Science / Technology / Engineering

September 16, 2003 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Officials of Sandia National Laboratories, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology this week are establishing the Center for Energetic Materials and Energetic Devices (CEMED).

September 9, 2003 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Engineers at Sandia National Laboratories in California have designed a miniature power supply device with potential applications in drug delivery systems, medicine, portable detection and analysis, and a host of electronic devices.

August 18, 2003 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia researchers are developing complex nanomaterials that look strikingly similar to the microstructures of diatoms and seashells. The materials may have potential for a wide range of applications.

August 14, 2003 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — On Tuesday, Aug. 19, US Department of Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham and National Nuclear Security Administrator Linton Brooks will join New Mexico Senators Pete Domenici (R) and Jeff Bingaman (D) and Rep. Heather Wilson (R) along with senior management...

August 13, 2003 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A new type of “smart” machine that could fundamentally change how people interact with computers is on the not-too-distant horizon at the Department of Energy’s Sandia National Laboratories.

August 7, 2003 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Some members of New Mexico’s law enforcement community this week are attending a Sandia National Laboratories training course that will help them protect the state’s infrastructures from terrorist attacks.

July 23, 2003 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories researchers won seven R&D 100 awards this year — the most the Labs has won since it garnered eight, its most ever, in 1997.

July 22, 2003 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A microdevice whose business end looks like the gold-coated spine of a very tiny mouse, with each “vertebrae” line separated from the next by about a third the width of a human hair, has been demonstrated to easily collect and release proteins in aqueous...

July 22, 2003 • MANHATTAN, Kan. — As Mike Whitehair quietly moves through the pen of cattle, something captures his attention. The Abilene, Kan., veterinarian pauses, pulls out a cell phone and punches in a code — not to make a call — but to start through a series of questions on the tiny...

July 14, 2003 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — In a different approach to creating white light several researchers at the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Sandia National Laboratories have developed the first solid-state white light-emitting device using quantum dots. In the future, the use of quantum dots...

July 7, 2003 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — You can‘t get something for nothing, physicists say, but sometimes a radical innovation can come close.

July 2, 2003 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Locked in a “war room” for a day, representatives from Sandia National Laboratories and 24 other officials, mostly from the Alameda County Public Health Department (ACPHD), teamed up recently in a simulated bioterrorism event to evaluate Alameda County’s...

May 15, 2003 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — In an operating room in Carle Hospital in Urbana, Ill., on May 7, as scientists from the University of Illinois (UI) and Sandia National Laboratories watched, surgeon Michael Goldwasser fitted a highly unusual ceramic prosthetic device into the mouth of an...

April 8, 2003 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A new process of growing gallium nitride on an etched sapphire substrate, called cantilever epitaxy, may help light up the world with brighter green, blue, and even white semiconductor light emitting diodes (LEDs) — solid-state lighting. The process was...

April 7, 2003 • PHILADELPHIA, Pa. — Throwing its hat into the ring of machines that offer the possibility of achieving controlled nuclear fusion, Sandia National Laboratories’ Z machine has created a hot dense plasma that produces thermonuclear neutrons, Sandia researchers announced today at...

April 2, 2003 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Building on the success of a program first employed at Washington, D.C.’s Metro subway system, researchers at the Department of Energy’s Sandia National Laboratories in California are working with San Francisco International Airport (SFO) to test...

March 27, 2003 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The United States Forest Service (USFS) this week re-activated the first two large firefighting tankers using an improved aircraft inspection and certification program designed at the Department of Energy’s Sandia National Laboratories.

March 20, 2003 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories President C. Paul Robinson today announced that a recent lab self-assessment and an ongoing investigation have revealed serious concerns about the management of the lab’s security force. He specified actions Sandia has taken...

March 6, 2003 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, Calif., have developed a new class of composite anode materials composed of silicon and graphite that may double the energy storage capacities currently possessed by...

February 18, 2003 • ALBUQUERQUE/LOS ALAMOS, N.M. — Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Center for Homeland Security, in partnership with Sandia National Laboratories, is announcing a homeland security workshop for local, state and regional first responders.

February 18, 2003 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Officials of the University of New Mexico, Sandia National Laboratories, and Lockheed Martin Corporation on Wednesday will sign an agreement that formalizes a unique collaborative initiative to nurture scholarly thought and research on policy issues linked...

February 12, 2003 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The Department of Energy’s Sandia National Laboratories and the Bureau of Reclamation today announced the release of a research road map to guide future investments necessary to reduce the cost of water desalination.

January 23, 2003 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A half-ounce ‘sniffer’ intended to ride on small aerial drones to detect possible gas attacks on cities and military bases has been created by researchers at Sandia National Laboratories in partnership with Lockheed Martin Corporation.

December 16, 2002 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A surgeon in New York who wants the opinion quickly of a specialist in Los Angeles probably would send medical MRI [magnetic resonance imaging] files as e-mail attachments or make them accessible in Internet drop zones. Unfortunately for patients on operating

December 13, 2002 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories President and Director C. Paul Robinson said today the Department of Energy’s intent to extend Lockheed Martin Corporation’s management contract for Sandia provides continuity for Sandia and will benefit the nation.