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September 17, 2003 • INTEL DEVELOPER FORUM, SAN JOSE, Calif. — Sandia National Laboratories today announced at the Intel Developer Forum it will demonstrate an Intel-based next-generation, High Performance Computing (HPC) cluster, the first such cluster to utilize PCI Express visualization systems.

September 16, 2003 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Officials of Sandia National Laboratories, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology this week are establishing the Center for Energetic Materials and Energetic Devices (CEMED).

September 9, 2003 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Engineers at Sandia National Laboratories in California have designed a miniature power supply device with potential applications in drug delivery systems, medicine, portable detection and analysis, and a host of electronic devices.

August 18, 2003 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia researchers are developing complex nanomaterials that look strikingly similar to the microstructures of diatoms and seashells. The materials may have potential for a wide range of applications.

August 14, 2003 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — On Tuesday, Aug. 19, US Department of Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham and National Nuclear Security Administrator Linton Brooks will join New Mexico Senators Pete Domenici (R) and Jeff Bingaman (D) and Rep. Heather Wilson (R) along with senior management...

August 13, 2003 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A new type of “smart” machine that could fundamentally change how people interact with computers is on the not-too-distant horizon at the Department of Energy’s Sandia National Laboratories.

August 7, 2003 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Some members of New Mexico’s law enforcement community this week are attending a Sandia National Laboratories training course that will help them protect the state’s infrastructures from terrorist attacks.

July 23, 2003 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories researchers won seven R&D 100 awards this year — the most the Labs has won since it garnered eight, its most ever, in 1997.

July 22, 2003 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A microdevice whose business end looks like the gold-coated spine of a very tiny mouse, with each “vertebrae” line separated from the next by about a third the width of a human hair, has been demonstrated to easily collect and release proteins in aqueous...

July 22, 2003 • MANHATTAN, Kan. — As Mike Whitehair quietly moves through the pen of cattle, something captures his attention. The Abilene, Kan., veterinarian pauses, pulls out a cell phone and punches in a code — not to make a call — but to start through a series of questions on the tiny...

July 14, 2003 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — In a different approach to creating white light several researchers at the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Sandia National Laboratories have developed the first solid-state white light-emitting device using quantum dots. In the future, the use of quantum dots...

July 7, 2003 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — You can‘t get something for nothing, physicists say, but sometimes a radical innovation can come close.

July 2, 2003 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Locked in a “war room” for a day, representatives from Sandia National Laboratories and 24 other officials, mostly from the Alameda County Public Health Department (ACPHD), teamed up recently in a simulated bioterrorism event to evaluate Alameda County’s...

May 15, 2003 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — In an operating room in Carle Hospital in Urbana, Ill., on May 7, as scientists from the University of Illinois (UI) and Sandia National Laboratories watched, surgeon Michael Goldwasser fitted a highly unusual ceramic prosthetic device into the mouth of an...

April 8, 2003 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A new process of growing gallium nitride on an etched sapphire substrate, called cantilever epitaxy, may help light up the world with brighter green, blue, and even white semiconductor light emitting diodes (LEDs) — solid-state lighting. The process was...

April 7, 2003 • PHILADELPHIA, Pa. — Throwing its hat into the ring of machines that offer the possibility of achieving controlled nuclear fusion, Sandia National Laboratories’ Z machine has created a hot dense plasma that produces thermonuclear neutrons, Sandia researchers announced today at...

April 2, 2003 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Building on the success of a program first employed at Washington, D.C.’s Metro subway system, researchers at the Department of Energy’s Sandia National Laboratories in California are working with San Francisco International Airport (SFO) to test...

March 27, 2003 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The United States Forest Service (USFS) this week re-activated the first two large firefighting tankers using an improved aircraft inspection and certification program designed at the Department of Energy’s Sandia National Laboratories.