Science / Technology / Engineering

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...

March 8, 2007 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — As society, technology and jobs change at an ever-increasing pace, high school graduates must be prepared for relationships and community, for lifelong education and training, and for the reality of the workplace. The transition from school to world can...

February 21, 2007 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. —It’s a local twist to a nationwide problem: Potential unexploded ordnance (UXO) at old bombing ranges.

February 20, 2007 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Adults wonder how to get kids interested in science. One way, Tim Boyle, Sandia National Laboratories materials scientist, has found is to collect them in a room and accuse them of stealing his dog. In the silence — having garnered their immediate, undivided..

February 16, 2007 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — If a so-called “dirty bomb ” exploded in a populated area, first responders would make immediate decisions to lessen health impacts on people potentially exposed to radioactive material.

February 15, 2007 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The Cold War may be over but nuclear weapon programs continue.

February 15, 2007 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Gold is shiny, diamonds are transparent, and iron is magnetic. Why is that?

February 7, 2007 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A new wind turbine blade design that researchers at Sandia National Laboratories developed in partnership with Knight & Carver (K&C) of San Diego promises to be more efficient than current designs. It should significantly reduce the cost-of-energy (COE) of...

January 22, 2007 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. —It might not be science fiction much longer.

January 17, 2007 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A Sandia National Laboratories researcher has developed a simulation program designed to track the illicit trade in fissile and nonfissile radiological material well enough to predict who is building the next nuclear weapon and where they are doing it.

January 17, 2007 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — The initial version of “OVIS” — a software tool developed by Sandia National Laboratories that provides intelligent, real-time monitoring of computational computer clusters — is now available for free download at http://ovis.ca.sandia.gov.

January 9, 2007 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The Miniaturized Synthetic Aperture Radar (MiniSAR) developed by Sandia National Laboratories flew for the first time on a Lockheed Martin unmanned aerial system (UAS) recently, taking images in flight.

January 8, 2007 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Discover magazine has recognized work done by Sandia National Laboratories physicist Mark Boslough as one of the “Top 100 Science Stories of 2006.”

December 4, 2006 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — By integrating readily available generic sensors with a more sophisticated sensor, researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have developed a detection system that promises to make it easier to catch perpetrators trying to infiltrate prohibited areas.

November 2, 2006 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia’s Z machine, by creating pressures more than 10 million times that of the atmosphere at sea level, has turned a diamond sheet into a pool of liquid.