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Sandia/California to celebrate achievements, evolving national security mission during 60th anniversary event
December 9, 2009 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Sandia National Laboratories’ California site will celebrate 60 years of laboratory achievements at a Dec. 17 commemorative event at Sandia’s Livermore campus. News media are invited to attend the event, which kicks off at 10 a.m. Sandia President and Laboratories Director Tom Hunter will be among the...
Categories: Community / Education, Science / Technology / Engineering

Why huge bands of iron formed billions of years ago on Earth’s surface
November 19, 2009 • Ironing out a longstanding geological puzzle ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — No one knows why massive formations of banded iron — some ultimately hundreds of kilometers long, like a sleeping giant’s suspenders — mysteriously began precipitating on Earth’s surface about 3.5 billion years ago. Or why, almost 2 billion years later, the...
Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Science / Technology / Engineering
Yifeng Wang holds a piece of banded iron during a visit to an aquarium. Wang and colleagues have proposed an explanation -- published recently in Nature Geoscience -- for the precipitation of banded iron deposits in the planets oceans billions of years ago.

Sandia announces completion of mixed waste landfill cover construction
November 2, 2009 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – The Environmental Restoration Project at Sandia National Laboratories reports the successful construction of an alternative evapotranspirative cover at the Mixed Waste Landfill (MWL) in September. The 2.6-acre site is located in Technical Area 3 in the west-central part of Kirtland Air Force Base. The protective cover consists...
Categories: Awards, Energy / Environment / Water, Science / Technology / Engineering
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Sandia, others funded to sequence microbial genes for potential biofuels use
October 28, 2009 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia researchers and others at the University of New Mexico (UNM), the Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI), Novozymes and North Carolina State University’s Center for Integrated Fungal Research (NCSU-CIFR) have received a DNA sequencing award from the Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (JGI) to study microbial genes...
Categories: Awards, Renewable energy, Science / Technology / Engineering
The 454 genome sequencing instruments (shown here at the Joint Genome Institutes Walnut Creek, Calif. headquarters) are among the platforms to be utilized in the grasslands project. Photo credit: Roy Kaltschmidt, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Magnetic mixing creates quite a stir
October 27, 2009 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandia researchers have developed a process that can mix tiny volumes of liquid, even in complicated spaces. Researchers currently use all types of processes to try and create mixing, with only “mixed” success. “In small devices,” says Sandia materials scientist Jim Martin “people have tried all kinds...
Categories: Nanotechnology, Science / Technology / Engineering
KYLE SOLIS (in photo at left), a graduate student intern in Nanomaterials Sciences Dept. 1112, prepares a sample for mixing using a new approach called vortex field mixing, developed by researchers in his organization. (Photo by Randy Montoya)

Sandia, SRC win LES award for NINE program outreach
October 21, 2009 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories’ National Institute for Nano-Engineering (NINE) program, operated  in conjunction with the Semiconductor Research Corp., has won a “Deal of Distinction” award from the Licensing Executives Society (U.S. and Canada), Inc. The award — a glass sculpture — will be presented today in San Francisco....
Categories: Awards, Operations / Budget, Science / Technology / Engineering

Sandia hopping robots to bolster troop capabilities
September 11, 2009 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Boston Dynamics, developer of advanced dynamic robots such as BigDog and PETMAN, has been awarded a contract by Sandia to develop the next generation of the Precision Urban Hopper, meaning Sandia‘s hopping robots may soon be in combat. When fully operational, the four-wheeled hopper robots will navigate...
Categories: Awards, Military / Defense, Science / Technology / Engineering
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Jon Salton, left, and Steve Buerger put the Precision Urban Hopper through its paces. (Photo by Randy Montoya) Download 300dpi 4.27MB JPEG image (Media are welcome to download/publish this image with related news stories.)

Sandia computer scientists successfully boot one million Linux kernels as virtual machines
July 28, 2009 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Computer scientists at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, Calif., have for the first time successfully demonstrated the ability to run more than a million Linux kernels as virtual machines. The achievement will allow cyber security researchers to more effectively observe behavior found in malicious botnets, or networks...
Categories: Computing, Science / Technology / Engineering
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Purer water made possible by Sandia advance
July 21, 2009 • A single atom makes a big difference ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — By substituting a single atom in a molecule widely used to purify water, researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have created a far more effective decontaminant with a shelf life superior to products currently on the market. Sandia has applied for...
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Sandia wins five R&D 100 awards
July 20, 2009 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories researchers — competing in an international pool that includes universities, start-ups, large corporations, and government labs — received five R&D 100 Awards this year, and played a role in a sixth. R&D Magazine presents the awards each year to researchers who have developed the...
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Salt block unexpectedly stretches in Sandia experiments
June 22, 2009 • Nanoscopic discovery may have implications for smog, asthma, cloud formation ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — To stretch a supply of salt generally means using it sparingly. But researchers from Sandia National Laboratories and the University of Pittsburgh were startled when they found they had made the solid actually physically stretch. “It’s not...
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“Microswimmer” and extremely tiny testing tool are big winners at Sandia student MEMS contest
June 9, 2009 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. —A “microswimmer” about the diameter of a human hair won the “novel design” category of the fifth annual Sandia National Laboratories-sponsored MEMS University Alliance Design Competition. The microswimmer, which resembles a tiny fish, is designed to have an aluminum tail that whips back and forth from being heated...
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Sandia signs MOU with Japanese national institute
May 26, 2009 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories and Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology have signed an agreement to conduct and share research of mutual interest. Areas of immediate importance named in the memorandum of understanding include photovoltaics, nanoelectronics, nanomaterials and computational investigations of the properties of materials....
Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Sandia successfully completes hydrogen storage system for GM
May 7, 2009 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have successfully designed and demonstrated key features of a hydrogen storage system that utilizes a complex metal hydride material known as sodium alanate. The system, developed through a multiyear project funded by General Motors Corp., stores 3 kilograms of hydrogen and is...
Categories: Renewable energy, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact
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Sandia researchers construct carbon nanotube device that can detect colors of the rainbow
April 30, 2009 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have created the first carbon nanotube device that can detect the entire visible spectrum of light, a feat that could soon allow scientists to probe single molecule transformations, study how those molecules respond to light, observe how the molecules change shapes, and...
Categories: Nanotechnology, Science / Technology / Engineering
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Sandia receives DoD “trusted design” accreditation
March 14, 2009 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories has received accreditation to provide “trusted design” services for both unclassified and classified integrated circuits at its Albuquerque, N.M., facility. Sandia’s Category 1A status was awarded through the Trusted IC Supplier Accreditation Program (www.dmea.osd.mil/trustedic.html) of the Department of Defense (DoD)’s Defense MicroElectronics Activity (DMEA)...
Categories: Awards, Military / Defense, Operations / Budget, Science / Technology / Engineering

Huge pressures that melt diamonds on planet Neptune determined by Sandia researchers – February 17, 2009
February 17, 2009 • Technique may provide data for NIF nuclear fusion effort ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The enormous pressures needed to melt diamond to slush and then to a completely liquid state have been determined ten times more accurately by Sandia National Laboratories researchers than ever before. As a bonus to science, researchers Marcus...
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Sandia’s diamond-like films on board NASA satellite
February 16, 2009 • IBEX looks at materials coming into solar system Tom Friedmann checks out a sample diamond-like carbon film he created for the low-energy sensor (IBEX-Lo) on board NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX). (Photo by Randy Montoya) Media are welcome to download/publish this image with related news stories. Click the image to...
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