Science / Technology / Engineering

May 1, 1998 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- A recent Sandia National Laboratories' double-blind test of an instrument that its manufacturer said could detect the presence of human beings at a distance through any material found no evidence that it could do so.

April 29, 1998 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Research under way in Sandia National Laboratories' Geothermal Research Department may improve the economic feasibility of using geothermal energy -- water heated deep inside the earth's crust -- to produce electricity.

April 23, 1998 • LIVERMORE, Calif. -- Extending our senses beyond their current limits, bits of hardware may one day discern the faint but informative presence of trace chemicals while mounted on bands of small vehicles that cooperatively canvass the countryside.

April 17, 1998 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Sandia National Laboratories has expanded its partnership with Pacific Scientific Company to manufacture, test, and supply vital components for national defense weapons systems. Sandia and Pacific Scientific officials celebrated the expanded partnership at...

April 10, 1998 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- The Hispanic Engineer and Information Technology Magazine has recognized Sandia National Laboratories engineers Dr. Dan Arvizu, Director of Materials and Process Science Center, and Dr. Nestor Ortiz, Director of Nuclear Energy Technology Center, and former...

April 8, 1998 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Eliminate stress, the saying goes, and you live longer. Apparently the same is true of certain diamond coatings.

April 8, 1998 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Permission to prepare a conceptual design for an accelerator, X-1, has been formally requested by Sandia National Laboratories President Paul Robinson in a letter to the Department of Energy (DOE).

March 27, 1998 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- A device expected to be potentially less expensive and more effective than any on the market in helping cool silicon wafers during the chip manufacturing process has been patented in prototype by researchers at Sandia National Laboratories.

March 17, 1998 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Some 180 internationally known experts representing the United Nations, NATO, and about 40 countries will gather here April 3-5 to discuss how to deal with the spread of chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons and the technologies required to monitor them.

March 2, 1998 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories' Z machine -- the former dark horse among accelerators meant to produce conditions required for nuclear fusion -- have increased the machine's X-ray power output by nearly 10 times in the last two years.

March 2, 1998 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Sandia National Laboratories President and Director C. Paul Robinson has been elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), one of the highest distinctions accorded an engineer.

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.