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Metal Detecting Molecules May Find Use in Process Water Recycling, Groundwater Cleanup, Virus Detection, and More

May 29, 1997 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- A biochemical technique being refined at Sandia National Laboratories may soon enable sensors that can in seconds detect the equivalent of one contaminant particle among a billion other molecules in waste streams.

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Joint U.S.-Russian Epidemiology Project to Seek Risk Factors for Hepatitis C

May 28, 1997 • Albuquerque, N.M. -- Sandia National Laboratories has organized a novel project to monitor a newly recognized, emerging disease known as Hepatitis C in cooperation with the Russian Nuclear Center at Chelyabinsk-70, the New Mexico Department of Health, the University of New Mexico

Categories: Bioscience / Medical Research

Sandian Receives World’s Most Prestigious Robotics Honor

May 15, 1997 • Albuquerque, N.M. -- Pat Eicker, Director of Intelligent Systems and Robotics at Sandia National Laboratories, has been named the 1997 recipient of the Joseph F. Engelberger Robotics Award for leadership.

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Never-Tiring Robots Help Dismantle Nuclear Weapons Faster, More Safely

May 9, 1997 • After the euphoric ring of sledgehammer blows on the Berlin Wall echoed away in 1989 and diplomats from the West and the collapsing Soviet Union signed agreements trimming nuclear arsenals, physicists and engineers east and west were left with the daunting task of shifting pro...

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Discover Magazine Names Sandian, Solar Two 1997 Finalists for Technological Innovation

May 8, 1997 • A radiation detector the size of a wristwatch with a new kind of crystal and a camera that images and identifies radiation sources, operating at a fraction of its former size, is a finalist in Discover magazine's 1997 Awards for Technological Innovation.

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

New Aircraft Repair Technique Receives FAA Certification, Delta L-1011 Returned to Trans-Atlantic Service

May 1, 1997 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) last week gave an improved type of aircraft fuselage 'patch' a thumbs up and returned a Delta Airlines L-1011 to commercial service.

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Comet Crash: Teraflops Computer Simulates Colossal Comet Impact Into Ocean

April 30, 1997 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Even before it's at full strength, the new teraflops (trillion operations per second) supercomputer at Sandia National Laboratories is making a big splash worldwide.

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Sandia Helps Former Soviet Union Protect Nuclear Material and Facilities

April 24, 1997 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- In 1994, a band of criminals threatened to blow up a nuclear power plant if their friends weren't released immediately from a Lithuanian jail.

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Retiree Lessens Cost for U.S. to Visualize World Peace

April 23, 1997 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Most retirees are happy to fold their tents and depart, but Ken Deller left the American taxpayer the equivalent of approximately $100,000 when he went. The gift will make it slightly less expensive for the United States to visualize world peace.

Categories: History

Protonic Computer Memory Remembers Information When Power Goes Off

April 10, 1997 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- One of the minor horrors of the computer age is to be working on a document not yet saved to the hard drive "memory" and lose everything because of a power outage or a screen freeze-up that forces the operator to shut down the computer.

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Sandia Automotive Technology Team Making Strides on Improved Lean-Burn Engines; Receives Special Recognition from Vice President Gore

March 31, 1997 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Four automotive researchers from Sandia National Laboratories have received special recognition from Vice President Al Gore for their work in connection with a multi-player initiative aimed at developing a new generation of fuel-efficient, low-emission veh...

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Sandia Models Procurement Practices After Industry

March 18, 1997 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M -- In an effort to cut waste and improve efficiency, Sandia National Laboratories has taken the best industry has to offer to design new purchasing guidelines.

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Sandia Earns A+ On School Security Program Achievements

March 17, 1997 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- A pilot school security program between Sandia National Laboratories and Belen High School (N.M.) is being credited for an impressive decline in the number of incidents that typically distress school administrators and students alike -- violence, theft, and d

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Hostage Rescues Honed in Virtual Reality Simulation

March 14, 1997 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Modern movie superheroes rescue hostages by evading hailstorms of bullets and harming only evil-doers who resist.

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Goodyear, Sandia Combine Capabilities in Innovative Research Projects

February 10, 1997 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Three cooperative research and development agreements between Sandia and the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company are leading to better tires for Goodyear and improved methods for Sandia's national security work. Goodyear regards the cooperative work so highly that

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Sandia Science Wins E.O. Lawrence Award

February 7, 1997 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Sandia scientist Dr. Charles "Jack" Jakowatz has been selected to receive a 1996 Ernest O. Lawrence Award, one of the Department of Energy's top prizes, for achievements that advance the use of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) to detect exceptionally small chan

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Sandia Putting Expertise in Advanced Software Applications into Teraflops Supercomputer

December 16, 1996 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Achievement of the one-trillion math-operations per second computing milestone ushers in a new era in which high-fidelity 3-D simulation will enable scientists to reach the eventual goal of preserving a safe, secure and reliable nuclear deterrent without...

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Sandia’s FY96 Payroll, Pension Payments, Purchases, Taxes Put More than $800 Million into New Mexico Economy

December 3, 1996 • Albuquerque, N.M. -- Sandia National Laboratories pumped more than $800 million directly into the New Mexico economy in fiscal year 1996 with employee salaries, medical and dental benefits, retiree pensions, commercial purchases, and gross receipts taxes.

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

High-Output Sandia Accelerator Able to Predict Nuclear Blast Physics

December 2, 1996 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- For periods of ten-billionths of a second this fall, a massive accelerator at Sandia National Laboratories consistently emitted intense bursts of more than 40 trillion watts of X-ray power. The highest power pulse was more than 160 trillion watts -- more...

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Russia’s Mars ’96 Mission Taps into Sandia Chemical Sensor Technology

November 14, 1996 • ALBUQUERQUE, N. M. -- As the Russian Mars '96 mission, scheduled for launch this month from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazahkstan, hurtles toward the Red Planet, it will be carrying a key science instrument based on chemical sensor technology developed at Sandia National...

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Nation’s Robotics Experts See Stronger Markets, New Applications For Robots and Intelligent Machines Through Greater Cooperation

November 12, 1996 • ALBUQUERQUE, NM -- Robotics and intelligent machines already touch the lives of most Americans. And yet that impact is negligible compared to the role those technologies can and will play in America's future, in areas diverse as surgery, entertainment, and packaging the foods...

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National Atomic Museum Exhibit Honors WWII Navajo ‘Code Talkers’

October 31, 1996 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- U.S. military radio transmissions intercepted by Japanese intelligence during World War II were spoken in such an unusual lexicon that Japan regarded the Americans' "secret code" unbreakable. The code, based on the Navajo language, was used by a select...

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New Facility Geared to Take Robotics Research and Development to Next Level of Technological and Industrial Achievement

October 21, 1996 • Note to Editors: The Oct. 28 dedication will include a media tour at 1:30 p.m., news conference at 2:15 p.m., and the dedication ceremony will begin at 3 p.m. Those scheduled to attend the event and available for interviews include Department of Energy Deputy Secretary Charles...

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Sandia Patents Heating Device for Ultra-low Emissions

October 16, 1996 • LIVERMORE, Calif. -- An environmentally friendly way to operate heaters for home and industrial uses has received a patent at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, Calif.

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water

Science Landscape May Aid US Intelligence Services, Funding Agencies, Researchers, and Eventually Libraries

October 10, 1996 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Imagine the large-scale structure of science displayed as a landscape. That big mountain range with colorful peaks, ridges, and valleys is physics. Chemistry is a range off in the distance, and in another direction is, say, biology. Trails linking ranges...

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

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