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Researchers Race to Build the World's Smallest Atomic Clock, Again
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Researchers Race to Build the World's Smallest Atomic Clock, Again

Responding to a DARPA challenge, research teams at Sandia National Laboratories are working to build smaller, more accurate atomic clocks. 

Can An Algorithm Help Scientists Write Better Quantum Programs?
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Can An Algorithm Help Scientists Write Better Quantum Programs?

Timothy Proctor, a quantum physicist at Sandia National Laboratories, is leading a research project to help quantum computer scientists write better programs that...

Armoring Satellites to Survive and Operate Through Attacks
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Armoring Satellites to Survive and Operate Through Attacks

Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have launched a seven-year mission campaign to develop the science, technology, and architecture needed to protect satellite...

700,000 Submunitions Demilitarized by Sandia-Designed Robotics System
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700,000 Submunitions Demilitarized by Sandia-Designed Robotics System

More than 700,000 Multiple Launch Rocket System submunitions have been demilitarized since the U.S. Army started using an automated nine-robot system conceptualized...

Robot Rodeo Offers Bomb Squads an ­nbeatable Experience
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Robot Rodeo Offers Bomb Squads an ­nbeatable Experience

Sandia National Laboratories later this month will host the 11th annual Western National Robot Rodeo, a four-day event where civilian and military bomb squad teams...

Honey, I Shrunk the Circuit
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Honey, I Shrunk the Circuit

Sandia National Laboratories researchers have shown it's possible to make transistors and diodes from advanced semiconductor materials that could perform much better...

Cleanroom Inventor Honored Posthumously By National Inventors Hall of Fame
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Cleanroom Inventor Honored Posthumously By National Inventors Hall of Fame

The inventor of the modern cleanroom, Willis Whitfield, will be honored posthumously by the National Inventors Hall of Fame for a technology that revolutionized...

'popcorn' Particle Pathways Promise Better Lithium-Ion Batteries
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'popcorn' Particle Pathways Promise Better Lithium-Ion Batteries

Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have reported findings on a material that could lead to safer and longer-lasting lithium-ion batteries than those...

Computer Model Solves Sandia's Steel Problem
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Computer Model Solves Sandia's Steel Problem

Sandia National Laboratories researchers Lisa Deibler and Arthur Brown had a ready-made problem for their computer modeling work when they were looking to improve...

Cleanroom Invented By Sandia Physicist Still ­sed 50 Years Later
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Cleanroom Invented By Sandia Physicist Still ­sed 50 Years Later

When Willis Whitfield invented the modern-day cleanroom 50 years ago, researchers and industrialists thought it was too good to be true. But within a few years...

Lifelike, Cost-Effective Robotic Sandia Hand Can Disable Ieds
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Lifelike, Cost-Effective Robotic Sandia Hand Can Disable Ieds

Sandia National Laboratories has developed a cost-effective robotic hand that can be used in disarming improvised explosive devices (IEDs).

Super Send-Off for Sandia's Red Storm
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Super Send-Off for Sandia's Red Storm

From helping destroy an errant satellite to aiding a foundering computer company, the Red Storm supercomputer was a forerunner machine without peer.

'Smart Machine' Enhances Navy Pilot Training
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'Smart Machine' Enhances Navy Pilot Training

Navy pilots and other flight specialists soon will have a new "smart machine" installed in flight training simulators that learns from expert instructors to more...
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