ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories achieved a record-breaking economic impact of $5.2 billion for 2024, surpassing the previous year’s figure by more than $423 million.

WASHINGTON, D.C – Hundreds of thousands of people will descend on Washington, D.C., for the 47th Presidential Inauguration on Jan. 20. Keeping the crowds safe is a top priority for first responders and security personnel.

The MMRI Summer Fellowship is a 10-week hands-on scientific training program for undergraduate and graduate students. The 2025 fellowship will take place from Monday, May 19, 2025, through Friday, July 25, 2025, at the MMRI campus, located at 2150 Bleecker Street, Utica, New York. The program is open to both local students and students from across the country. Fellows can expect to engage in hands-on research, receive mentorship from some of the nation’s leading researchers and gain valuable experience in the field.

Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a new automated testing capability for semiconductor devices, which is newly available to researchers and industry partners in the Grid Research Integration and Deployment Center, or GRID-C.

Researchers in Kennesaw State University’s mHealth Research Lab are looking to innovate the healthcare marketplace by developing mHealth systems (apps) that can be accessed on a standard smartphone. The lab has been active in developing applications to combat unregulated screen addiction challenges among children and leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to care for patients with Alzheimer's disease and Alzheimer's disease-related dementias.

Pandora, NASA’s newest exoplanet mission, is one step closer to launch with the completion of the spacecraft bus, which provides the structure, power, and other systems that will enable the mission to carry out its work.

Kevin Yager, the Electronic Nanomaterials group leader at the Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN), has articulated an overarching vision for the role of AI in scientific research. It’s called a science exocortex — “exo” meaning outside and “cortex” referencing the information processing layer of the human brain. Rather than simple chatbots and scientific assistants, the conceptualized exocortex will be an extension of a scientist’s brain. Researchers will interact with it through conversation, without the need for any invasive brain-computer interfaces.