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Fred Harper to speak at AAAS annual meeting

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.

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Ethics of nuclear weapons

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

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Theory aims to describe fundamental properties of materials

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

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Sandia helps develop new wind turbine blade design

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...

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Sandia develops next generation of screening devices

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

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Sandia computer simulation monitors traffic in contraband nuclear material

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.

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Sandia’s “OVIS” now available as open-source software

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.

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Sandia MiniSAR flies for first time on unmanned aerial system

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.

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Discover magazine recognizes Sandia physicist Mark Boslough

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.”

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Sandia researchers develop better sensor detection system

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.

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Sandia researchers Jonathan Van Houten (left) and Jeremy Giron hold a Labs-designed sophisticated sensor that interacts with smaller off-the-shelf sensors like those seen in the foreground.

Z machine melts diamond to puddle

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.

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Three Sandia researchers receive ‘Better Way’ Award

October 31, 2006 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. —Three Sandia researchers together with fellow team members from Delta Airlines, Drexel University, and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) William J. Hughes Technical Center were awarded the FAA-Air Transport Association of America (ATA) Non-Destructive T

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LOGIIC helps keep oil, gas control systems safe

October 9, 2006 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — For the past 12 months, Sandia National Laboratories has served as the lead national lab in Project LOGIIC (Linking the Oil and Gas Industry to Improve Cyber Security). The project was created to keep U.S. oil and gas control systems safe and secure, and to...

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LOGIIC team members Bryan Richardson and Weston Henry demonstrate the project's monitoring solution hosted at Sandia's Center for Control Systems Security.

DOE selects Sandia as National Laboratory Center for Solid-State Lighting Research and Development

October 5, 2006 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Samuel W. Bodman announced today that Sandia National Laboratories is the new home of the National Laboratory Center for Solid-State Lighting Research and Development. He made the announcement at a news conference...

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From the left, Jerry Simmons, senior manager of Sandia’s Energy Sciences Department, briefs U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman, Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N.M., Rep. Heather Wilson, R-N.M., Los Alamos National Laboratory Director Michael Anastasio, Sandia President and Laboratories Director Tom Hunter, and Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M, at the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies. Shortly after, Bodman announced that Sandia is the new home of the National Laboratory Center for Solid-State Lighting Research and Development.

Sandia releases free to the public Acro 1.0 optimization software

October 4, 2006 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Acro 1.0 optimization software, developed by a Sandia National Laboratories team led by Bill Hart, has recently been released to the public and is available at no charge.

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Buying, selling energy being conducted in safer environment due to Sandia standards assessments

October 4, 2006 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Companies buying and selling natural gas and electricity are conducting business in a safer environment thanks to three information standards assessments done by Sandia National Laboratories since 2000.

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Phase diagram of water revised by Sandia researchers

October 3, 2006 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Supercomputer simulations by two Sandia researchers have significantly altered the theoretical diagram universally used by scientists to understand the characteristics of water at extreme temperatures and pressures.

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The electrically conducting structure of metallic water occurs at a more accessible part of the water phase diagram than formerly thought. Here, a snapshot from a first-principles computer simulation demonstrates the atomic disorder. Red spheres are hydrogen atoms, white spheres are oxygen atoms, and the electron density from a partially occupied electron state responsible for the conductivity is shown as gold.

Secretary Bodman to visit Sandia Oct. 5

October 3, 2006 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Samuel W. Bodman will be at Sandia Thursday, Oct. 5, to make an announcement about Sandia’s roles in solid-state lighting and in national and energy security.

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Terrorism: Threats, Training, Tactics and Technology Conference Scheduled for Oct. 4-6 at Sandia

September 18, 2006 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories’ Security Systems & Technology Center and the Terrorism Research Center (TRC) will co-host the “Terrorism: Threats, Training, Tactics and Technology” conference Oct. 4-6, in Bldg. 962.

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Sandia’s community contributions surpass $15 million

August 22, 2006 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The Lockheed Martin Corporation on behalf of Sandia National Laboratories has contributed more than $15 million to Albuquerque-area community organizations since Lockheed Martin became manager of the laboratory Oct. 1, 1993.

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Sandia’s Neutron Generator Production receives Shingo Prize

August 18, 2006 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The Shingo Prize for Excellence in Manufacturing — deemed the Nobel Prize for manufacturing by Business Week — recognized Sandia’s Neutron Generator Production with a Bronze-level Shingo Prize Public Sector Award for 2006. The center produces neutron...

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Rapidly Deployable Chemical Detection System tested at McAfee Stadium

August 15, 2006 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Baseball fans cheering on their beloved Oakland A’s in a recent homestand may have been happy about the team’s play, but the best news for those visitors to McAfee Stadium didn’t take place on the field and couldn’t be noticed by even the most observant...

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Sandia to demonstrate arsenic, radium removal techniques at Navajo Reservation

August 14, 2006 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories will demonstrate two methods of removing arsenic and radium from drinking water at the Pine Hill School Public Water System on the Navajo Nation (Ramah Navajo Reservation) over the next several months.

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Sandia National Laboratories and Monsanto Company announce cooperative research agreement

August 9, 2006 • LIVERMORE, Calif. and ST. LOUIS — Sandia National Laboratories and Monsanto Company today announced a three-year research collaboration that is expected to play a role in both organizations’ interests in biology and bioenergy.

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Sandia National Laboratories researchers Michael Sinclair (foreground) and David Haaland prepare a hyperspectral confocal microscope for measurement of a biological specimen. The new microscope, shown on the left, was designed and fabricated at Sandia and is expected to be used by Monsanto to enhance the company's current crop analytical technologies.

Sandia experimental package of piezoelectric films to be part of NASA space station experiment

August 8, 2006 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — For the past three years a Sandia research team headed by Mat Celina has been investigating the performance of various piezoelectric polymer films that might one day serve as ultra-light mirrors in space telescopes.

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MAT CELINA displays the piezoelectric polymer films that will be tested on an upcoming Materials International Space Station Experiment.

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