Science / Technology / Engineering

November 15, 2005 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — In the days of $2.50-per-gallon gas, tightening environmental regulations, debate over drilling in nature reserves, and lethal instability in oil-rich regions, is today’s internal combustion engine still relevant? If the hydrogen economy is still decades...

November 15, 2005 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — While Hurricane Katrina was deciding whether to travel up the East Coast or strike New Orleans, a disaster repair crew off the coast of southernmost Georgia was working to raise the sunken host missile for a nuclear weapon.

November 10, 2005 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — A published report developed by a joint team of researchers from Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) is being distributed to airport executives and emergency planners and is expected to aid security managers...

November 1, 2005 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. —— As part of an agreement to identify opportunities for interactive research and development in a broad range of scientific areas, Sandia and The Aerospace Corporation recently signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU).

October 29, 2005 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A research team from the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Sandia National Laboratories has discovered that common anthrax sampling methods need improvement. The research shows that more deadly spores remain after decontamination than previously...

October 27, 2005 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Following up on their well-received first book, Laser Beam Shaping: Theory and Techniques, Sandia National Laboratories researchers Fred Dickey and Scott Holswade have edited (with David Shealy of the University of Alabama at Birmingham) a compact new...

October 27, 2005 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories, along with partners General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. and Sierra Monolithics Inc., demonstrated the Athena Radar-Responsive Tag during Exercise “Urgent Quest” in the United Kingdom (Salisbury Plains Training Area) ...

October 26, 2005 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Will women’s rights groups fall in the battle against religious extremism? Will the elderly monitor battlefields remotely, viewing monitors that free younger people for other tasks? Will blogs fragment the opinions of conventional media? Will international...

September 15, 2005 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories’ half-billion-dollar MESA project is two-thirds complete, with its final building — the Weapons Integration Facility — “over a third done,” says construction project manager Bill Jenkins.

September 7, 2005 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — For the last two years, tests have been conducted at Sandia National Laboratories’ National Solar Thermal Test Facility to see how materials used for NASA’s future planetary exploration missions can withstand severe radiant heating.

August 25, 2005 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Dust from asteroids entering the atmosphere may influence Earth’s weather more than previously believed, researchers have found.

August 23, 2005 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories in California have developed an enhancement to a well known “force phenomenon” called dielectrophoresis that they say could revolutionize the way biological sample preparation is conducted. Sandia is actively...

August 17, 2005 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Several Sandia National Laboratories projects were instrumental in helping NASA with its Space Shuttle Discovery’s return-to-flight mission (STS-114).

August 2, 2005 • Albuquerque, N.M.— Two tiny devices recently developed by researchers at the National Nuclear Security Administration's Sandia National Laboratories could mean the elimination of blood drawing by diabetes patients to test glucose levels or by medical personnel to determine if...

July 28, 2005 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A pilot plant to evaluate commercially available technologies for removing arsenic from municipal drinking water supplies will begin operating in mid-August in Anthony, N.M.

July 21, 2005 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories has completed a two-year study of the potential health effects associated with accidental exposure to depleted uranium (DU) during the 1991 Gulf War.

July 13, 2005 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Some physicists believe that the pulses of power formed in a technique called a Z-pinch may one day be a more efficient source of fusion power than magnetic confinement used by Tokamak reactors, the current leading contender for controlled nuclear fusion.

July 1, 2005 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Like the Creature from the Black Lagoon, the rods of radioactive cobalt-60 rose from their lair, an 18-ft.-deep pool in the Gamma Irradiation Facility of Sandia National Laboratories.

June 30, 2005 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A multi-organizational team is adapting for DOE use a technology that can help keep security adversaries out of DOE sites that contain nuclear assets.

June 21, 2005 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. —Sandia National Laboratories in cooperation with Time Domain Corporation and KoolSpan Inc. has developed a secure wireless Ultra Wideband (UWB) data communication network that can be used to help sensors monitor U.S. Air Force bases and DOE nuclear...

June 20, 2005 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Researchers at the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Sandia National Laboratories flew what is probably the world’s smallest fine-resolution synthetic aperture radar (SAR) in May, making real-time images from the 6-kilometer range with a resolution...

June 16, 2005 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A project to improve the false alarm rate and to standardize the certification of fire detection systems in cargo compartments of commercial aircraft is underway with major participation by Sandia National Laboratories, the Federal Aviation Administration...

June 6, 2005 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Labs has accelerated a small plate from zero to 76,000 mph in less than a second.

June 1, 2005 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Students from Texas Tech University’s Electrical and Computer Engineering Department have won this year’s annual MEMS (micro-electromechanical system) design competition sponsored by Sandia National Laboratories.