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‘Hot laps’ to become yesterday’s problem

December 4, 2002 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Laptops make laps hot, as users of mobile lightweight computers sometimes learn dramatically. And things could get worse: upcoming chips may produce 100 watts per square centimeter — the heat generated by a light bulb — creating the effect of an unpleasantly

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Sandia to host Strategic Indirect Warfare Conference

November 25, 2002 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — An improved understanding of America’s war on terror both at home and abroad and its impact on our nation are among the goals of the Strategic Indirect Warfare 2002 Conference, Dec. 3-5 at the Albuquerque Marriott Hotel, 2101 Louisiana NE. Hosted by the Department of Energy’s Sandia...

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Sandia’s Salinas code shares Gordon Bell Award

November 25, 2002 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories’ supercomputer program Salinas, which tested out at 1.16 teraflops/sec, shared the prestigious Gordon Bell Award at the SC2002 conference last week in Baltimore.

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Sandia partners with University of New Haven to offer advanced degree program in national security

November 13, 2002 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — College students seeking academic instruction that could help the U.S. win the war on terrorism will soon have an opportunity to learn from the best and the brightest and earn a Masters of Science Degree in National Security and Public Safety to boot.

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Sandia-developed field kit helping nation’s police departments solve real crimes

November 12, 2002 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A chemical detection technique developed at the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Sandia National Laboratories and licensed to a Colorado Springs company has helped police departments solve at least five real crimes, including four murders, in recent

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Sandia research with new reactor could mean significant savings in the eventual safe transport, storage, disposal of nuclear waste

November 5, 2002 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Recent experiments by Sandia National Laboratories researcher Gary Harms and his team are using a new Labs-built reactor to provide benchmarks showing that spent nuclear fuel — uranium that has been used as fuel at a nuclear power plant — is considerably less

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Sandia’s Julia Phillips wins first Horizon Award

October 30, 2002 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Julia Phillips, Director of the Physical & Chemical Sciences Center at Sandia National Laboratories, was awarded the US Department of Labor Women’s Bureau’s Horizon Award at a recent New Mexico Commission on the Status of Women Estrella Award ceremony.

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BRAT may assess risks of terrorism, natural disasters to dairies, feedlots, ranches, food packaging

October 30, 2002 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — BRAT, a new tool based on the Sandia National Laboratories-developed software RAMPART-GSA, may soon be applied to dairies, feedlots, ranches and food packaging. RAMPART-GSA assesses the risks of terrorism, natural disasters and crime to government buildings

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Sandia National Laboratories and Cray Inc. finalize $90 million contract for new supercomputer

October 21, 2002 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. and SEATTLE, Wash. — The Department of Energy’s Sandia National Laboratories and Cray Inc. (Nasdaq NM: CRAY) today announced that they have finalized a multiyear contract, valued at approximately $90 million, under which Cray will collaborate with Sandia to dev

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Sandia’s biotech initiative

October 21, 2002 • Sandia’s biotech initiative

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Wide civilian and military distribution expected

October 21, 2002 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A disposable plastic bag resembling the common kitchen garbage bag, its interior fed by a simple oxygen canister monitored by inexpensive, deceptively simple plastic instruments, has been licensed by the federal government as a tool to heal the sick and the w

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Sandia pursues biotechnology as new technology focus area

October 21, 2002 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories is expanding its work in biotechnology — combining traditional inorganic sciences with biology — to push scientific discovery and development into such areas as the creation of new materials and to help in America’s war on ...

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Research may result in new ways to detect biotoxins or drugs that will block them

October 21, 2002 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A team of about 30 scientists from Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico and California are striving to better comprehend communication across cell membranes via protein interactions. This is the kind of knowledge needed to develop new methods to detect

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Membrane proteins play role in causing healthy cells to get sick, Sandia scientists learn

October 21, 2002 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Researchers working on the Sandia National Laboratories Interfacial Bioscience (IBIG) project have learned a lot over the past two years about the role membrane proteins play in causing healthy cellular processes to go awry during illness or injury.

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Molecular Integrated Microsystems grand challenge pursues revolutionary approach to microsystems

October 21, 2002 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The next generation of microsystems may be like nothing anyone has ever seen.

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Sandia researchers study microchannels in chips that speed protein sorting

October 21, 2002 • LIVERMORE, CALIF. — If a cell typically contains 10,000 to 100,000 proteins or subcomponent peptides, then discerning distinct identities of only a few can be like looking for a proverbial needle in a haystack.

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Sandia researcher explores ways to develop ‘smart’ materials that behave like living systems

October 21, 2002 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Imagine a new “smart” material that can “heal” itself like a living system.

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Sandia researching new way to power small devices using living biological systems

October 21, 2002 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Tomorrow’s sensors, communication devices and other microelectronics technology may be powered by life. That is, powered by glucose obtained from living biological systems, ranging from human skin to plant tissues.

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How Sandia’s bio-microfuel cell works

October 21, 2002 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The bio-microfuel cell being developed by researchers at Sandia National Laboratories works similarly to a battery. The main difference is that a battery is a “closed” system; its lifetime is fixed by the amount of reactants packaged inside it. The fuel ...

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Sandia/UNM researching microarray technology for new ways to diagnose, prevent illnesses

October 21, 2002 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories and the University of New Mexico (UNM) are working together to gain a greater understanding of genomics and ultimately to find new ways to diagnose, treat and prevent illnesses.

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Microarrayer important tool in research

October 21, 2002 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The genome microarray studies being done by Sandia National Laboratories and the University of New Mexico (UNM) rely on two major enabling technologies: the arrays themselves and the scanners that read the information from the arrays.

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Sandia-built hyperspectral imager provides better scanning

October 21, 2002 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories and the University of New Mexico have produced better scanning technology by developing a new kind of scanner called a hyperspectral imager.

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Sandia VxInsight data-mining software used to analyze data

October 21, 2002 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A final step for both the University of New Mexico (UNM) and Keck projects is analyzing, archiving, and annotating the data to determine gene relationships. Many approaches have been taken in these analyses.

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New Sandia-developed miniaturized lipid biosensor may rapidly detect biological agents

October 21, 2002 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Ultrathin double layers of self-assembled fat molecules — resembling and acting much like soap bubbles — are at the heart of a new, dime-size biosensor being developed by a team of researchers at Sandia National Laboratories.

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Sandia scientist’s concept for biowarfare early-warning system clears U.S. Senate

October 10, 2002 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A worldwide early-warning system that could alert international authorities of covert biological weapons research or use is part of a measure recently passed by the U.S. Senate and awaiting consideration by the U.S. House of Representatives.

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