Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories "” exceeding the predictions of a 100-year-old law of physics "” have shown that filaments fabricated of tungsten lattices emit remarkably more energy than solid tungsten filaments in certain bands of near-infrared wavelengths when heated.
If approved by the Food and Drug Administration for in vivo testing, a scaffoldlike structure -- a layered mesh stronger than bone, yet porous -- would substitute for a portion of the mandible, or lower jaw, until healthy, newly grown bone and blood vessels could weave their way through it like vines through a garden lattice. A patent for the implant is pending.
Throwing its hat into the ring of machines that offer the possibility of achieving controlled nuclear fusion, Sandia National Laboratories' Z machine has created a hot dense plasma that produces thermonuclear neutrons.
Researchers at the Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories in California are working with San Francisco International Airport to test operational capabilities and new detection systems that will protect against chemical or biological terrorist threats.
Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have developed a new class of composite anode materials composed of silicon and graphite that may double the energy storage capacities currently possessed by graphite anodes.
A half-ounce 'sniffer' intended to ride on small aerial drones to detect possible gas attacks on cities and military bases has been created by researchers at Sandia National Laboratories in partnership with Lockheed Martin Corporation.
Interactive remote-visualization hardware that allows doctors to view and manipulate images based on very large data sets as though standing in the same room has been developed at Sandia National Laboratories.
Laptops make laps hot, as users of mobile lightweight computers sometimes learn dramatically.
Recent experiments by Sandia National Laboratories researchers are using a new Labs-built reactor to provide benchmarks showing that spent nuclear fuel - uranium that has been used as fuel at a nuclear power plant - is considerably less reactive than the original fresh fuel.
A disposable plastic bag resembling the common kitchen garbage bag, its interior fed by a simple oxygen canister monitored by inexpensive, deceptively simple plastic instruments, has been licensed by the federal government as a tool to heal the sick and the wounded in the nation's military.
Sandia National Laboratories is expanding its work in biotechnology - combining traditional inorganic sciences with biology - to push scientific discovery and development into such areas as the creation of new materials and to help in America's war on terrorism.
C. Jeffrey Brinker will be one of seven scientists awarded the Department of Energy's E.O. Lawrence award in a ceremony on Oct. 28 in Washington, D.C.
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.
Imagine the unimaginable: terrorists have released a biological agent throughout the San Francisco Bay Area that threatens local residents. Key decision-makers and government entities - including public health officials, law enforcement, emergency management personnel, elected officials, and media - must quickly decide how to respond. The speed and effectiveness with which they do so may mean life or death for dozens - or thousands - of citizens.
A compound that could potentially immobilize the AIDS virus or selectively extract radionuclides from nuclear wastes at various U.S. high-level storage sites has been developed by a researcher at Sandia National Laboratories who wasn't even looking for it.
Sandia and Los Alamos national laboratories will jointly receive $75.8 million for the design and construction of buildings to house the practical yet visionary Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT).
A way to help next-generation computers boot up instantly, making entire memories immediately available for use, has been developed by researchers at Sandia National Laboratories and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
A lit light bulb will burn a hand. Now a microscopic lattice has potential to transmute the majority of heat wasted by a tungsten filament into the frequencies of visible light, thus helping reduce the world's most serious energy problem.
A high-tech cushion designed to relieve the lower back pains of office workers, motorists and truck drivers -- as well as quadriplegics and other people immobilized by reason of occupation or health -- is under development at Sandia National Laboratories.
Networked sensors to detect the movement of hostile forces and materials -- and longer-term approaches for changing the environment in which terrorism breeds, as well as monitoring borders, materials, and agents -- are being developed at Sandia National Laboratories.
The Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories has launched a new website that will offer comprehensive information on semiconductor light emitting diodes (LEDs) - solid-state lighting.
A revolution is quietly occurring that promises to change the way we light our homes, offices, and world. Sandia National Laboratories is among the research entities around the country at the forefront of the revolution.
A software toolkit developed by the Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories can help answer on best design or design safety and assist engineers in designing anything from components to sophisticated systems.
Next month some 275 ambassadors, policy-makers, academicians, and other experts representing the United Nations, NATO, and 35 countries will gather in Albuquerque to discuss evolving US-Russia nuclear postures, nuclear proliferation fears, how the the US ballistic missile defense regime has matured, much of the world uniting against terrorism, and other topics at the 12th Annual International Arms Control Conference, April 18-20.
A cheaper, less dangerous way to stun kidnappers or terrorists holding hostages has been developed by Sandia National Laboratories.
Some deadly things don't deserve 15 minutes of FAME, let alone several hours. A prototype handheld detector under development at Sandia National Laboratories can identify the fatty acid methyl esters (FAME) of anthrax in less than five minutes.
Sandia National Laboratories, a Department of Energy lab, announced that the shoe bombs Richard Reid allegedly tried to detonate on board a trans-Atlantic flight from Paris to Miami were surgically disabled by bomb specialists using an advanced bomb squad tool originally developed at Sandia.
Explosives experts at Sandia National Laboratories, working with a Colorado company, have come up with the LET gun residue detection kit that will help police officers at a crime scene quickly narrow the list of suspects in a shooting to those who have recently fired a gun.
Sandia National Laboratories has awarded a worldwide licensing agreement to NeoSafety, a workplace risk solutions company, to market the RAMPART method and software and co-develop a suite of complementary products. RAMPART is a screening-level software program developed by Sandia researchers to determine the risk to a building by natural hazards, crime and terrorism.
International technical and commercial experts will emphasize the latest developments of the use of electricity storage in the power industry at the Conference on Electrical Energy Storage Applications and Technologies, April 15-17 in San Francisco, Calif., sponsored by Sandia National Laboratories, the DOE, and the Electricity Storage Association.
Most consumers couldn't imagine how the management of nuclear stockpiles could bring them better tires faster, but a unique partnership between Goodyear and the Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories is doing just that.
More than 200 school administrators, security professionals, law enforcement officials, and researchers from throughout the country gather in Arlington, Va., for a three-day workshop in school safety and security.
Security experts at Sandia National Laboratories are helping shore up anti-terrorism defenses at the nation's chemical plants. Sandia physical security experts have developed a systematic, risk-based assessment process called a vulnerability assessment methodology that could be used to evaluate and improve security at more than 10,000 facilities in the U.S. that manufacture, store, or use hazardous chemicals.
To help prevent farm-to-fork systems failure, researchers at Sandia National Laboratories are working with several agricultural universities and agencies to search for ways to apply Labs-developed technology to agricultural and food-safety issues.
A microchain that closely resembles a bicycle chain -- except that each link could rest comfortably atop a human hair -- has been fabricated at the Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories.
Key detail leads to new interpretation of water-solid interactions.
Operators of U.S. dams, hydroelectric facilities, and power transmission systems can make their sites less attractive targets to terrorists using new step-by-step security assessment processes developed by IFIP, a team of government dam owners, transmission system operators, and anti-terrorism experts.
Just as a movie theater's "coming attractions" help viewers choose movies they may want to see, preview images - computer -generated - of possible micromachines help designers choose the device they want fully fabricated.
Federal authorities are using a decontamination formulation developed at the National Nuclear Security Administration's Sandia National Laboratories to help rid Capitol Hill buildings of anthrax this week.
Just as a movie theater's "coming attractions" helps viewers chose movies they may want to see, preview images "computer-generated " of possible micromachines help designers choose the device they want fully fabricated, in new fields where designs fight for dominance.
New approach to epoxy adhesive relies on reversible chemistry. A Sandia National Laboratories research team has developed a removable epoxy adhesive that makes bonding and detaching parts a matter of temperature change.
A Sandia National Laboratories researcher has some answers about how water distribution systems in this country can remain secure.
A real-time gas- and water-quality monitoring system that consists of a miniature sensor array packaged in a weatherproof housing developed by the Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories may become one tool in the effort to protect the nation's water supply.
To create high-yield nuclear fusion that will ultimately produce cheap electric power from sea water, researchers must be able to evenly compress a BB-sized pellet so that its atoms are forced to fuse.
Coffee beans spilled upon a table form no pattern, they're a mess, their distribution dictated by the laws of chance. The same was generally believed true of atoms deposited upon a substrate. Now, the first vision of a peaceable kingdom in which deposited atoms form orderly, controllable 2-D nanopatterns has been observed by researchers at the Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories.
Silicon microteeth that open and close like jaws have been developed at Sandia National Laboratories. The microjaws fit in a microchannel about one-third the width of a human hair (about 20 microns wide). When the jaws close, they trap a red blood cell -- one of many being pumped through the microchannel like tomatoes spilled from a basket.
RAMPART, software developed by Sandia National Laboratories that is the first risk-based approach to building management, may soon help the General Services Administration assess the risks of terrorism, natural disasters and crime to the nearly 8,000 federal buildings it manages nationwide.
Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have unveiled a wheeled police robot that makes many of the "how to" decisions on its own, freeing up its operator to make the more critical "what to do next" decisions during potentially dangerous bomb-disablement or other law enforcement missions.
A 10-foot-high, 13-foot-wide screen that makes high-definition television look as grainy as an old TV in a cheap motel has been unveiled by Sandia National Laboratories.
A computer program that enables a collection of off-the-shelf desktop computers to rank among the world's fastest supercomputers has been released to the public by Sandia National Laboratories.
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