A battery-like device could act as an artificial synapse within computing systems intended to imitate the brain’s efficiency and ability to learn. The brain’s capacity for simultaneously lea... Read more
Technique should benefit smart phones and self-driving cars Whetstone, a software tool that sharpens the output of artificial neurons, has enabled neural computer networks to process informa... Read more
An electromagnetic pulse, or EMP, emitted by a nuclear weapon exploded high above the United States could disable the electronic circuits of many devices vital to military defense and modern... Read more
Sandia-led team designs zero-emissions marine research vessel Marine research could soon be possible without the risk of polluting either the air or the ocean. It’s thanks to a new ship desi... Read more
Sandia, University of California project aimed at reducing cost of hydrogen fuel cells Replacing your everyday gas guzzler with a hydrogen fueled car could drastically reduce your carbon foo... Read more
Compared to wind and solar energy, wave energy has remained relatively expensive and hard to capture, but engineers from Sandia National Laboratories are working to change that by drawing in... Read more
Sandia National Laboratories engineers have developed new fractal-like, concentrating solar power receivers for small- to medium-scale use that are up to 20 percent more effective at absorbi... Read more
A recent discovery by Sandia National Laboratories researchers may unlock the potential of biofuel waste — and ultimately make biofuels competitive with petroleum. Fuel made from plants is m... Read more
Add rapid, mobile testing for Zika and other viruses to the list of things that smartphone technology is making possible. Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have developed a smartph... Read more
Room temperature coatings make design, fabrication flexible Researcher Pylin Sarobol explains an elegant process for ultrafine-grained ceramic coatings in a somewhat inelegant way: sub-micro... Read more
Sandia National Laboratories researchers have shown it’s possible to make transistors and diodes from advanced semiconductor materials that could perform much better than silicon, the workho... Read more
One of the biggest untapped clean energy sources on the planet — wave energy — could one day power millions of homes across the U.S. But more than a century after the first tests of the powe... Read more
Sandia explores neural computing to extend Moore’s Law Computation is stuck in a rut. The integrated circuits that powered the past 50 years of technological revolution are reaching their ph... Read more
Sandia researchers decode metabolic pathway of soil bacterium that thrives on lignin Abundant, chock full of energy and bound so tightly that the only way to release its energy is through co... Read more
