Science / Technology / Engineering

June 24, 1997 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- The charge from Sen. Pete Domenici (R-N.M.) in 1994 was straightforward, but that doesn't mean it was simple: Find a way to expedite the movement of freight across the US-Mexico border.

June 11, 1997 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- The full complement of 84 cabinets that compose the teraflops high-performance ultracomputer - the fastest computer in the world - is now operating at Sandia National Laboratories.

May 29, 1997 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- A biochemical technique being refined at Sandia National Laboratories may soon enable sensors that can in seconds detect the equivalent of one contaminant particle among a billion other molecules in waste streams.

May 15, 1997 • Albuquerque, N.M. -- Pat Eicker, Director of Intelligent Systems and Robotics at Sandia National Laboratories, has been named the 1997 recipient of the Joseph F. Engelberger Robotics Award for leadership.

May 9, 1997 • After the euphoric ring of sledgehammer blows on the Berlin Wall echoed away in 1989 and diplomats from the West and the collapsing Soviet Union signed agreements trimming nuclear arsenals, physicists and engineers east and west were left with the daunting task of shifting pro...

May 8, 1997 • A radiation detector the size of a wristwatch with a new kind of crystal and a camera that images and identifies radiation sources, operating at a fraction of its former size, is a finalist in Discover magazine's 1997 Awards for Technological Innovation.

May 1, 1997 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) last week gave an improved type of aircraft fuselage 'patch' a thumbs up and returned a Delta Airlines L-1011 to commercial service.

April 30, 1997 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Even before it's at full strength, the new teraflops (trillion operations per second) supercomputer at Sandia National Laboratories is making a big splash worldwide.

April 24, 1997 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- In 1994, a band of criminals threatened to blow up a nuclear power plant if their friends weren't released immediately from a Lithuanian jail.

April 10, 1997 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- One of the minor horrors of the computer age is to be working on a document not yet saved to the hard drive "memory" and lose everything because of a power outage or a screen freeze-up that forces the operator to shut down the computer.

March 31, 1997 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Four automotive researchers from Sandia National Laboratories have received special recognition from Vice President Al Gore for their work in connection with a multi-player initiative aimed at developing a new generation of fuel-efficient, low-emission veh...

March 18, 1997 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M -- In an effort to cut waste and improve efficiency, Sandia National Laboratories has taken the best industry has to offer to design new purchasing guidelines.

March 17, 1997 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- A pilot school security program between Sandia National Laboratories and Belen High School (N.M.) is being credited for an impressive decline in the number of incidents that typically distress school administrators and students alike -- violence, theft, and d

March 14, 1997 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Modern movie superheroes rescue hostages by evading hailstorms of bullets and harming only evil-doers who resist.

February 10, 1997 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Three cooperative research and development agreements between Sandia and the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company are leading to better tires for Goodyear and improved methods for Sandia's national security work. Goodyear regards the cooperative work so highly that

February 7, 1997 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Sandia scientist Dr. Charles "Jack" Jakowatz has been selected to receive a 1996 Ernest O. Lawrence Award, one of the Department of Energy's top prizes, for achievements that advance the use of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) to detect exceptionally small chan

December 16, 1996 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Achievement of the one-trillion math-operations per second computing milestone ushers in a new era in which high-fidelity 3-D simulation will enable scientists to reach the eventual goal of preserving a safe, secure and reliable nuclear deterrent without...

December 3, 1996 • Albuquerque, N.M. -- Sandia National Laboratories pumped more than $800 million directly into the New Mexico economy in fiscal year 1996 with employee salaries, medical and dental benefits, retiree pensions, commercial purchases, and gross receipts taxes.

December 2, 1996 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- For periods of ten-billionths of a second this fall, a massive accelerator at Sandia National Laboratories consistently emitted intense bursts of more than 40 trillion watts of X-ray power. The highest power pulse was more than 160 trillion watts -- more...

November 14, 1996 • ALBUQUERQUE, N. M. -- As the Russian Mars '96 mission, scheduled for launch this month from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazahkstan, hurtles toward the Red Planet, it will be carrying a key science instrument based on chemical sensor technology developed at Sandia National...

November 12, 1996 • ALBUQUERQUE, NM -- Robotics and intelligent machines already touch the lives of most Americans. And yet that impact is negligible compared to the role those technologies can and will play in America's future, in areas diverse as surgery, entertainment, and packaging the foods...

October 31, 1996 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- U.S. military radio transmissions intercepted by Japanese intelligence during World War II were spoken in such an unusual lexicon that Japan regarded the Americans' "secret code" unbreakable. The code, based on the Navajo language, was used by a select...

October 21, 1996 • Note to Editors: The Oct. 28 dedication will include a media tour at 1:30 p.m., news conference at 2:15 p.m., and the dedication ceremony will begin at 3 p.m. Those scheduled to attend the event and available for interviews include Department of Energy Deputy Secretary Charles...

October 10, 1996 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Imagine the large-scale structure of science displayed as a landscape. That big mountain range with colorful peaks, ridges, and valleys is physics. Chemistry is a range off in the distance, and in another direction is, say, biology. Trails linking ranges...

October 2, 1996 • LIVERMORE, Calif. -- Ten years after the world's worst accident involving a nuclear reactor, a collaboration of private business and researchers from the United States and Belarus is planning to test a potential way to decontaminate forests north of Chernobyl. The project will...