Science / Technology / Engineering

January 17, 2002 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Security experts at Sandia National Laboratories are helping shore up anti-terrorism defenses at the nation’s chemical plants.

January 14, 2002 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A microchain that closely resembles a bicycle chain — except that each link could rest comfortably atop a human hair — has been fabricated at the Department of Energy’s Sandia National Laboratories

January 14, 2002 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — When farm-to-fork systems fail, billions of dollars can be lost and people can die.

January 9, 2002 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have developed software models they think might help not only regions and nations with critical water shortages, but also areas such as the Southwestern U.S. where sound water management policies might avert a crisis

January 8, 2002 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — It was a small problem: a layer of water lying flat instead of slightly bumpy as it froze on a solid.

December 12, 2001 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A research team from the Department of Energy’s Sandia National Laboratories has developed modeling and simulation tools for assessing the threat and vulnerability of buildings to chemical and biological attacks.

December 10, 2001 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Operators of U.S. dams, hydroelectric facilities, and power transmission systems can make their sites less attractive targets to terrorists using new step-by-step security assessment processes developed by the Interagency Forum on Infrastructure Protection...

December 1, 2001 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — In a move to accredit the Weapon Intern Program and advance the state of the art of manufacturing technologies at the Department of Energy’s Sandia National Laboratories, officials from Sandia and New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology will sign two...

November 6, 2001 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — On Oct. 2, 2001, six mentors, six protégés, and four business service advisors gathered for the kick-off of the 2001-2002 Sandia National Laboratories Office of Small Business Advocacy Mentor/Protégé Program.

November 5, 2001 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Nuail Technologies, Inc., has been awarded a $550,000 contract to develop software applications for the Advanced Planning and Modeling group at Sandia National Laboratories. The total potential contract value is $1,650,000 including two one-year renewable...

October 26, 2001 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Federal authorities are using a decontamination formulation developed at the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) Sandia National Laboratories to help rid Capitol Hill buildings of anthrax this week.

October 17, 2001 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Just as a movie theater’s “coming attractions” help viewers choose movies they may want to see, preview images — computer -generated — of possible micromachines help designers choose the device they want fully fabricated.

October 3, 2001 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories researcher Jeffrey Danneels has some answers about how water distribution systems in this country can remain secure.

October 3, 2001 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A real-time gas- and water-quality monitoring system that consists of a miniature sensor array packaged in a weatherproof housing developed by the Department of Energy’s Sandia National Laboratories may become one tool in the effort to protect the nation’s...

September 25, 2001 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A Sandia National Laboratories research team, led by scientist Jim Aubert, has developed a removable epoxy adhesive that makes bonding and detaching parts a matter of temperature change.

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...