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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 we eat, say many of the nation's...

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 underground testing. Intel Corp. computer engineers demonstrated the one-teraflops breakthrough,...

December 18, 1997 • MINE SNIFFER -- Sandia's Phil Rodacy demonstrates a mock chemical-sensing detector on an unfuzed antitank mine. A field-ready sensor probably will look similar to the mock detector and will be easy to use. (Photo by Randy Montoya) ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Sandia National Laboratories has joined the effort to rid the...

March 3, 1999 • SOMETHING WRONG WITH THAT PACKAGE -- Sandia researcher Grant Lockwood holds a laboratory version of his off-the-shelf X-ray source to safely examine the insides of containers that could conceal bombs. Shown in the already opened box are two simulated sticks of dynamite, a timer, and a detonator.(Photo by Randy Montoya)Download...

February 13, 2002 • Sandia National Laboratories explosive expert Pam Walker demonstrates use of a fiberglass swab that is part of a new Instant Shooter ID Kit police officers can use to rapidly determine whether a suspect in a violent crime has recently fired a gun. (Photo by Randy Montoya) ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Explosives...

June 17, 1999 • Sandia's Linda Gallagher checks her blood oxygenation and pressure with sensors connected to a state-of-the-art unit from TelAssist Corp. The work is part of a Sandia effort to develop secure online telemedicine techniques. (Photo by Randy Montoya)Download 300dpi JPEG image, 'telemed.jpg', 1.3Mb (Media are welcome to download/publish this image with related news...

April 3, 2002 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — It’s been an interesting year for arms control negotiators and policymakers. In the past 12 months, US-Russia nuclear postures have evolved, nuclear proliferation fears have been raised, the US ballistic missile defense regime has matured, and much of the world has united against terrorism. This month some...

September 23, 1999 • VIRTUAL LIFE-SAVER -- Lydia Tapia of Sandia National Laboratories demonstrates BioSimMER, a virtual reality application that allows rescue personnel to practice responding to a terrorist attack involving release of a biological agent. Through her goggles, Lydia sees the scene that is displayed on the screen behind her. The virtual patient...

September 1, 1998 • DRILLING RESUMES -- Drilling resumed in July at the Long Valley Exploratory Well to determine how deep magma flows under the tree-lined mountain terrain near Mammoth Lakes, Calif. (Photo by Randy Montoya)Download 150dpi JPEG image, 'mammoth.jpg', 540K MAMMOTH LAKES, CALIF. -- Resumed drilling at the Long Valley Exploratory Well near Mammoth...

April 11, 2001 • THIS COMPUTER-GENERATED illustration shows extreme ultraviolet light (EUVL) as a beam (colored purple) being generated from a plasma source in the top right-hand side of the apparatus, which was assembled at Sandia/California.Download 300dpi JPEG image, ‘chamber2.jpg’, 372K (Media are welcome to download/publish this image with related news stories.) LIVERMORE, Calif. —...

September 5, 2002 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Enabling the blind to see — a task once thought the province of miracles — is the goal of a technical team that includes Sandia National Laboratories, four other national labs, a private company, and two universities. GOT YOU IN MY SIGHTS — A prototype of the...

February 18, 2004 • ONE PRIMARY APPLICATION of miniSAR will be reconnaissance on small UAVs such as the AAI Corp. Shadow seen in this picture. This class of small UAVs can carry a payload of 50 pounds, which is considerably less than existing small UAVs can carry. The miniSAR will have two primary applications....

February 18, 2003 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Officials of the University of New Mexico, Sandia National Laboratories, and Lockheed Martin Corporation on Wednesday will sign an agreement that formalizes a unique collaborative initiative to nurture scholarly thought and research on policy issues linked to threats to national and international security. A new Office for...

July 28, 2004 • Kent Biringer (center) of Sandia’s Cooperative Monitoring Center (CMC) shows Nazir Kamal (left), an international relations expert from Pakistan, and Pravin Sawhney, a journalist and former major in the Indian army, a model of a nuclear missile in this 1998 photo taken at the CMC. Kamal and Sawhney were at...

November 4, 2004 • SAR FOR SAR — Sandia researcher Bill Scherzinger, president of the Albuquerque Mountain Rescue Council, looks at a SAR map and a standard topographic map used in search and rescue missions. (Photo by Randy Montoya)Download 300dpi JPEG image, ‘SAR-map.jpg’, 1.6MB (Media are welcome to download/publish this image with related news stories.) ALBUQUERQUE,...

September 16, 2003 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Officials of Sandia National Laboratories, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology this week are establishing the Center for Energetic Materials and Energetic Devices (CEMED). News media are invited to an MOU signing ceremony on Thursday, Sept. 18, 9:30 a.m., in...

April 1, 2008 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A crisis is looming over water shortages worldwide. By 2025 more than half the nations in the world will face freshwater stress or shortages and by 2050 as much as 75 percent of the world’s population could face freshwater scarcity. So say Mike Hightower and Suzanne Pierce,...

August 2, 2005 • JEB FLEMMING, project lead for the ElectroNeedle platform, holds a test version of the device. The prickly parts are in the center of the package. A production version could be even smaller and simpler. (Photo by Randy Montoya) Albuquerque, N.M.— Two tiny devices recently developed by researchers at the National...

January 17, 2006 • Carl Hayden prepares to image dimer molecules very rapidly as they split and emit electrons.Download 150dpi JPEG image, "hayden.jpg" (Media are welcome to download/publish this image with related news stories.) ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Imagine you are standing, John Wayne style, on the backs of two runaway horses pulling a stagecoach. You...

March 6, 2006 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories and the City of Albuquerque are hosting the 3rd Annual Technology Showcase & Business Matchmaking Event June 6 at the Albuquerque Convention Center. The goal of the event is to present regional businesses with additional business opportunities. The Showcase is different from a typical...

August 8, 2006 • MAT CELINA displays the piezoelectric polymer films that will be tested on an upcoming Materials International Space Station Experiment. (Photo by Randy Montoya)Download 300dpi JPEG image, “mat-celina.jpg,” 996K (Media are welcome to download/publish this image with related news stories.) ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — For the past three years a Sandia research team headed...