Next week policy-makers, academicians, industry representatives, and other experts representing the world's nonproliferation and nuclear power communities will gather near Washington, D.C., to discuss ways to reduce the proliferation risks of civilian nuclear fuels.
A lightning-fast laser technique has provided laboratory demonstrations of accurate, real-time, high-throughput identification of liver tumor cells at their earliest stages, and without invasive chemical reagents.
Anticipating attacks from terrorists, and hardening potential targets against them, is a wearying and expensive business that could be made simpler through a broader view of the opponents' origins, fears, and ultimate objectives, according to studies by the Advanced Concepts Group.
Sunlight splitting water molecules to produce hydrogen using devices too small to be seen in a standard microscope. That's a goal of a research team from the National Nuclear Security Administration's Sandia National Laboratories.
Just as astronomers want to understand the atmospheres of planets and moons, so engineers want atmospheric knowledge of worlds they create that are the size of pinheads, their "skies" capped by tiny glass bubbles.
Geothermal researchers have developed sensors that can be placed in hotter and higher-pressure underground environments than previous instruments, a capability that is allowing geologists worldwide to make more precise measurements of subterranean conditions before and after large earthquakes occur.
On a South Texas highway local police and border agents are using a hand-held sniffer developed at Sandia National Laboratories to help stem the flow of illegal drugs northward into the U.S.
Seven New Mexico research institutions will join together this week to sign the Inter-Institutional Agreement, a contract that allows bundling of patents for economic development.
A just-released study at Sandia confirms Explosive Destruction System's effectiveness against biological agents, bio-contaminated containers, and improvised biological devices.
A new online database created to highlight opportunities to license Sandia National Laboratories' intellectual property is now available to the general public.
Sending weak beams of light through inexpensive glass tubes that resemble soda straws, Sandia National Laboratories researcher Jonathan Weiss - dubbed by some the "light wizard" - can inexpensively solve problems ranging from the migration of waste through a landfill to detecting when an automobile battery soon will be too weak to start a car.
General Motors Corp. and Sandia National Laboratories have launched a partnership to design and test an advanced method for storing hydrogen based on metal hydrides.
An eclectic group of artists and scientists that organizers have dubbed the "dream team" of imaging and visualization are gathered at New York University this week to begin to create a photographic system capable of capturing and displaying a gigapixel - one billion pixels - of visual information in a single image.
Over the next few weeks researchers at the National Nuclear Security Administration's Sandia National Laboratories will begin testing innovative ways to treat arsenic-contaminated water.
By inserting a pretty, two-inch-long crystal that reflects at only a single frequency into the hellish center of Sandia's Z machine as it fires, researchers have been able to visually filter out the bedlam of more than 99 percent of the energies generated.
The National Nuclear Security Administration's Sandia National Laboratories is joining forces with Stirling Energy Systems, Inc. of Phoenix to build and test six new solar dish-engine systems for electricity generation that will provide enough grid-ready solar electricity to power more than 40 homes.
Sandia National Laboratories' Z machine, which last year emitted neutrons to enter the race to provide the world virtually unlimited electricity from, essentially, seawater, has received approval from the National Nuclear Security Administration to proceed with a $61.7 million refurbishment.
A new class of very small handheld devices can detect motion a thousand times more subtly than any tool known.
Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories are helping the U.S. Navy create the next generation of aircraft carriers by reviewing and analyzing current Carrier Air Wing flight operations, maintenance, and support functions.
A method that uses roughly only one-hundredth the fresh water customarily needed to grow forage for livestock may leave much more water available for human consumption, as well as for residential and industrial uses.
A radar, originally developed for military surveillance and reconnaissance applications, is helping a volunteer search and rescue group save lives.
A method that creates smooth and strong interfaces between metals and metal oxides without high-temperature brazing has been patented by researchers at the National Nuclear Security Administration's Sandia National Laboratories, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and the University of North Texas.
Red Storm will be faster, yet smaller and less expensive, than previous supercomputers, say researchers where the machine will be assembled.
Research in the areas of desalination and removal of arsenic in water will step up at the National Nuclear Security Administration's Sandia National Laboratories over the next few years, the result of a $6 million allocation in the FY2004 federal Energy and Water Development Appropriations bill.
A wireless nanodevice that functions like a fluorescent light - but potentially far more efficiently - has been developed in a joint project between the National Nuclear Security Administration's Los Alamos and Sandia national laboratories.
A new type of polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) is being developed by researchers to help bring the goal of a micro fuel cell closer to realization using diverse fuels like glucose, methanol, and hydrogen.
Researchers describe a simple, commercially feasible method for self-assembling nanocrystals into robust orderly arrangements -- like soup cans on a shelf or bricks in a wall, each separated from the next by an insulating layer of silicon dioxide -- or stopping nanocrystals from clumping.
Researchers have developed a new "inchworm" actuator instrument that provides detailed information about friction at the microscale.
Using a unique laser-based, soot heating technique, a team led by researchers at the Combustion Research Facility has demonstrated the ability to measure "real world" particulate emissions from a vehicle under actual driving conditions.
New construction is under way on a $110 million, five-year program to revitalize the Laboratories' large-scale test capabilities.
A device to help eliminate friendly fire during military combat has been created by engineers.
A cooperative effort is under way between the Arab Science and Technology Foundation (ASTF) and Sandia National Laboratories' Cooperative Monitoring Center to help rebuild key elements of Iraq's scientific infrastructure.
Within a year Sandia National Laboratories will be flying the smallest synthetic aperture radar ever to be used for reconnaissance on near-model-airplane-sized unmanned aerial vehicles and eventually on precision-guided weapons and space applications.
Small radioactive sealed sources have moved from the beneficial category to the threatening category in the post 9/11 world. Sandia National Laboratories is working to get a better handle on where these sources are located and how they can be controlled.
Researchers have shown that chemical formulations previously developed at Sandia to decontaminate chemical and biological warfare agents are likely effective at killing the virus that causes Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS).
Researchers from the Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories and the University of New Mexico have developed a new way of mimicking photosynthetic proteins to manipulate platinum at the nanoscale. The method has the potential of changing the metal's properties and benefiting emerging technologies.
Soon your desktop computer could warn you when you're talking too much at a meeting, if scientists at Sandia National Laboratories' Advanced Concepts Group have their way. Or it could alert others in your group to be attentive when you have something important to say.
Using a method usually more suitable to billiards than atomic physics, researchers have created extremely cold molecules that could be used as the first step in creating Bose-Einstein molecular condensates.
Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories developing ultraviolet (UV) light-emitting diodes (LEDs) recently demonstrated two deep UV semiconductor optical devices that set records for wavelength/power output.
Sandia National Laboratories is offering the nation's outstanding new Ph.D.s in science and engineering an opportunity to conduct independent research of their own choosing within a national security context through a new prestigious postdoctoral research fellowship.
Researchers are assisting with NASA's HyTEx (Hypersonic Technology Experiment) program to create new mature technologies that will benefit next-generation launch vehicles, a follow-on to the current shuttle.
Addressing the need to provide information to the public on an important national security capability, Sandia National Laboratories has launched an external web site devoted to its Chemical/Biological Defense ("Chem/Bio") program.
Researchers at the Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories have developed a new lightweight material to withstand ultra-high temperatures on hypersonic vehicles, such as the space shuttle.
Pursuing commercialization of technologies spawned by its highly successful µChemLab(tm) project, Sandia National Laboratories is actively soliciting industry partners to license, manufacture, and sell a unique suite of microfluidic connection products.
A unique laser operating in the nanometer range has demonstrated the first-ever technique for studying the reactions of such ultrasmall biological organelles in their functioning state. It can obtain clear signals from individual mitochondria in vitro.
Sandia National Laboratories today announced at the Intel Developer Forum it will demonstrate an Intel-based next-generation, High Performance Computing (HPC) cluster, the first such cluster to utilize PCI Express visualization systems.
Sandia researchers are developing complex nanomaterials that look strikingly similar to the microstructures of diatoms and seashells.
Over the past five years a team led by cognitive psychologist Chris Forsythe has been developing cognitive machines that accurately infer user intent, remember experiences with users and allow users to call upon simulated experts to help them analyze situations and make decisions.
A microdevice whose business end looks like the gold-coated spine of a very tiny mouse has been demonstrated to easily collect and release proteins in aqueous solution in less than a second.
In a different approach to creating white light several researchers at the Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories have developed the first solid-state white light-emitting device using quantum dots.
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