Science / Technology / Engineering

January 11, 2005 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — There you are, tapping your fingers on the cold steering wheel as your windows cloud over from your breath. How could you have known your car battery was that low?

January 7, 2005 • DETROIT, Mich., and LIVERMORE, Calif. — General Motors Corp. and Sandia National Laboratories have launched a partnership to design and test an advanced method for storing hydrogen based on metal hydrides.

January 5, 2005 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A workshop for high school physics teachers will be held Saturday, Jan. 8, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., at the Albuquerque Convention Center in the Ruidoso Room, East Complex Upper level.

December 9, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — An eclectic group of artists and scientists that organizers have dubbed the “dream team” of imaging and visualization are gathered at New York University this week to begin to create a photographic system capable of capturing and displaying a gigapixel...

December 7, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Over the next few weeks researchers at the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Sandia National Laboratories will begin testing innovative ways to treat arsenic-contaminated water in an effort to reduce costs to municipalities of meeting the new...

November 18, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories is looking for businesses to serve as either mentors or protégés in its Mentor Protégé Program (MPP) for next year.

November 10, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Peering into the center of Sandia National Laboratory’s Z machine as it fires had been a feat unachievable for a decade.

November 4, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A radar, originally developed by the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Sandia National Laboratories for military surveillance and reconnaissance applications, is helping a volunteer search and rescue group save lives.

October 21, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories’ Z machine, which last year emitted neutrons to enter the race to provide the world virtually unlimited electricity from, essentially, seawater, has received approval from the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) to...

October 19, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — To attract new high tech businesses and jobs to New Mexico, the state’s business, government, and academic institutions must collaborate to develop an educational infrastructure and workforce that offers the right engineering skills and manufacturing...

September 29, 2004 • AMARILLO, TEXAS — Area news media are invited to a ceremony Oct. 5 at 11 a.m. marking the completion of construction of the new Weapons Evaluation Test Laboratory (WETL) at the Pantex Plant in Amarillo, Texas.

September 29, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A new class of very small handheld devices can detect motion a thousand times more subtly than any tool known.

September 7, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Researchers at the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Sandia National Laboratories are helping the U.S. Navy create the next generation of aircraft carriers by reviewing and analyzing current Carrier Air Wing flight operations, maintenance, and...

September 1, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories has restarted its operations involving Classified Removable Electronic Media (CREM).

August 4, 2004 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — While some 15,000 Livermore residents and visitors enjoyed barbecues, music, picnics, and other Fourth of July festivities, Sandia National Laboratories researchers and their counterparts at the City of Livermore Police Department (LPD) were using the...

July 28, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories’ Cooperative Monitoring Center (CMC) celebrates its 10th anniversary on Thursday, July 29, with a series of speakers that reflect the Center’s international missions. (See speakers list below.)

July 16, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories has located a floppy disk that had turned up missing in a recent inventory. The floppy disk, which had been marked classified, was found about 1 p.m. today (Friday). Sandia had reported the disk as missing June 30 in a wall-to-...

July 15, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories is searching for a missing floppy disk that was marked classified.

June 22, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The National Nuclear Security Administration’s Sandia National Laboratories’ Engineering Sciences Center, and its Fire Science and Technology Department, have established a collaborative research and development agreement (CRADA) with FM Global, a large-los...

June 22, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A wireless nanodevice that functions like a fluorescent light — but potentially far more efficiently — has been developed in a joint project between the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Los Alamos and Sandia national laboratories.

June 10, 2004 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — A dedication ceremony for the new Distributed Information Systems Laboratory (DISL) took place today on the grounds of Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore.

May 18, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories completed its third year of providing technical assistance to New Mexico small businesses last year through a tax credit passed by the New Mexico Legislature. Nearly 300 small businesses were assisted throughout New Mexico in 2003.

May 6, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The National Nuclear Security Administration’s Sandia National Laboratories and the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs (UCCS) will sign a memorandum of understanding (MOU) as a basis for future technical collaborations at 11 a.m. May 11 at the UCCS...

May 3, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — In an effort to expand teaming efforts with the Native American community, Sandia has entered into a formal Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the National Center for American Indian Enterprise Development (NCAIED).