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Preventing collateral damage in cancer treatment
October 23, 2023 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Using a simple concept and a patented Sandia sensor that detects radioactive materials, a team at Sandia National Laboratories has developed a patch to stop damage to healthy tissue during proton radiotherapy, one of the best tools to target certain cancerous tumors. “This is an important need,...
Categories: Bioscience / Medical Research, Materials Science, Nuclear Weapons, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact, Transportation
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Testing sensors in fog to make future transportation safer
November 17, 2021 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Self-flying drones and autonomous taxis that can safely operate in fog may sound futuristic, but new research at Sandia National Laboratories' fog facility is bringing the future closer.[caption id="" align="alignright" width="272"] Watch Sandia Nationa…
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Fog chamber video

Cleared for takeoff
June 15, 2021 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A 30-year program that made flying safer through continued innovations in airplane inspection, maintenance and airworthiness research has ended its tenure at Sandia National Laboratories. The Federal Aviation Administration Airworthiness Assurance Center, or AANC, operated by Sandia for the FAA, is moving to the National Institute of...
Categories: History, Science / Technology / Engineering, Transportation
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Successful crash test meets major milestone for nuclear deterrence program
October 8, 2020 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A full-scale crash test involving a semitruck impacting the side of the first prototype of a new weapons transporter successfully took place at Sandia National Laboratories this summer.[caption id="" align="alignright" width="250"] Data from the Mobile …
Categories: Coronavirus, Homeland security, Nuclear Weapons, Science / Technology / Engineering, Transportation
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Picture of mobile guardian transport

AI center to combine hardware, software for practical gains
October 31, 2019 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Washington, and the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta are launching a research center that combines hardware design and software development to improve artificial intelligence technologies that will ultimately benefit the public. AI is an emerging field with...
Categories: Chemistry, Computing, Cybersecurity, Homeland security, Materials Science, Military / Defense, Physics, Science / Technology / Engineering, Transportation
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Some like it cryogenic
October 15, 2018 • [caption id="" align="alignright" width="250"] Rendering of First Element Fuel’s liquid hydrogen retail fuel pump. The pump includes a canopy on top and the fuel storage is pictured in the rear. (Image courtesy of First Element Fuel) Click on the thumbnail for a high-resol…
Categories: Renewable energy, Transportation
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Rendering of First Element Fuel’s liquid hydrogen retail fuel pump. The pump includes a canopy on top and the fuel storage is pictured in the rear.

Smarter, safer bridges with Sandia sensors
July 3, 2018 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Along with flying cars and instantaneous teleportation, smart bridges, roads and subway lines that can send out warnings when they’re damaged are staples of futuristic transportation systems in science fiction. Sandia National Laboratories has worked with Structural Monitoring Systems PLC, a U.K.-based manufacturer of structural health monitoring...
Categories: Conferences / Symposia, Science / Technology / Engineering, Transportation
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Man positions small, clear sensor on an old rusty bridge. Blue sky in background. In his other hand is a complex control system.

New chemical mechanisms identified on road to cleaner, more efficient combustion
March 8, 2018 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Sandia National Laboratories researchers have identified key chemical mechanisms for the first time that add to the fundamental knowledge of combustion chemistry and might lead to cleaner combustion in engines.[caption id="" align="alignright" width="25…
Categories: Chemistry, Science / Technology / Engineering, Transportation
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Researcher Nils Hansen

New engine optics to fuel future research
November 3, 2017 • Sandia team develops optical diagnostic that helps improve fuel economy while reducing emissions[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="250"] Sandia National Laboratories researchers Scott Skeen, left, and Lyle Pickett, center, and former Sandia researcher Julien Manin discu…
Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Science / Technology / Engineering, Transportation
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Clean Engine Optics

Optimizing hydrogen-powered passenger ferries focus of Sandia Labs study
July 13, 2017 • LIVERMORE, California — Maritime transportation has emerged as one solution to the traffic gridlock that plagues coastal cities. But with urban passenger ferries operating in sensitive environments and tourist areas, hydrogen fuel cell-powered passenger ferries offer a qui…
Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Renewable energy, Transportation
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Joe Pratt and Myra Blaylock

Reversing the curse
May 3, 2017 • Sandia develops math techniques to improve computational efficiency in quantum chemistry[caption id="" align="alignright" width="250"] Sandia National Laboratories researchers Prashant Rai, left, Habib Najm, center, and Khachik Sargsyan discuss mathematical techniques used t…
Categories: Computing, Energy / Environment / Water, Transportation
Sandia researchers develop mathematical methods

Aircraft inspectors have new Sandia course to help detect composite material damage
November 28, 2016, Media Advisory • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — As manufacturers build more wings, fuselages and other major commercial aircraft parts out of solid-laminate composite materials, Sandia National Laboratories has shown that aircraft inspectors need training to better detect damage in these structures. So the Airworthiness Assurance Center — operated by Sandia for the Federal Aviation...
Categories: Homeland security, Science / Technology / Engineering, Transportation
Composite Nondestructive Inspection Techniques course

Sandia explores aggressive high-efficiency sparkplug-free gasoline auto engines
June 13, 2016 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories’ Combustion Research Facility are helping to develop sparkplug-free engines that will help meet ambitious automotive fuel economy targets of 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025.[caption id="" align="alignleft" wid…
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Isaac Ekoto

Way cheaper catalyst may lower fuel costs for hydrogen-powered cars
October 7, 2015 • ‘ ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. —Sandia National Laboratories researchers seeking to make hydrogen a less expensive fuel for cars have upgraded a catalyst nearly as cheap as dirt — molybdenum disulfide, “molly” for short — to stand in for platinum, a rare element with the moonlike price of about $900 an ounce....
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Sandia researcher
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