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April 11, 1996 • They don't make cookies -- the round silicon wafers used for microcircuits -- there anymore, but Sandia National Laboratories' "cookie factory," is back in the production business. The 91,000-square-foot Neutron Generator Facility, which emerged out of the remains of the cookie..

April 9, 1996 • ALBUQUERQUE, NM -- With exclusive license to relevant patents, two researchers from Sandia National Laboratories are commercializing an energy beam that has demonstrated an extraordinary number of practical applications.

March 15, 1996 • In the past two years, a succession of increasingly powerful micromachines have been developed by a team of Sandia researchers. Now they've made smart ones.

March 7, 1996 • A cooperative research and development agreement (CRADA) to develop improved tech-nologies for manufacturing advanced ceramic components was signed last month in Albuquerque, N.M.

March 6, 1996 • Computer scientists at Sandia National Laboratories, working with the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science and The State Museum of Pennsylvania, are applying computer models developed for the Department of Energy to help unravel some of the mystery surrounding...

March 1, 1996 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - A prototype economic model developed on one of the world's fastest supercomputers is including data about human beings to an extent never achieved before.

February 27, 1996 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- A computer control system developed in a cooperative project between Sandia National Laboratories and Delphi Saginaw Steering Systems is saving the automobile parts maker time and money by improving a 50-year-old process that hardens steel parts.

February 16, 1996 • Albuquerque, N.M. -- A small probe that can be inserted into a wellbore to measure downhole temperatures could save the American oil industry millions of dollars by allowing more effective treatment for paraffin accumulations in oil wells.

January 28, 1996 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) announced this week that it has named Sandia National Laboratories a Satellite Facility to support the Institute's multi-disciplinary science and technology development program. NIJ is the research and development branc

January 19, 1996 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- For years, both the Army and the Marines have been seeking to develop battlefield robots that could reduce risk to soldiers by performing some of their more dangerous duties. SARGE, the latest in a long line of prototype battlefield robots, is designed...

January 15, 1996 • Seventy-four current and former Sandia National Laboratories employees have been recognized for inventingproducts or writing computer software that are now helping industry. The technology was transferred to U.S. industry throughSandia's intellectual property licensing...

January 15, 1996 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- A battery-powered pneumatic seat cushion designed to prevent pressure ulcers from occurring in persons confined to wheelchairs has been developed as a result of a cooperative program involving Sandia National Laboratories, the University of New Mexico, and...

January 13, 1996 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- The first international conference on computational molecular biology will be held at the Eldorado Hotel in Santa Fe, N.M., from January 20-23, 1997.

January 10, 1996 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Low-residue soldering processes with results confirmed by a government-industry task force managed by Sandia National Laboratories are saving the electronics industry time and money while reducing pollution.

January 9, 1996 • LIVERMORE, Calif. -- Sandia scientist Ken Wilson has received a Department of Energy Distinguished Associate award for his pioneering work in fusion research.

January 1, 1996 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Marble statues, the nation's bridges and tunnels, and the building called the Pentagon share a common problem: limestone ingredients make them vulnerable to pitting from acid rain and spalling from freeze-thaw cycles that may follow.