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Drilling at California geothermal well may provide clues about volcanic hazards and electricity producing potential

September 1, 1998 • MAMMOTH LAKES, CALIF. -- Resumed drilling at the Long Valley Exploratory Well near Mammoth Lakes, Calif., may provide new clues about local volcanic hazards and the role of underground magma in the energy future of California. The drilling operations are being led by a team...

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Sandia-developed tests ensure satellite electronics endure long-term radiation exposure

August 21, 1998 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Fewer failures in satellites used for everything from communications to surveillance may be the result of bipolar electronics reliability tests developed by Sandia National Laboratories, a Department of Energy (DOE) national security research lab, and a...

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National study conducted by University of New Mexico shows public believes U.S. faces nuclear threats

August 3, 1998 • ALBUQUERQUE, NM -- The Cold War has been over for more than seven years, but most Americans continue to believe the U.S. remains at risk of nuclear conflict, and they support maintenance of a stockpile of nuclear weapons to ensure the safety of the country.

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Inexpensive Sandia substrate keeps today’s hot chips cooler

July 16, 1998 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- In a few years a dime-size microchip may be home to as many as 10 million transistors. But the electrical resistance created as all those snug circuits zap electrons back and forth are causing even today's tightly packaged microprocessors to get...

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Sandia, UNM scientists mimic structure of seashells to make strong, tough coatings

July 16, 1998 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Humanity has valued seashells for their beauty as ornaments and utility as tools for thousands of years. But even alchemists never tried transmuting base materials into the very fine interlayering necessary to create a shell's strength, hardness, and...

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Pollen-grain-sized parts soon in watches, TVs, computers

July 7, 1998 • ALBUQUERQUE, NM -- Within the next few years, your watch, television, and computer may all contain microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), micron-size machines being developed at Sandia National Laboratories, a Department of Energy national security lab.

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Sandia signs agreement with Numotech to help create home-use healing facility

June 16, 1998 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- In the presence of wheelchair-bound Bill "Willie" Shoemaker -- America's winningest jockey until he suffered a severe spinal injury in an auto accident in 1991 -- representatives of the Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories signed a $5.76...

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Sandia’s reliability tests advance future of micromachine systems

June 10, 1998 • ALBUQUERQUE, NM -- Work being done at the Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories to determine the reliability of Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) may mean that one day soon most electronics devices will contain the micron-size machines.

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Special Sandia Memory Chip Wins 1998 Discover Award

June 9, 1998 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- The editors of Discover magazine have announced that Sandia National Laboratories' memory-retentive computer chip has received one of the magazine's ten 1998 Discover Awards.

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Sandian’s Web-based computational science textbook used in 100 schools

June 9, 1998 • ALBUQUERQUE, NM -- Imagine a school in the 21st century where students carry no books and study from a virtual textbook.

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Tracking hepatitis C: Health info sharing project demos worldwide early-warning system for disease outbreaks

June 4, 1998 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- As part of a Sandia National Laboratories-led effort to create a worldwide disease tracking network, hospital emergency rooms in three New Mexico cities and in a formerly secret Russian city this week began gathering and posting on the Internet information...

Categories: Bioscience / Medical Research

Sandian’s Rapid Road Repair Vehicle would fix potholes on the fly

June 3, 1998 • LIVERMORE, Calif. -- Leo Mara usually commutes on foot the two miles from his home to work at Sandia National Laboratories. But one day, as he inched along a bumpy road in his van past a repair crew, he dreamed of a bus-sized vehicle that would fix potholes as it...

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Refrozen food detector patented by Sandia

May 21, 1998 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- If frozen food thawed on the cross-country truck transporting it, was then refrozen and you bought it, how would you know the food wasn't fit to eat?

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Sandia lends its ‘accidents are unacceptable’ expertise to FAA’s new airliner inspection program

May 14, 1998 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Sandia National Laboratories' role in helping the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) design a systematic new approach to aircraft safety was highlighted during a May 13 Washington, D.C., news conference. The FAA expects the new program to help its team...

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‘New Mexico Technology Corridor’ conference touts Sandia Science and Technology Park to industry

May 14, 1998 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Albuquerque's growing reputation as a high-tech magnet gains another level May 28-29 with a conference introducing the captains of high-tech America to the proposed Sandia Science and Technology Park.

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Albuquerque, Russian school children shed Cold War mentality in electronic-age pen-pal program

May 11, 1998 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Their parents spent their school-age years learning to mistrust Russians. But for the 19 second graders in Janet Sanchez's Petroglyph Elementary classroom, Russians aren't reason to "duck and cover." They're pen pals, friends, summer camp companions, perhaps.

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Two Sandia technologies place among the world’s top innovations in 1998 Discover Awards competition

May 7, 1998 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- The editors of Discover magazine have announced that two Sandia National Laboratories technologies are among 45 finalists now in the running for 1998 Discover Awards, issued each year by the magazine for the top inventions and engineering achievements of...

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Real (not reel) deep impacts: Sandia scientists predict what an asteroid strike would look like, really

May 5, 1998 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Steven Spielberg's new blockbuster movie -- with its computer-animated interpretation of a comet striking Earth -- promises to be a big hit at the box office this summer. But computer scientists at Sandia National Laboratories are creating some big hits of...

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‘Human presence detector’ fails controlled tests conducted by Sandia National Laboratories

May 1, 1998 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- A recent Sandia National Laboratories' double-blind test of an instrument that its manufacturer said could detect the presence of human beings at a distance through any material found no evidence that it could do so.

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Hot research at Sandia may make producing electricity from geothermal energy more cost competitive

April 29, 1998 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Research under way in Sandia National Laboratories' Geothermal Research Department may improve the economic feasibility of using geothermal energy -- water heated deep inside the earth's crust -- to produce electricity.

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Sandia’s lab on a chip to spot chemical clues

April 23, 1998 • LIVERMORE, Calif. -- Extending our senses beyond their current limits, bits of hardware may one day discern the faint but informative presence of trace chemicals while mounted on bands of small vehicles that cooperatively canvass the countryside.

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Sandia expands partnering agreements with Pacific Scientific’s Energy Dynamics Division

April 17, 1998 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Sandia National Laboratories has expanded its partnership with Pacific Scientific Company to manufacture, test, and supply vital components for national defense weapons systems. Sandia and Pacific Scientific officials celebrated the expanded partnership at...

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Sandia Engineers Among Top 20 Hispanics in Technology

April 10, 1998 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- The Hispanic Engineer and Information Technology Magazine has recognized Sandia National Laboratories engineers Dr. Dan Arvizu, Director of Materials and Process Science Center, and Dr. Nestor Ortiz, Director of Nuclear Energy Technology Center, and former...

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Wear-resistant diamond coating created by Sandia scientists

April 8, 1998 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Eliminate stress, the saying goes, and you live longer. Apparently the same is true of certain diamond coatings.

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Sandia formally proposes to design accelerator expected to produce high-yield fusion

April 8, 1998 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Permission to prepare a conceptual design for an accelerator, X-1, has been formally requested by Sandia National Laboratories President Paul Robinson in a letter to the Department of Energy (DOE).

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