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November 30, 1999 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- You might call it an "electronic dog."

November 19, 1999 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Though courted by the finest universities in the United States, a noted Sandia National Laboratories materials scientist has decided to remain at the Labs and accept a second position as tenured professor in the University of New Mexico's (UNM) ...

November 19, 1999 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Among the 500 listings of the world's fastest supercomputers is a peculiar entry at 44th post.

November 11, 1999 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.-- Micromirrors being developed by the Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories may one day be part of the Next Generation Space Telescope (NGST), the successor to the Hubble that will peruse the universe looking for remnants from the period in...

November 5, 1999 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- In an inconspicuous, flat-roofed building on the high desert of New Mexico, a machine that creates temperatures rivaling those of the sun is helping physicists examine up-close what happens to iron in the grip of black holes and neutron stars.

October 28, 1999 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- An increasingly popular school security handbook authored by a Sandia National Laboratories scientist is now available on the World Wide Web. It can be found at http://www.ncjrs.org/school/home.html.

October 18, 1999 • ALBUQUERQUE, NM -- More than two hundred construction industry leaders, emergency management experts, government officials, and scientists will gather in Washington, D.C., later this month to explore how technology can make our homes, shopping malls, offices, public buildings...

October 15, 1999 • ALBUQUERQUE, NM -- A portable chemical sensor system the size of a soccer ball being developed by scientists at the Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories, promises a new way of detecting and identifying even the smallest traces of explosives under water - whether...

September 23, 1999 • ALBUQUERQUE, NM -- In the emergencies of tomorrow -- when rescue personnel may need to triage and treat mass casualties following release of a nerve agent in a shopping mall, theme park, or subway, for instance -- there will be no second chances. Rescuers who become victims...

September 21, 1999 • Albuquerque, N.M. -- The largest construction project ever proposed by the Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories -- the $300 million Microsystems and Engineering Sciences Application (MESA) facility -- has received DOE approval for the Laboratories to proceed...

September 16, 1999 • ALBUQUERQUE, NM -- A new advanced five-level polysilicon surface micromachining process pioneered at the Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories promises that microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) of the future will be more reliable and capable of doing increasingly..

September 13, 1999 • LIVERMORE, CA -- Imagine machines with gears no bigger than a grain of pollen, fabricated thousands at a time for pennies apiece.

September 13, 1999 • ALBUQUERQUE, NM -- A simple theoretical concept to solve the staggeringly difficult problem of maintaining intact electrical transmission lines to produce rapidly repeated thermonuclear explosions for peacetime purposes has been proposed by researchers at the Department...

August 28, 1999 • ALBUQUERQUE, NM -- Lynx, a new fine resolution, real time synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) system, was unveiled here Saturday, Aug. 28 by the Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories and General Atomics of San Diego.

August 23, 1999 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Synthetic goods are generally modeled on scarce but desirable materials -- diamonds, fine wools, even fruit juices.

August 16, 1999 • ALBUQUERQUE, NM -- A new remote sensor the size of a dime being developed by the Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories should allow users to rapidly detect dangerous gases from up to two miles away.

August 9, 1999 • RIVERSIDE, CALIF. -- When the FBI needed to disarm the Unabomber's final bomb while preserving potential evidence, it called on an elite team of bomb-disablement experts from Sandia National Laboratories and the City of Riverside Police Department. This week Sandia...

August 9, 1999 • Albuquerque, N.M. -- The term "quantum dots" has a nice ring to it, like "beanie babies" or a special version of connect-the-dots games that absorb the attention of children.

July 8, 1999 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Sandia National Laboratories has strengthened its commitment to buying goods and services from suppliers in New Mexico, and is using SupplierLink, an online database, to facilitate the procurement process.

July 5, 1999 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- The world's fastest encryption device, developed at the Department of Energy's (DOE) Sandia National Laboratories, should soon be protecting data being transmitted from supercomputers, workstations, telephones and video terminals. It encrypts data at more...

June 17, 1999 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- People worry that their credit card numbers will be intercepted online to finance the purchases of strangers.

June 16, 1999 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Researchers at the Department of Energy's (DOE) Sandia National Laboratories have pushed the Z machine, the world's most powerful X-ray source, to new limits using it to test effects of radiation on materials in experiments designed to mimic the response...