Science / Technology / Engineering

April 27, 1999 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Bees dutifully going about their daily business -- gathering nectar and pollen and taking it back to the hive -- may one day help protect the lives and limbs of people, literally, if a landmine-detection demonstration at the Department of Energy's Sandia...

April 6, 1999 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- The Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories, five commercial ceramic manufacturers, and Los Alamos National Laboratory are making ceramic history by taking the "art" out of ceramics production and replacing it with science, resulting in better...

March 24, 1999 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Some 250 internationally known experts representing the United Nations, NATO, and more than 40 countries will gather here April 16-18 to discuss how to deal with the spread of chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons and the technologies required to...

March 3, 1999 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- You come upon an unfamiliar briefcase leaning against a wall in the building in which you work. Or maybe it's sitting on a chair that shouldn't have a briefcase on it. If no one claims it, you might be tempted to open the latch to see to...

March 1, 1999 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Emergency personnel responding to a terrorist release of chemical or biological warfare agents will be faced with a dilemma: If they enter the scene without knowing the dangers, they might become a victim. If they wait to evaluate, more people might die...

February 24, 1999 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- That proteins fold isn't just a good idea, it's the law -- the law of life.

February 4, 1999 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- An engineer at the U.S. Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories has developed a new way to fabricate ceramics that requires no molds or machining.

February 3, 1999 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- MicroDexterity, a company launched by an eye surgeon who needed a robotic device that would eliminate any tremors in the hands of surgeons performing critically delicate procedures, has become the third company to establish operations at the Sandia Science...

January 18, 1999 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- When disaster strikes, people evacuate. That's because the structures that normally protect us -- buildings, bridges, dams, and tunnels -- are often the most dangerous places to be during catastrophes like hurricanes, earthquakes, industrial accidents, or...

January 6, 1999 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- In their greatest success, researchers Shawn Lin and Jim Fleming at the US Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories have created a microscopic three-dimensional lattice that confines light at optical wavelengths.

December 16, 1998 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Research underway at the US Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories to improve lithium ion battery materials may result in smaller, longer-lasting batteries for applications as diverse as portable computers and electric vehicles.

December 8, 1998 • Microchips -- the kind used in everything from personal computers to automobile electronics to breadmaking machines -- work fine in their intended environments. But if you try to operate one of these generic microchips in the presence of ionizing radiation, the kind that...

December 3, 1998 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Data classification, often considered a humdrum task, really is no such thing when the stakes are high enough.

November 10, 1998 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Just as scientists need very fast number-crunching computers to replace physical testing with computer models, business people need a corollary procedure: very fast data sorting -- the ability to manipulate huge amounts of data rapidly.

October 29, 1998 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., announced on Thursday, Oct. 29, establishment of a new national center of expertise in school security technology, to be based at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque.

October 12, 1998 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- The "world's smallest combination lock," a minuscule mechanical device developed at Sandia National Laboratories, promises to build a virtually impenetrable computer firewall that even the best hacker can't beat.

October 8, 1998 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- On the heels of his July 16 Nature paper about improving night vision devices with an artificial lattice that efficiently bends infrared light...

September 28, 1998 • ALBUQUERQUE, N. M. -- The US Department of Energy (DOE) and Lockheed Martin Corporation today signed a contract modification to extend Lockheed Martin's management of Sandia National Laboratories for five more years.

September 15, 1998 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- By interlocking tiny slivers of silicon into a lattice that, under a microscope, appears to be formed by toy Lincoln Logs, scientists at the Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories believe they have solved a major technical problem: how to bend...

September 1, 1998 • MAMMOTH LAKES, CALIF. -- Resumed drilling at the Long Valley Exploratory Well near Mammoth Lakes, Calif., may provide new clues about local volcanic hazards and the role of underground magma in the energy future of California. The drilling operations are being led by a team...

August 21, 1998 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Fewer failures in satellites used for everything from communications to surveillance may be the result of bipolar electronics reliability tests developed by Sandia National Laboratories, a Department of Energy (DOE) national security research lab, and a...

August 3, 1998 • ALBUQUERQUE, NM -- The Cold War has been over for more than seven years, but most Americans continue to believe the U.S. remains at risk of nuclear conflict, and they support maintenance of a stockpile of nuclear weapons to ensure the safety of the country.

July 16, 1998 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- In a few years a dime-size microchip may be home to as many as 10 million transistors. But the electrical resistance created as all those snug circuits zap electrons back and forth are causing even today's tightly packaged microprocessors to get...

July 16, 1998 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Humanity has valued seashells for their beauty as ornaments and utility as tools for thousands of years. But even alchemists never tried transmuting base materials into the very fine interlayering necessary to create a shell's strength, hardness, and...

July 7, 1998 • ALBUQUERQUE, NM -- Within the next few years, your watch, television, and computer may all contain microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), micron-size machines being developed at Sandia National Laboratories, a Department of Energy national security lab.