22-Oct-2003 Sandia's Truman Fellowship program seeks nation's top postdoc talent DOE/Sandia National Laboratories Grant and Award Announcement 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.
22-Oct-2003 Sandia uses hypersonic vehicle design, development, flight experience to assist NASA's HyTEx program DOE/Sandia National Laboratories Business Announcement Sandia National Laboratories 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.
17-Oct-2003 Sandia launches Chem/Bio Program web site DOE/Sandia National Laboratories 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.
15-Oct-2003 Sandia develops ultra-high-temperature ceramics to withstand 2000 degrees Celsius DOE/Sandia National Laboratories Peer-Reviewed Publication 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.
23-Sep-2003 Sandia nanolaser may help extend life-spans by rapidly analyzing possible neuroprotectant drugs DOE/Sandia National Laboratories Peer-Reviewed Publication A unique laser operating in the nanometer range has demonstrated the first-ever technique for studying the reactions of ultrasmall biological organelles in their functioning state. It has shown it can obtain clear signals from individual mitochondria in vitro.
23-Sep-2003 Sandia researchers design unique microfluidic capillary fittings, manifolds and interconnects DOE/Sandia National Laboratories Peer-Reviewed Publication 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.
17-Sep-2003 Sandia demonstrates next generation high performance computing cluster DOE/Sandia National Laboratories Peer-Reviewed Publication 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. Meeting Intel Development Forum
10-Sep-2003 Los Alamos team develops rapid procedure for radioactivity identification in dirty bomb debris DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory Peer-Reviewed Publication One nightmare scenario: A terrorist dirty bomb is detonated in a major metropolitan area. Everyone's first question is "Who did it?". Meeting American Chemical Society 226th National Meeting
27-Aug-2003 At Los Alamos, airborne sensor technology assists emergency responders DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory Peer-Reviewed Publication Scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory and emergency first-responders from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency have developed airborne infrared sensor technology that can aid emergency crews by detecting and mapping hazardous and toxic chemical plumes unleashed by disaster or terrorist acts.
18-Aug-2003 Sandia researchers create nanocrystals nature's way DOE/Sandia National Laboratories Peer-Reviewed Publication Sandia researchers are developing complex nanomaterials that look strikingly similar to the microstructures of diatoms and seashells.