Science / Technology / Engineering

July 5, 2007 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories and their collaborators have received five R&D 100 Awards, which are presented by R&D Magazine in recognition of the 100 most technologically significant products introduced into the marketplace over the past year.

July 2, 2007 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. —The ingenious system called adaptive optics, known for its computer control of subdivided, individually angled mirrors, is an efficient but expensive way to correct distortions in laser beams. The mirrors automatically adjust until an undistorted beam is...

June 26, 2007 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Secretary of Energy Samuel Bodman has announced today a partnership of three national laboratories — including Sandia National Laboratories — and three research universities in the San Francisco Bay Area has been chosen to host one of three bioenergy...

June 21, 2007 • A Sandia research team was the nation’s only winner of the 2007 Federal Laboratory Consortium’s (FLC) Interagency Partnership Award for Excellence in transferring federal technology to the commercial marketplace.

June 18, 2007 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Like Johnny Appleseed of yore, the Food and Drug Administration is scattering food-defense programs across the US so that the country’s million or so food processors can better secure their food against possible contamination by terrorists.

June 13, 2007 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories is pioneering the future of superalloy materials by advancing the science behind how those superalloys are made.

June 12, 2007 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Buried beneath a sulfurous cauldron in European seas lies a class of microorganisms known as “extremophiles,” so named because of the extreme environmental conditions in which they live and thrive. Almost as radical, perhaps, is the idea that these...

May 30, 2007 • LIVERMORE, CALIF. — Sandia National Laboratories and Boeing are collaborating on a project looking at the feasibility of using a hydrogen-powered fuel cell for providing backup power in aircraft.

May 29, 2007 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Findings of a research team from Sandia National Laboratories were a key source of a recently released report by the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) indicating that lightning was the likely cause of the explosion in the Sago Mine on Jan. 2...

May 14, 2007 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Two winners of the third annual University Alliance competition for student microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) designs have been announced by Sandia National Laboratories, which originated and supports the competition.

May 10, 2007 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. —Sandia National Laboratories is backing the Intel International Science & Engineering Fair (ISEF) 2007 in Albuquerque next week in a number of ways.

May 9, 2007 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — In late 2004, Sandia National Laboratories announced a multiyear research agreement with Tenix Investments Pty. Ltd., a partnership that offered the vision of a safer future for the nation’s water supplies.

May 7, 2007 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — For the past six years, Sandia National Laboratories and Lockheed Martin have recognized outstanding science teachers through the ESTe Awards (Excellence in Science Teaching).

May 2, 2007 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Swarmy the robot recently completed its cleanup assignment — removing the last drum-full of thick sludge from the bottom of a deeply buried storage tank at Sandia National Laboratories.

May 2, 2007 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Swarmy the robot recently completed its cleanup assignment — removing the last drum-full of thick sludge from the bottom of a deeply buried storage tank at Sandia National Laboratories.

April 30, 2007 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. —A Sandia National Laboratories research team is developing a new type of electrochemical sensor that uses a unique surface chemistry to reliably and accurately detects thousands of differing biomolecules on a single platform.

April 26, 2007 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A product based on a technology originally developed at Sandia National Laboratories is now available on the shelves of hardware stores across the country.

April 24, 2007 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — An electrical circuit that should carry enough power to produce the long-sought goal of controlled high-yield nuclear fusion and, equally important, do it every 10 seconds, has undergone extensive preliminary experiments and computer simulations at Sandia...

April 16, 2007 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories will host the inaugural High School Homeland Security Conference April 20-22 at the AmeriSuites Hotel in Albuquerque.

April 12, 2007 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia scientists Sandra Begay-Campbell and Cheryl Ghanbari will be profiled as part of KNME’s DragonFly TV: GPS “Going Places in Science.” The New Mexico episode was filmed at both museums and at Sandia National Laboratories, and features local kids and...

April 5, 2007 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A Sandia physicist remembers all too vividly how difficult the transition from postdoc to technical staff at Sandia can be.

April 3, 2007 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A Sandia National Laboratories research team led by Anup Singh is taking a new approach to studying how immune cells respond to pathogens in the first few minutes and hours of exposure.

March 29, 2007 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Who would have guessed that when the Star Trek medical diagnostic tool known as the tricorder makes its appearance in real life, the first user might be . . . your dentist.

March 15, 2007 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia’s huge Z machine, which generates temperatures hotter than the sun, has turned water to ice in nanoseconds.

March 14, 2007 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — The city of Dublin, Calif., has experienced a dangerous release of chlorine. A plume is headed east — toward Livermore (site of two national security laboratories), but is also threatening other parts of the Tri-Valley region. Was this the work of a...