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Theory aims to describe fundamental properties of materials

February 15, 2007 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Gold is shiny, diamonds are transparent, and iron is magnetic. Why is that?

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Sandia helps develop new wind turbine blade design

February 7, 2007 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A new wind turbine blade design that researchers at Sandia National Laboratories developed in partnership with Knight & Carver (K&C) of San Diego promises to be more efficient than current designs. It should significantly reduce the cost-of-energy (COE) of...

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Sandia develops next generation of screening devices

January 22, 2007 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. —It might not be science fiction much longer.

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Sandia computer simulation monitors traffic in contraband nuclear material

January 17, 2007 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A Sandia National Laboratories researcher has developed a simulation program designed to track the illicit trade in fissile and nonfissile radiological material well enough to predict who is building the next nuclear weapon and where they are doing it.

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Sandia’s “OVIS” now available as open-source software

January 17, 2007 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — The initial version of “OVIS” — a software tool developed by Sandia National Laboratories that provides intelligent, real-time monitoring of computational computer clusters — is now available for free download at http://ovis.ca.sandia.gov.

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Sandia MiniSAR flies for first time on unmanned aerial system

January 9, 2007 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The Miniaturized Synthetic Aperture Radar (MiniSAR) developed by Sandia National Laboratories flew for the first time on a Lockheed Martin unmanned aerial system (UAS) recently, taking images in flight.

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Discover magazine recognizes Sandia physicist Mark Boslough

January 8, 2007 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Discover magazine has recognized work done by Sandia National Laboratories physicist Mark Boslough as one of the “Top 100 Science Stories of 2006.”

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Sandia researchers study possibility that lightning was cause of Sago Mine disaster

December 18, 2006 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — In early November a team of staff members from Sandia National Laboratories visited the Sago Mine near Buckhannon, W.Va. to study the possibility that lightning was the cause of the Jan. 2, 2006 fatal explosion that killed 12 miners.

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water

Sandia formalizes agreement with Bi-National Lab

December 13, 2006 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A memorandum of understanding between Sandia National Laboratories and the Bi-National Sustainability Laboratory will be signed at an official ceremony Friday, Dec. 15, at 10 a.m. at Santa Teresa, N.M. The agreement will formalize the relationship between the

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Sandia researchers develop better sensor detection system

December 4, 2006 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — By integrating readily available generic sensors with a more sophisticated sensor, researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have developed a detection system that promises to make it easier to catch perpetrators trying to infiltrate prohibited areas.

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Sandia researchers Jonathan Van Houten (left) and Jeremy Giron hold a Labs-designed sophisticated sensor that interacts with smaller off-the-shelf sensors like those seen in the foreground.

Sandia research to focus on early detection of harmful algal blooms (HABs)

November 28, 2006 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Sandia National Laboratories researchers Todd Lane and Victoria VanderNoot have been awarded a research grant to develop a technology that can successfully detect deadly toxins from harmful algal blooms (HABs). The funding is provided by the Cooperative Instit

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water

Sandia researcher Amanda Jokerst injects a sample into a handheld microseparations platform for analysis. Jokerst and others at Sandia aim to optimize the micro-separations process for a sub-set of relevant toxins found in harmful algal blooms (HABs) and establish the laboratory-based protocols for sample preparation.

Thunderbird Linux Cluster ranks 6th in Top500 supercomputing Race

November 14, 2006 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. —Sandia National Laboratories’ 8960-processor Thunderbird Linux cluster, developed in collaboration with Dell, Inc. and Cisco, maintained its sixth position in the Top500 Supercomputers by achieving an improved overall performance of 53.0 teraflops, an 18.5 perc

Categories: Computing

John Zepper inspects a Thunderbird supercomputer component under the Sandia Thunderbird insignia.

Red Storm upgrade lifts Sandia supercomputer to 2nd in world, but 1st in scalability, say researchers

November 14, 2006 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A $15 million upgrade to Sandia’s Red Storm computer has increased its peak speed from 41.5 to 124.4 teraflops in a computing terrain in which a single teraflop was a big deal only 6 years ago.

Categories: Computing

Sandia's long row of Red Storm cabinets give hints of the supercomputer's dazzling scalability.

Sandia researchers discover way to see how a drug attaches to a cell

November 13, 2006 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories researchers John Shelnutt and Yujiang Song have discovered a better way to see where a drug attaches to a cell through a new process that produces novel hollow platinum nanostructures.

Categories: Nanotechnology

Electron microscope images of hollow platinum nanocages at different magnifications.

Sandia, UNM researchers show brain injury may occur within one millisecond after head hits car windshield

November 7, 2006 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Research by a Sandia National Laboratories engineer and a University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center neurologist shows that brain injury may occur within one millisecond after a human head is thrust into a windshield as a result of a car accident.

Categories: Bioscience / Medical Research

MODELING BRAIN INJURY — Sandia engineer Paul Taylor, left and Corey Ford, neurologist at the University of New Mexico’s Department of Neurology, study models of early traumatic brain injury.

Z machine melts diamond to puddle

November 2, 2006 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia’s Z machine, by creating pressures more than 10 million times that of the atmosphere at sea level, has turned a diamond sheet into a pool of liquid.

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Sandia’s JESS® 7.0 rule engine available for licensing

November 1, 2006 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Jess® 7.0, a popular rule engine created by Sandia National Laboratories that enables software developers to embed intelligence in the form of business rules directly into their Java TM applications, is now available for licensing.

Categories: Computing

Three Sandia researchers receive ‘Better Way’ Award

October 31, 2006 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. —Three Sandia researchers together with fellow team members from Delta Airlines, Drexel University, and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) William J. Hughes Technical Center were awarded the FAA-Air Transport Association of America (ATA) Non-Destructive T

Categories: Awards, Science / Technology / Engineering

Fifth annual Homeland Security Conference to be held in Albuquerque this week

October 23, 2006 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The fifth annual statewide Homeland Security Conference will be held Oct. 24-26 at the Albuquerque Marriott Pyramid North (5151 San Francisco Rd. NE).

Categories: Homeland security

Sandia researchers develop contaminant warning program for EPA to monitor water systems in real time

October 10, 2006 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories researchers are working with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), University of Cincinnati and Argonne National Laboratory to develop contaminant warning systems that can monitor municipal water systems to determine ...

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water

JUST CHECKING — Bill Hart, project lead for the Sandia team that developed water system software, does some field checking in the Albuquerque foothills.

LOGIIC helps keep oil, gas control systems safe

October 9, 2006 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — For the past 12 months, Sandia National Laboratories has served as the lead national lab in Project LOGIIC (Linking the Oil and Gas Industry to Improve Cyber Security). The project was created to keep U.S. oil and gas control systems safe and secure, and to...

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

LOGIIC team members Bryan Richardson and Weston Henry demonstrate the project's monitoring solution hosted at Sandia's Center for Control Systems Security.

DOE selects Sandia as National Laboratory Center for Solid-State Lighting Research and Development

October 5, 2006 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Samuel W. Bodman announced today that Sandia National Laboratories is the new home of the National Laboratory Center for Solid-State Lighting Research and Development. He made the announcement at a news conference...

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From the left, Jerry Simmons, senior manager of Sandia’s Energy Sciences Department, briefs U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman, Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N.M., Rep. Heather Wilson, R-N.M., Los Alamos National Laboratory Director Michael Anastasio, Sandia President and Laboratories Director Tom Hunter, and Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M, at the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies. Shortly after, Bodman announced that Sandia is the new home of the National Laboratory Center for Solid-State Lighting Research and Development.

Sandia releases free to the public Acro 1.0 optimization software

October 4, 2006 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Acro 1.0 optimization software, developed by a Sandia National Laboratories team led by Bill Hart, has recently been released to the public and is available at no charge.

Categories: Computing, Science / Technology / Engineering

Buying, selling energy being conducted in safer environment due to Sandia standards assessments

October 4, 2006 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Companies buying and selling natural gas and electricity are conducting business in a safer environment thanks to three information standards assessments done by Sandia National Laboratories since 2000.

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Science / Technology / Engineering

Phase diagram of water revised by Sandia researchers

October 3, 2006 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Supercomputer simulations by two Sandia researchers have significantly altered the theoretical diagram universally used by scientists to understand the characteristics of water at extreme temperatures and pressures.

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Science / Technology / Engineering

The electrically conducting structure of metallic water occurs at a more accessible part of the water phase diagram than formerly thought. Here, a snapshot from a first-principles computer simulation demonstrates the atomic disorder. Red spheres are hydrogen atoms, white spheres are oxygen atoms, and the electron density from a partially occupied electron state responsible for the conductivity is shown as gold.

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