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Sandia National Laboratories is a U.S. Department of Energy national lab researching nuclear security, quantum computing, and energy technologies.
Texas A&M simulations show that ions inside a zinc-based metal-organic framework make it easier for electrons to move through the material. The coupling matters for adaptive, neuron-like analog hardware, but the study maps a mechanism in one material and builds no device.
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The Denver startup left stealth with $8 million and a factory-built supercritical CO2 block that sits at a simple-cycle turbine's exhaust. Its case to operators is that the turbine itself needs no permit work.
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The Sandia-led QUOPS benchmark rates a quantum computer by the largest useful circuit it can finish and how fast it finishes it. Across Google, IBM and Quantinuum machines the best score was 1,824, against a chemistry target of 250 million.
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CUDA-Q Logical lets researchers swap error-correction codes and hardware architectures and recompute the resource estimate. Sandia's QUOPS benchmark for logical-qubit readiness now reaches the industry through NVIDIA's platform.
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Xcimer took investment from RTX Ventures and Pacific Fusion signed an agreement with the NNSA. TechCrunch's reporting shows defense interest landing on machines that already exist, with both plant programs still running.
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Sandia's headline number describes the light delivered to the atoms inside a vacuum chamber, and the question for anyone sizing a deployed unit is what the lasers, electronics and pumps around it draw.
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Elliot Fuller puts ETCRAM at 100 times the precision of existing analog memory and at least a thousand times the dynamic range. Anyone specifying memory for an edge sensor still has no bit depth and no endurance number.
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Jongmin Lee's group at Sandia cut the optical power needed to guide cesium atoms to between a quarter and a sixth of earlier approaches, using a fiber 420 nanometers across, in work aimed at navigation when GPS is jammed.
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A Sandia-led team pulled the energy of New Glenn's May 29 hotfire explosion out of infrasound recorded as far away as northeast Texas, putting the blast at an estimated 0.131 kilotons of TNT equivalent using infrasound data alone.
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The first converted reentry body for the W76 came in ahead of schedule. What NNSA certified is a conversion line, and the number it did not publish is how many units a year that line can push out.
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LLNL says its Nature Physics measurement reconciles diamond melting data with quantum simulations, and that applying it to inertial-confinement fusion could triple energy gain.
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HiddenLayer says it will contribute to Prometheus, the Idaho-led federal effort to put AI into reactor work. The Phase II selection belongs to the consortium, and still depends on appropriations.
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