Science / Technology / Engineering

September 5, 2001 • AMARILLO, Texas — Design has begun on a new Weapons Evaluation Test Laboratory (WETL) at the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) Pantex Plant near Amarillo.

August 30, 2001 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — To create high-yield nuclear fusion that will ultimately produce cheap electric power from sea water, researchers must be able to evenly compress a BB-sized pellet so that its atoms are forced to fuse.

August 30, 2001 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Coffee beans spilled upon a table form no pattern, they’re a mess, their distribution dictated by the laws of chance.

August 22, 2001 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories has awarded a $48,000 contract to locally owned Team Specialty Products (TSP) Corp. to provide developmental testing gages to Sandia.

August 15, 2001 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories has awarded a one-year contract worth $675,000 to locally owned ATA Sensors to manufacture angular displacement sensors to be installed on satellite payloads.

August 15, 2001 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Silicon microteeth that open and close like jaws have been developed at Sandia National Laboratories.

August 9, 2001 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Small businesses wanting to improve their business practices and procedures to become better, more effective suppliers can learn more about a new program to help them do that in free information sessions this month in three New Mexico cities:...

August 8, 2001 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories and Lockheed Martin Corporation are sponsoring the sixth Annual Student Internship Program Symposium at the Albuquerque Old Town Sheraton Hotel on Aug. 9. Some 250 students from Sandia and other national labs are presenting...

August 1, 2001 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — State and local law enforcement and corrections officials from New Mexico and across the nation are getting a crash course in security techniques and technologies this week from Sandia National Laboratories.

July 19, 2001 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — RAMPART, software developed by Sandia National Laboratories that is the first risk-based approach to building management, may soon help the General Services Administration (GSA) assess the risks of terrorism, natural disasters and crime to the nearly 8,000...

July 12, 2001 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A 10-foot-high, 13-foot-wide screen that makes high-definition television look as grainy as an old TV in a cheap motel has been unveiled by Sandia National Laboratories.

July 2, 2001 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories has received the U.S. Department of Energy’s Small Business Special Emphasis Award. The award was presented at the second annual DOE Small Business Conference, “Excellence in Energy with Small Businesses,” in Las Vegas, Nev...

July 2, 2001 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have unveiled a wheeled police robot that makes many of the “how to” decisions on its own, freeing up its operator to make the more critical “what to do next” decisions during potentially dangerous bomb-disablement..

June 25, 2001 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — You might call it the “science of splat.”

June 6, 2001 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Science teachers from 11 metropolitan area high schools have received Excellence in Science Teaching awards from Sandia National Laboratories and Lockheed Martin Corp. (LMC). One of the 11, Lisa Durkin, who teaches science at Los Lunas High School, was...

June 6, 2001 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A computer program that enables a collection of off-the-shelf desktop computers to rank among the world’s fastest supercomputers has been released to the public by Sandia National Laboratories. The program, called Cplant™ system software, dramatically...

May 24, 2001 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories researchers have used supercomputers to design new chemicals with flypaper-like arsenic-trapping properties.

May 7, 2001 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — An optical beam failure analysis technique that detects integrated circuit defects from both the front and back of the device has been developed at Sandia National Laboratories. The TIVA (thermally-induced voltage alteration)/SEI (Seebeck Effect Imaging)...

April 26, 2001 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Sandia National Laboratories engineer Ken Condreva has built a better stopwatch. It’s smaller than a dime, accurate to 125 picoseconds, and can be produced far more inexpensively than comparable devices.

April 24, 2001 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The solution to some of the country’s energy woes might be little more than hot air.

April 19, 2001 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Intelligent nanostructures that report on their environment by changing color from blue to fluorescent red under mechanical, chemical, or thermal stress have been created by researchers at Sandia National Laboratories and the University of New Mexico.

April 18, 2001 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Training more and better information technology professionals in New Mexico is the goal of a new Institute for Object Technology (IOT) at the University of New Mexico. Initial sponsor Sandia National Laboratories is collaborating with UNM to ensure that the...

April 11, 2001 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Industry and government officials today announced completion of the first full-scale prototype machine for making computer chips using extreme ultraviolet (EUV) light, a breakthrough that will lead to microprocessors that are tens of times faster than...

April 11, 2001 • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratories in California have joined efforts as a Virtual National Laboratory to develop technology that arose from research capabilities in the 1980s.

April 10, 2001 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A new technique developed by researchers at Sandia National Laboratories using an inexpensive disposable fiber optics telemetry system to relay real-time information about the drilling process is capturing oil and gas industry attention.