Evidence Against the Hypothesis That a Comet Impact Wiped Out Prehistoric Humans
New research provides evidence against the hypothesis that a large comet impact or airburst caused the termination of the Clovis culture. Comet explosions did not…
