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Novel ultrafast laser detects cancer at earliest possible stage

March 22, 2005 • LOS ANGELES, Calif. — To investigate tumors, pathologists currently rely on labor-intensive microscopic examination, using century-old cell-staining methods that can take days to complete and may give false readings.

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Proof positive — The difference between a normal and cancerous liver cell is shown clearly by the location of mitochondria, as revealed by Sandia's biocavity laser. The healthy cell shows very few mitochondria near the outer cell wall; they cluster densely (red coloration) as they approach the cell's nucleous (depicted here as the black central hole). In the cancerous cell, the mitochondria are spread throughout the cell, do not cluster, and under the same lighting produce a more subdued effect.

Tiny porphyrin tubes developed by Sandia may lead to new nanodevices

March 17, 2005 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sunlight splitting water molecules to produce hydrogen using devices too small to be seen in a standard microscope. That’s a goal of a research team from the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Sandia National Laboratories. The research has captured...

Categories: Nanotechnology

GLOWING PORPHYRIN NANOTUBES -- Sandia researchers John Shelnutt and Zhongchun Wang gaze upon the glow of porphryin nanotubes caused by the nanotubes’ intense resonance light scattering activity.

Taking the terror out of terror: Sandia team re-thinks physical security for homeland defense

March 17, 2005 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Anticipating attacks from terrorists, and hardening potential targets against them, is a wearying and expensive business that could be made simpler through a broader view of the opponents’ origins, fears, and ultimate objectives, according to studies by the...

Categories: Homeland security

Sampling ‘small atmospheres’ in the tiny new worlds of MEMS

March 8, 2005 • A MEMS test unit sits under the black box that contains its atmosphere. The gold plates beside it are wiring sites. Next to the device, for size comparisons, are grains of table salt. Download 300dpi JPEG image, ‘Radant-salt-3b.jpg’, 684K (Media are welcome to download/publish..

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Arranging picopuffs Sandia National Laboratories researcher Steve Thornberg arranges picopuffs of gases from crushed MEMS devices to be sampled by his group’s unique analytic device.

Sandia underground geo-tools aid in earthquake research

March 7, 2005 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Geothermal researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have developed sensors that can be placed in hotter and higher-pressure underground environments than previous instruments, a capability that is allowing geologists worldwide to make more precise...

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Down Hole Probe Sandia National Laboratories geothermal researcher Joe Henfling fields one of Sandia’s high-temperature downhole tools.

Texas police, border agents using Labs’ sniffer to nab drug traffickers

March 2, 2005 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — On a South Texas highway local police and border agents are using a hand-held sniffer developed at Sandia National Laboratories to help stem the flow of illegal drugs northward into the U.S.

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Sandia National Laboratories researcher Dave Hannum demonstrates use of the Hound system on a bag of white powder.

Tests confirm the Explosive Destruction System’s (EDS) ability to destroy biological agents

February 15, 2005 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — From the beginning, researchers at the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Sandia National Laboratories, the creators of the Army’s Explosive Destruction System (EDS), suspected the system could, in addition to snuffing out chemical warfare material...

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The Explosive Destruction System (EDS) can be transported to sites where materiel may not be safe to store or transport.

Sandia, University of Texas System unveil multi-faceted memorandum of understanding

February 10, 2005 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories and the multi-campus University of Texas System today announced an expanded relationship. The announcement came after the UT System Board of Regents unanimously approved a new memorandum of understanding between the System and...

Categories: Community / Education

Sandia establishes Entrepreneur in Residence initiative to stimulate spin-off companies

February 3, 2005 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A new initiative at Sandia National Laboratories seeks to stimulate spin-off companies to be built around Sandia technologies that are important to the Lab's national security mission.

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Student MEMS design competition hosted by Sandia

February 1, 2005 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.— A MEMS design competition sponsored by Sandia National Laboratories will provide eight university student teams the opportunity to have their microelectromechanical designs fabricated for free, using the world's most advanced silicon surface micromachining...

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Sandia researchers develop portable device that can detect heart and gum disease instantly

January 27, 2005 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Someday in the not-too-distant future patients may visit a doctor's office, provide a sample of saliva or blood, and know in minutes if they are prone to heart disease, gum disease, or cancer. There would be no sending samples to off-site labs for analysis...

Categories: Bioscience / Medical Research

Researcher Anup Singh inserts an immunoassay chip into the microfluidic module of the hand-held device.

Online database highlights opportunities to license Sandia intellectual property

January 18, 2005 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A new online database created to highlight opportunities to license Sandia National Laboratories’ intellectual property is now available to the general public.

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VCSEL arrays are among the many Sandia technologies available for licensing via the iPAL database. Sandia has become an internationally recognized leader in photonics technology.

Car battery failing? Hazardous material leaching? Oil level dropping?

January 11, 2005 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — There you are, tapping your fingers on the cold steering wheel as your windows cloud over from your breath. How could you have known your car battery was that low?

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Sandia researcher Jonathan Weiss uses light fibers in clever ways to test car batteries, determine landfill leakage, and help oil companies separate oil from water.

GM joins with Sandia to advance hydrogen storage

January 7, 2005 • DETROIT, Mich., and LIVERMORE, Calif. — General Motors Corp. and Sandia National Laboratories have launched a partnership to design and test an advanced method for storing hydrogen based on metal hydrides.

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A critical aspect of hydride storage tank development is the act of recharging and discharging hydrogen. Here, Sandia National Laboratories engineer Mark Zimmerman integrates a hydride bed with temperature monitoring sensors.

High school physics teachers invited to Jan. 8 workshop

January 5, 2005 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A workshop for high school physics teachers will be held Saturday, Jan. 8, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., at the Albuquerque Convention Center in the Ruidoso Room, East Complex Upper level.

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Sandia Labs essay contest ‘It’s the Write Thing To Do’ makes five high school winners $2,000 richer

December 14, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Five Albuquerque high school students have been awarded $2,000 worth of U.S. Savings Bonds as winners of the second annual “It’s the Write Thing To Do” essay contest, sponsored by Sandia National Laboratories and Lockheed Martin Corporation.

Categories: Community / Education

Sandia employees buy shoes for hundreds of school kids

December 14, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — More than 500 local elementary school students are getting new shoes again this year thanks to donations from Sandia National Laboratories employees through the Labs’ annual Shoes for Kids campaign.

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Artist/scientist ‘dream team’ assembles with goal of capturing and displaying gigapixel-sized images

December 9, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — An eclectic group of artists and scientists that organizers have dubbed the “dream team” of imaging and visualization are gathered at New York University this week to begin to create a photographic system capable of capturing and displaying a gigapixel...

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A photographic camera and display system being sought by artists and scientists involved in the Big Picture Summit would have 16 times greater data display capability than this display at Sandia National Laboratories, which scientists use to visualize highly complex supercomputer-generated physics simulations.

Sandia to begin testing innovative arsenic-removal technologies in Socorro

December 7, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Over the next few weeks researchers at the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Sandia National Laboratories will begin testing innovative ways to treat arsenic-contaminated water in an effort to reduce costs to municipalities of meeting the new...

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Sandia, Tenix, and CH2M Hill will develop automated water safety sensor units

December 6, 2004 • LIVERMORE, Calif., ENGLEWOOD, Colo., and SYDNEY, Australia — Sandia National Laboratories, CH2M Hill, and Tenix Investments Pty. Ltd. today announced a multi-year, multi-million dollar partnership to develop an unattended water safety system that offers the unique capability...

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water

Through microfluidics technology such as that featured in Sandia’s µChemLab™ device, SNL and its CRADA partners, Tenix Investments and CH2M Hill, plan to develop an unattended water safety system that offers the unique capability of detecting currently unmonitored biological agents.

Sandia Mentor Protégé Program helps small businesses strengthen supplier capabilities

November 18, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories is looking for businesses to serve as either mentors or protégés in its Mentor Protégé Program (MPP) for next year.

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Collapse analysis of World Trade Center talk featured at Homeland Security Conference

November 15, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The third annual regional Homeland Security Conference will be held Nov. 16-19 at the Albuquerque Uptown Marriott.

Categories: Homeland security

Blinded by the light? Not Daniel Sinars

November 10, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Peering into the center of Sandia National Laboratory’s Z machine as it fires had been a feat unachievable for a decade.

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Sandia National Laboratories researcher Daniel Sinars demonstrates the setup he and his team created to peer into the center of Sandia’s Z machine at the moment of firing. The crystal under his finger is attached to portions of a Z target configuration.

Sandia, Stirling to build solar dish engine power plant

November 9, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The National Nuclear Security Administration’s Sandia National Laboratories is joining forces with Stirling Energy Systems, Inc. (SES) of Phoenix to build and test six new solar dish-engine systems for electricity generation that will provide enough grid-...

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water

SANDIA RESEARCHER Chuck Andraka makes adjustments to a Stirling Energy Systems, Inc. solar dish-engine system installed at Sandia's National Solar Test Facility earlier this year. Five more will be erected by January as test units.

Search and rescue group uses Sandia synthetic aperture radar

November 4, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A radar, originally developed by the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Sandia National Laboratories for military surveillance and reconnaissance applications, is helping a volunteer search and rescue group save lives.

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SAR FOR SAR — Sandia researcher Bill Scherzinger, president of the Albuquerque Mountain Rescue Council, looks at a SAR map and a standard topographic map used in search and rescue missions.

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