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Sandia National Laboratories has joined the effort to rid the planet of what some people have called its worst form of pollution -- land mines. Sandiaís work in land-mine detection and demining ranges from chemical sensing and backscattered x-ray technologies, to laying down quick-hardening foam to clear a path for military vehicles and developing robotic vehicles that can be used as platforms to support the technologies.

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1- Conceiving and creating manufactured goods in a day, 2- a microtransmission as small as a grain of sand, 3- a 75-million-year-old dinosaur's call recreated, and 4- removing landmines-- the left-behind scourge of past wars.

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A microtransmission about the size of a grain of sand, developed at Sandia National Laboratories, can increase the power of its micro- engine (also the size of a grain of sand) 3 million times, and theoretically move an object weighing one pound.

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Did the large plant-eating Parasaurolophus dinosaur bellow, screech, roar or honk? Find out at 10 a.m. Dec. 5 when Sandia National Laboratories and the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science ìunveilî the sound the dinosaur made 70 million years ago.

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A coating that detects Sarin, nuclear weapons scientists design an artifical foot, and a detector that makes evidence blink is all part of research at Sandia Natonal Laboroyaries.

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Sandia scientist arranges for Russian nuclear weapons scientists to learn peacetime trade as testers and developers of artificial feet for vicitms of landmine,accident, and disease. The foot, patented at Tufts University, is licensed to an Ohio company for production.

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A missile or spaceship, spinning like a football or Olympic diver as it reenters Earth's atmosphere, can be stabilized simply by moving weights within the vehicle. The technique, like balancing an out-of-round tire, may work for satellites too.

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New tool used on six producing U.S. oil wells reveals stresses along sucker rod strings used to extract crude from approximately 80 percent of domestic wells. CR-ROM available free to members of petroleum industry.

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An evidence-detection system that makes organic residues appear to blink will allow investigators to locate potential evidence such as fingerprints, semen and urine more quickly and in a lighted room if necessary.

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A very thin coating developed at Sandia National Laboratories improves sensor sensitivity 500 times in detecting the lethal gas Sarin,improves more usual environmental monitoring, helps separate molecules in oil refining and drug manufacturing -- and barely increases the size of the sensor.

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Some airline passengers visiting the main security checkpoint at the Albuquerque International Airport this week are being asked to try out tomorrowís technology for combating terrorism ó an ìexplosives-detection portalî under development at Sandia National Laboratories for the Federal Aviation Adminstration (FAA). The ìportalî is intended to help prevent airliner hijackings and bombings by identifying passengers and airport visitors and employees who have recently been working with any of a wide variety of explosive chemicals.

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The realization that atomic gas clusters could serve as part of a sort of ìlight bulbî that emits extreme ultraviolet (EUV) light when laser-heated has inspired a recently patented invention at Sandia National Laboratories. This light source enables research development of EUV lithography to pattern faster, more memory-dense microchips.

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A revolutionary handheld laser device that in a few moments can detect and then track disorders of the blood has been patented in prototype by scientists at Sandia National Laboratories and the National Institutes of Health. The scanner, which makes blood samples part of the laser generation process, immediately detects sickle-cell anemia as well as nanometer-scale changes in cell structure like those imposed by the AIDS virus.

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Remarkable results lay groundwork to achieve sustainable fusion reactions, and provide data to test US defenses without physically exploding large-scale nuclear devices.

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Disabling sophisticated bombs without getting hurt is what a small team of researchers at Sandia National Laboratories knows how to do best. Now Sandia is sharing its technology and expertise in the occult art of bomb disablement with members of the worldís most elite bomb squads during an eight-day, hands-on training conference in Albuquerque Aug. 11-18.

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Eight Sandia winners of R&D 100 awards proposed devices -- newly or nearly in use -- in fields ranging from medicine to computers, and from manufacturing to resource exploration to the prevention of widespread power failures.

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Goodyear and the U.S. Department of Energyís Sandia National Laboratories will work together to develop new and more efficient manufacturing processes.

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A biochemical technique being refined at Sandia National Laboratories may soon enable sensors that can in seconds detect the equivalent of one contaminant particle among a billion other molecules in waste streams.

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Sandia National Laboratories has organized a novel project to monitor a newly recognized, emerging disease known as Hepatitis C in cooperation with the Russian Nuclear Center at Chelyabinsk-70, the New Mexico Department of Health, the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, and Los Alamos National Laboratory.

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Like a video played in reverse, nuclear weapons are streaming back to their place of origin at the Pantex plant in Amarillo, Texas, there to be dismantled by very very sensitive robots designed and assembled at Sandia National Laboratories.

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News tips from Sandia: 1- Patching old (but still flying) commercial jet fuselages, 2- supercomputer simulations of a comet striking Earth with disastrous effects, 3- a chip that relies on protons rather than electons to store information when the power unexpectedly goes off; and more.

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A patch developed at Sandia National Laboratories to prolong the lives of airplane fuselages passed muster with the Federal Aviation Adminis- tration, which inspected and returned a patched plane to service.

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A kilometer-sized comet that plummeted into one of Earth's oceans would impact with 10 times the explosive power of all the nuclear wepons on Earth causing water to completely cover low-lying areas like the state of Florida, according to a new simulation on the world's faster supercomputer at Sandia National Laboratories

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Forty engineers from Sandia National Laboratories are directing security activities in laboratories and power plants of the former Soviet Union to protect nuclear materials that have interested terrorists, thieves and extortionists.

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A retiree who scavenged a radiation-proof door has cheapened the price for the U.S. to visualize world peace.

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One of the minor horrors of the computer age is to be working on a document not yet saved to the hard drive ìmemoryî and lose everything because of a power outage or a screen freeze-up that forces the operator to shut down the computer. Now scientists at Sandia National Laboratories and France Telecom have applied for a patent on a prototype memory-retention device that is inexpensive, low-powered, and simple to fabricate. The device, referred to as ìprotonic,î is reported in todayís issue of the journal Nature.

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Four automotive researchers from Sandia National Laboratories have received special recognition from Vice President Al Gore for their work in connection with a multi-player initiative aimed at developing a new generation of fuel-efficient, low-emission vehicles.

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One-paragraph summaries of science news at Sandia National Laboratories, including an instrument sent to collect Artic weather data, the resurrection of order in a local high school, a virtual reality game for cops against hostage-takers, and a new use for Sandia's Prosperity Games.

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Modern movie superheroes rescue hostages by evading hailstorms of bullets and harming only evil-doers who resist. In the flesh-and-blood world, people who sign on to be cops -- whether city, state or FBI -- need extensive training to make the split-second judgments that would protect themselves, rescue the innocent, and disarm or disable hostage-takers. To widen access to such training, lessen its cost yet broaden its focus, a virtual reality simulation that allows two-person law enforcement teams to grip guns, don virtual reality glasses, and burst into the harsh environment of hostage-takers and their victims has been created in prototype by researchers at Sandia National Laboratories.

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A pilot school security program between Sandia and Belen High School (N.M.) is being credited for an impressive decline in the number of incidents that typically distress school administrators and students alike -- violence, theft, and drug and alcohol use. In a recent letter sent to President Clinton, Belen

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Sandia scientist Dr. Charles 'Jack' Jakowatz has been selected to receive a 1996 Ernest O. Lawrence Award, one of the Department of Energy's top prizes, for achievements that advance the use of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) to detect exceptionally small changes in landscape.

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The National Institute of Justice announced this week that it has signed an agreement with Sandia National Laboratories to research and develop security technologies. In the past 20 years, Sandia has developed state-of-the- art physical security technologies-- design, and implementation of detection, entry control, delay, and response technologies-- as well as explosives detection and bomb disablement.

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New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, which collects statuary, has teamed with scientists from Sandia National Laboratories, concerned with preserving the nation's security, to produce an inorganic coating that increases by a factor of ten the longevity of powdered calcite -- the basic component of limestone -- when calcite is submerged in a solution similar to mildly acid rain.

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The first international conference on computational molecular biology will be held at the Eldorado Hotel in Santa Fe, N.M., from January 20-23, 1997. Among the expected 200 participants are Nobel laureate Rich Roberts and Turing Award winner Richard Karp. If that werenít enough reknown, "Interestingly, some of the scientists involved in this conference are so famous in their fields that they were tapped to testify at the O. J. Simpson criminal trial," said Sorin Istrail, a Sandia National Laboratories scientist and one of the conference organizers.