Science / Technology / Engineering

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...

August 20, 1996 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Three Sandia National Laboratories scientists who proposed methods to investigate or restore damaged environmental areas each have won grants of more than a million dollars from the Department of Energy to test the validity of their proposals.

July 23, 1996 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- The Department of Energy today announced a five-year, $66 million cooperative research and development agreement between five DOE laboratories and a small California company.

June 5, 1996 • ALBUQUERQUE, NM -- A computer program revised to function up to 300 times faster, the better to simulate radiation effects of nuclear explosions, has improved the capability for more precise radiation treatment for cancer patients, say scientists at Sandia National Laboratories.

June 3, 1996 • ALBUQUERQUE, NM -- Using a low-power laser similar to those at supermarket checkout counters and a half-dollar-sized piece of specially coated optical glass, a simple, reliable method to determine stresses in very thin films of materials used in advanced electronic, optical...

June 3, 1996 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- A melding of new data retrieval technology and the memories of veteran weapons project managers and designers is helping Sandia National Laboratories preserve 20th century technology to ensure responsible stewardship of the nation's nuclear weapons...

May 31, 1996 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy's Defense Programs Office and cooperative research and development agreements with private industry, Sandia National Laboratories is developing a number of computer-based systems that can serve the nation's...

May 16, 1996 • LIVERMORE, Calif. -- The world's first working microelectronic device to be made with extreme ultraviolet light has been fabricated at Sandia National Laboratories/California.

April 24, 1996 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- A pulsed power accelerator at Sandia National Laboratories has in recent weeks quadrupled its output and demonstrated its ability to pump out 85 terawatts of power -- more than 50 times the output of the U.S. utility grid -- causing scientists to revise...

April 18, 1996 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories and General Motors are working together to develop an economical way to make durable aluminum engines by spraying a wear-resistant coating onto the cylinder walls.

April 11, 1996 • They don't make cookies -- the round silicon wafers used for microcircuits -- there anymore, but Sandia National Laboratories' "cookie factory," is back in the production business. The 91,000-square-foot Neutron Generator Facility, which emerged out of the remains of the cookie..

April 9, 1996 • ALBUQUERQUE, NM -- With exclusive license to relevant patents, two researchers from Sandia National Laboratories are commercializing an energy beam that has demonstrated an extraordinary number of practical applications.

March 15, 1996 • In the past two years, a succession of increasingly powerful micromachines have been developed by a team of Sandia researchers. Now they've made smart ones.

March 7, 1996 • A cooperative research and development agreement (CRADA) to develop improved tech-nologies for manufacturing advanced ceramic components was signed last month in Albuquerque, N.M.

March 6, 1996 • Computer scientists at Sandia National Laboratories, working with the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science and The State Museum of Pennsylvania, are applying computer models developed for the Department of Energy to help unravel some of the mystery surrounding...

March 1, 1996 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - A prototype economic model developed on one of the world's fastest supercomputers is including data about human beings to an extent never achieved before.

February 27, 1996 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- A computer control system developed in a cooperative project between Sandia National Laboratories and Delphi Saginaw Steering Systems is saving the automobile parts maker time and money by improving a 50-year-old process that hardens steel parts.