Smaller. Cheaper. Better. A Sandia-led team has developed a way to make a magnetic material that could lead to lighter and smaller, cheaper and better-performing high-frequency transformers,... Read more
Working with two magnetic fields and a laser, all at low points of their power outputs, Sandia’s Z machine has released neutrons in an amount surprisingly close to ‘break-even... Read more
Falling particle receiver technology is attractive because it can cost-effectively capture and store heat at higher temperatures without breaking down, which is an issue for conventional mol... Read more
A robotics group at the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) has taught a six-legged crawling robot to jump, giving it remarkable acrobatic capabilities. Most land-dwelling animals with skelet... Read more
“If stochastic mapping was widely used now, perhaps outbreaks, such the recent ones involving salmonella, could be more quickly tracked down and contained” Uncovering the sources of fr... Read more
The winds of change have blown VAWTs’ way once more. Sandia National Laboratories’ wind energy researchers are re-evaluating vertical axis wind turbines (VAWTs) to help solve some of the pro... Read more
Self-sealing valves also increase data reliability for airborne industrial and battlefield gas detection and point-of-contact medicine An air sampler the size of an ear plug is expected to c... Read more
Whether they use wheels, treads, or even legs, robots often have trouble extricating themselves from situations they may encounter on a space mission. Read more