Science / Technology / Engineering

August 21, 2007 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. —Cars already automatically lock doors when they sense motion and turn on warning lights if they detect potential engine problems.

August 20, 2007 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. —On Thursday, Aug. 23, top officials from the Department of Energy, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), Sandia National Laboratories, and the U.S. Senate will celebrate the final addition to a complex at Sandia that will produce electronic...

August 20, 2007 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. —Dozens of aircraft inspectors from the U.S. Coast Guard are in Albuquerque this week for a unique weeklong training course hosted by Sandia National Laboratories. Inspectors from the U.S. Air Force and commercial aircraft operators are attending the training...

August 15, 2007 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. —Sandia National Laboratories has entered into a relationship with universities and industries around the country to establish the National Institute for Nano-Engineering (NINE).

August 14, 2007 • LIVERMORE, CALIF —The Department of Energy’s domestic FreedomCAR and Fuels presidential initiative has now gone global, and researchers at Sandia National Laboratories are playing a key role in that worldwide effort.

August 9, 2007 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. —Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, N.M. and Livermore, Calif., are part of a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) -funded team led by UOP, LLC, a Honeywell company, looking at the production of military Jet Propellant 8...

August 8, 2007 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. —Imagine a world where a machine creates a “virtual you” by modeling how you think and your expertise on a subject. Or one where your car’s computer appreciates your driving skills and compensates for your limitations.

August 6, 2007 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. Networks of small, permanently mounted sensors could soon check continuously for the formation of structural defects in I-beams and other critical structural supports of bridges and highway overpasses, giving structural engineers a better chance of heading...

July 18, 2007 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. —Networks of sensors mounted on commercial aircraft might one day check continuously for the formation of structural defects, possibly reducing or eliminating scheduled aircraft inspections.

July 17, 2007 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. Regina Hunter, retired Sandia National Laboratories employee, is launching a new software product, Safe at Home™, based on Sandia-developed RAMPART™. Safe at Home allows homeowners to assess risks arising from accidents, fire, crime inside or outside the house

July 16, 2007 • AMARILLO, TEXAS — Sandia National Laboratories Weapons Evaluation Test Laboratory (WETL) at the Pantex Plant near Amarillo, Texas, has received the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED®) building certification. The award is given by the U.S. Green Building...

July 9, 2007 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. —Naturally occurring structures like birds’ bones or tree trunks are thought to have evolved over eons to reach the best possible balance between stiffness and density.

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.