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.
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 werenÃt 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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 todayÃs issue of the journal Nature.
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.
A retiree who scavenged a radiation-proof door has cheapened the price for the U.S. to visualize world peace.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Goodyear and the U.S. Department of EnergyÃs Sandia National Laboratories will work together to develop new and more efficient manufacturing processes.
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.
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 worldÃs most elite bomb squads during an eight-day, hands-on training conference in Albuquerque Aug. 11-18.
Remarkable results lay groundwork to achieve sustainable fusion reactions, and provide data to test US defenses without physically exploding large-scale nuclear devices.
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.
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.
Some airline passengers visiting the main security checkpoint at the Albuquerque International Airport this week are being asked to try out tomorrowÃs 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Sandia National Laboratories has joined the effort to rid the planet of what some people have called its worst form of pollution -- land mines. SandiaÃs 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.
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.
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 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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 the next few years, your watch, television and computer may all contain microelectromechanical systems -- micron-sized machines being developed at Sandia.
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