Science / Technology / Engineering

February 27, 1998 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Sandia National Laboratories' micromachines are tiny little marvels, but now they have a spokesman who is bigger than life.

February 18, 1998 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., today named Sandia National Laboratories to head a new national center of expertise for school security technologies and approaches. Bingaman plans to introduce Congressional legislation establishing the center next week...

February 11, 1998 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Improvements in the transistor of the future may not rely on decreasing its size but rather on a radical change in operation made possible by a quantum mechanical transistor created at Sandia National Laboratories.

February 10, 1998 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- A Sandia National Laboratories physicist and his Texas-based research colleague have done some calculations that may offer additional insight into a decade-old astronomical controversy about whether up to 30,000 house-sized snowballs, or icy comets,...

February 4, 1998 • The portable Josephson Voltage Standard, a new compact, fully automated calibration system for DC reference standards and digital voltmeters, has been developed over the past three years by Sandia National Laboratories in cooperation with the National Institute of Standards...

December 18, 1997 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Sandia National Laboratories has joined the effort to rid the planet of what some people have called its worst form of pollution -- land mines.

December 5, 1997 • Scientists at Sandia National Laboratories and the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science have collaborated to recreate the sound a dinosaur made 75 million years ago.

December 4, 1997 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Commercialization of a possibly pivotal manufacturing technology is the goal of 10 companies teamed in a $3 million, two-year agreement with Sandia National Laboratories.

November 21, 1997 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- First, there were micromachines -- actually, microengines -- each about the size of a grain of sand.

November 11, 1997 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- After the horrors of enduring a foot amputation due to disease, accident or landmine, one learns that a prosthesis -- say, an artificial foot and ankle -- doesn't flex with the intricacy of a natural limb and may be uncomfortable to use.

October 31, 1997 • Trying to determine the nature of the air and ground emissions released during disposal of excess munitions through open burning or open detonation, researchers from Sandia National Laboratories and other labs have begun a series of tests inside a sealed, underground chamber at t

October 24, 1997 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- A missile or space ship, spinning like a football or Olympic diver as it reenters Earth's atmosphere, ordinarily is designed to be perfectly balanced -- with tight control over the distribution of mass within it -- to avoid flight instabilities. Unguided weap

October 20, 1997 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Some evidence is hard to find, particularly the kinds of evidence that can help police place the perpetrator at the scene of the crime -- fingerprints, semen, urine, and other organic substances that carry clues to a criminal's identity.

October 20, 1997 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- The results of a series of field tests carried out at six producing U.S. oil wells are now available to members of the petroleum industry on a free CD-ROM put together by Sandia National Laboratories.

October 16, 1997 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- The Ensign-Bickford Co. (EBCo) and Sandia National Laboratories will work together under a new partnership to enhance the safety and reliability of explosive components used in national defense weapons systems and in civilian applications.

October 3, 1997 • Albuquerque, N.M. -- After a year of detective work involving scores of eyewitness reports from across New Mexico and Texas, a group of scientists has concluded that the Earth collided with a swarm of cosmic debris on the night of Oct. 3-4, 1996.

September 29, 1997 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- The Federal Aviation Administration has selected Sandia National Laboratories and eight universities to pilot its new Airworthiness Assurance "Center of Excellence," a research and development partnership intended to help carry America's fleet of commercial

September 29, 1997 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- A coating that allows miniature sensors to detect dangerous, even lethal, air- or water-borne molecules much more quickly has been created in a joint project of Sandia National Laboratories and the University of New Mexico. The achievement is reported in the

September 15, 1997 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Some airline passengers visiting the main security checkpoint at the Albuquerque International Airport this week are being asked to try out tomorrow's technology for combating terrorism -- an "explosives-detection portal" under development at Sandia National

September 10, 1997 • Sandia and Los Alamos national laboratories scientists already are analyzing reams of data being downloaded from the 7-foot high FORTE satellite, orbiting 500 miles above the Earth. Four times a day the satellite passes within communicating distance of the Sandia National Laborat

September 2, 1997 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- A glitch in a microchip manufacturing plant can be costly. After hundreds of internal processes have nearly fabricated the next batch of wafers and, say, circuits are plasma-etched to the wrong depth and the defect goes unnoticed, the ruined lot may mean mill

August 28, 1997 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- The Cold War has ended, but the threat posed by weapons of mass destruction remains.

August 15, 1997 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- A revolutionary handheld laser device that in a few moments can detect and then track disorders of the blood has been patented in prototype by scientists at Sandia National Laboratories and the National Institutes of Health.

August 7, 1997 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Nuclear-material shipping casks transported inside standard steel shipping containers can survive large fires and still protect their contents and prevent radioactive material releases, according to preliminary results from recent fire endurance tests.

August 1, 1997 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- If the power and temperatures generated recently by Sandia's Z accelerator were graphed like stock prices, brokers would describe them as going through the roof and still climbing.