Lynx, a new fine resolution, real time synthetic-aperture radar system designed to be mounted on both manned aircraft and unmanned aerial vehicles, was unveiled Aug. 28 by Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories and General Atomics, San Diego.
A Sandia researcher has created synthetic sludge, and possibly saved taxpayers millions of dollars.
A new remote sensor the size of a dime being developed by the Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories should allow users to rapidly detect dangerous gases from up to two miles away.
Quantum dots find each other repulsive, and in that new knowledge may lie the secret of forming the world's most effective solid-state lasers.
Technologies for artificial feet and knees are being jointly developed by the advanced technology of two nuclear weapons laboratories that were on opposite sides during the Cold War. A letter expressing a Russian landmine victim's "deepest gratitude" for a prosthetic foot demonstrates the need for the second front: knees.
The world's fastest encryption device, developed at the Sandia National Laboratories should soon be protecting data being transmitted from supercomputers, workstations, telephones and video terminals. It encrypts data at more than 6.7 billion bits per second, 10 times faster than any other known encryptor.
Illegal access and misuse of online medical or psychiatric data, whether in transit or stored, could lead to job turndowns, insurance refusals, blackmail, scandal and even death. Sandia researchers, interested in protecting Web-sent medical information during a natural disaster or terrorist-caused emergency, have devised a unique and inexpensive computer "architecture" to minimize hacking risks.
Researchers at the Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories have pushed the Z machine, the world's most powerful X-ray source, to new limits using it to test effects of radiation on materials in experiments designed to mimic the response that would occur near a hostile nuclear explosion.
Some 300 business leaders and public officials from New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, Texas and Utah will explore the potential of technology-driven industry clusters during the Conference on the Southwest as a Region of Innovation: Steps Toward the Next Generation Economy, June 17-18 at the Albuquerque Convention Center.
Bees dutifully going about their daily business -- gathering nectar and pollen and taking it back to the hive -- may one day help protect the lives and limbs of people, if a landmine-detection demonstration at Sandia National Laboratories is successful.
A discovery linking the shape of a unit called the heme in a protein to protein function may prove useful in a range of scientific advances, including finding cures for diseases and cleaning up pollutants, says the discoverer, a physicist at Sandia National Laboratories.
Sandia National Laboratories, five commercial ceramic manufacturers and Los Alamos National Laboratory are making ceramic history by taking the "art" out of ceramics production and replacing it with science, resulting in better products and lower production costs.
Minute acoustic wave chemical sensors being developed at the U.S. Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories will in the next two years be part of a hand-held chemical detection system, commonly called "chem lab on a chip," and other integrated microsensor systems.
Self-assembling nanospheres that fit inside each other like Russian dolls are one form of a broad range of nanospheres created in the past 12 months at Sandia National Laboratories. The unprecedented control, which has medical, industrial and military potential, is presented in this week's issue of the journal Nature.
So that police will not have to routinely evacuate an area and blow up stray packages, Sandia has developed a technique to determine if they contain bombs. A remotely controlled, motorized cart will roll an X-ray device to the scene.
Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have created a foam that begins neutralizing both chemical and biological agents in minutes. Because it is not harmful to people, it could be dispensed on the disaster scene immediately, even before casualties are evacuated.
Protein misfolding is a cause of Alzheimer's,"mad cow" disease, and could figure in biowarfare. Now the first successful computer model of one protein interfering with the folding of another has been created at Sandia. The model provides insights into the mechanisms by which incomplete folds occur.
An engineer at Sandia has developed a way to fabricate ceramics that requires no molds or machining. Called robocasting, it relies on robotics for computer-controlled deposition of ceramic slurries -- mixtures of ceramic powder, water, and chemical modifers
1- Nano-patterns to foster future structures; 2- architectural surety program aimed at terrorism and catastrophes; 3- micro-guardians safeguard nuclear weapons.
When disaster strikes, people evacuate, because structures that normally protect us -- buildings, bridges, dams, and tunnels -- are often the most dangerous places to be during catastrophes.Sandia Labs wants people to feel compelled to run into buildings rather than out of them during emergencies.
A panel of scientists and research program evaluators will address the national science policy issue, "How Will New Accountability Require-ments Affect the Environment for Research?" at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science on Jan23.
A team of researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's national laboratories in New Mexico traveled 6,500 miles recently to a remote Pacific island to better understand, in part, why the American Southwest is having such a warm, dry winter and why the Great Lakes states are getting so much snow.
Sandia researchers achieved a 10-year dream of the world's laboratories by confining light in an artifical crystal that seems fabricated of microscopic Lincoln logs. The silicon device is the smallest, most efficient and economical ever created for optical telecommunications.
Research underway at Sandia National Laboratories to improve lithium ion battery materials may result in smaller, longer-lasting batteries for applications as diverse as portable computers and electric vehicles.
Intel Corp. and the Department of Energy (DOE) announced Dec. 8 that Intel will provide a royalty-free license for its Pentium processor design to DOE's Sandia National Laboratories for the development of custom-made microprocessors for US space and defense purposes.
A data-sorting method based upon the human ability to visually group objects seen near each other, rather than on complex mathematical equations,has proven so successful that Sandia will use it in its hand- held sensors to defend battlefields, airports, and other vulnerable areas.
Sandia Labs and Compaq Computers together sorted information three times faster than previous record-- important to $15 billion data warehousing industry; better able to detect threats to on-line banking, communications; medical fraud.
The "world's smallest combination lock,: a minuscule mechanical device developed at Sandia National Laboratories, promises to build a virtually impenetrable computer firewall that even the best hacker can't beat.
An artificial "photonic crystal" created at Sandia has bent microwaves around 90-degree corners, within radii smaller than a wavelength, and with almost 100 percent efficiency in transmission, offering promise of cheaper, more effective communications.
A growing number of people in Mexico are using renewable energy technology to irrigate their land, light their houses, pump well water, and otherwise improve their lives, thanks to a Sandia National Laboratories cooperative program.
By interlocking slivers of silicon into a lattice that appears to be formed by microscopic Lincoln logs, Sandia scientists can bend light easily and cheaply without leaking it, no matter how many twists or turns are needed for optical communications or optical computers.
Drilling at the Long Valley Exploratory Well near Mammoth Lakes, Calif., may provide new clues about local volcanic hazards and the role of underground magma in the energy future of California. The drilling operations are being led by a team from Sandia National Laboratories.
Fewer failures in satellites used for everything from communications to surveillance may be the result of bipolar electronics reliability tests developed by Sandia National Laboratories, a Department of Energy national security research lab, and a consortium headed by the Defense Special Weapons Agency.
The bombings of the US embassies, and US attacks on terrorist targets are just the latest in disasters raising public awareness of the importance of architectural and infrastructure integrity. Scientists mimic seashell structure to make tough coatings; Inexpensive substrate keeps today's hot chips cooler.
The Cold War has been over for more than seven years,but most Americans continue to believe the U.S. remains at risk of nuclear conflict, and they support maintenance of a stockpile of nuclear weapons to ensure the safety of the country.
Within the next few years, your watch, television and computer may all contain microelectromechanical systems -- micron-sized machines being developed at Sandia.
Seashells have been valued for their beauty and utility for thousands of years. Now, in a Nature paper, Sandia researchers show they can mimic nature by permitting materials to self-assemble into hard, tough strong coatings with the laminated structure of seashells.
Researchers at Sandia have developed a substrate that removes heat from microchips and printed circuit boards, keeping closer to optimum operating temperatures. The Sandia approach uses an intricate network of microscopic, coolant-filled passages formed directly within the substrate.
Within th enext few years, your watch, television and computer may all contain microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), micron-size machines being developed at Sandia National Laboratories.
Sandia researchers are developing inexpensive sensors and pumps to make possible the home use of an inexpensive oxygen bath, carefully calibrated, for the large number of elderly, paraplegics, diabetics, and burn and trauma victims, who suffer pressure ulcers or sores.
Work at Sandia to determine the reliability of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) may mean that one day soon, most electronic devices will contain the micron-size machines. Their use may expand and change the electronics industry if they prove reliable.
A Sandia laboratory technician who dreamed of a bus-sized vehicle that would fix potholes as it drove over them now holds a patent on the idea.The automated system requires only a single driver instead of a crew, and is equipped with a global positioning system and cell phone so that really large hazards can be pinpointed in location, and called in.
As part of a Sandia National Laboratories-led effort to create a worldwide disease tracking network, hospital emergency rooms in three New Mexico cities and in a formerly secret Russian city this week began gathering and posting on the Internet information about an emerging disease, hepatitis C, that physicians say could have major world health implications.The primary goal of the international project, though, is to show how monitoring unusual outbreaks of disease can serve as a worldwide early-warning system for covert biological weapons development.
A device that inexpensively indicates when the temperature of a frozen food package has exceeded 32 degrees F --the temperature above which harmful bacteria multipy -- has been patented by Sandia National Laboratories. The warning remains even if the food is then refrozen.
Sandia research may make electricity derived from geothermal energy more economically feasible with new electronic instrument systems that can operate more than 100 degrees hotter than systems presently available.
A super-hard, protective diamond coating applied as thickly as desired-- something never before achieved -- and at room temperatures has been created by researchers at Sandia National Labs. The advance means improved protection and longer lifetimes for metal and plastic parts.
A device expected to be less expensive and more effective than any on the market in helping cool silicon wafers during the chip manufacturing process has been patented in prototype by researchers at Sandia National Laboratories.
Sandia has requested permission to prepare a conceptual design for an accelerator, X-1, expected to produce sufficient heat, energy and power to implode fusion capsules of deuterium and tritum to achieve high-yield fusion.
A manufacturable transistor operating under quantum mechanical laws is faster than any commecial transistor in use today. Developed at Sandia National Laboratories, the quantum transistor-jokingly called the Quantristador - has many possible uses.
A Sandia National Laboratories physicist and his Texas-based colleague have done calculations that may offer additional insight into a decade-old controversy about whether up to 30,000 house-sized snowballs, or icy comets, are striking Earth each day.
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