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AAAS Symposium Asks, "Will New Accountability Requirements Hinder Scientific Advance?"

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Meeting Announcement

ANAHEIM, Calif. -- A panel of scientists and research program evaluators will address the national science policy issue, "How Will New Accountability Requirements Affect the Environment for Research?" at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science on Saturday morning, January 23.

Meeting: AAAS 1999 Annual Meeting

Weather On Tiny Pacific Island May Hold Clues To Global Climate Change

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — 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. The scientists took with them an atmospheric measurement station built and tested at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque.

Funder: US Department of Energy

Sandia Photonic Crystal Confines Optical Light: 'Very Important Work,' Says Physics Nobel Iaureate

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Sandia researchers achieved a 10-year dream of the world's laboratories by confining light in an artifical crystal that appears to be fabricated of microscopic Lincoln logs. The silicon device is the smallest, most efficient and economical ever created for optical telecommunications.

Journal: Optics Letters
Funder: US Department of Energy; Sandia Laboratory-Directed Research and Development Office

Sandia Research May Bring Smaller, Longer-Life Lithium Batteries Into Our Lives

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Research underway at Sandia National Laboratories to improve lithium battery materials may result in smaller, longer- lasting batteries for applications as diverse as portable computers and electric vehicles.

Simple Method May Save Lives By Reliably Sorting Data

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A data-sorting method based upon the human ability to visually group objects seen near each other, rather than upon 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.

Journal: Accounts of Chemical Research
Funder: US Department of Energy

Intel Provides Royalty-Free License to US Government: Sandia Labs to Develop Radiation-Hardened Pentium® Processor for Space & Defense Needs

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Intel Corp. and the Department of Energy (DOE) announce 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. The agreement saves US taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars in microprocessor design costs and provides the federal government with a 10-fold increase in processing power over the highest performing existing technology.

Sandia, Compaq Smash World Record In Large Database Sorting

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A government lab -- interested in better defense simulations and in providing tools to identify patterns of medical fraud as well as threats to on-line banking and communications systems -- teams with the largest maker of personal computers, Compaq -- interested in $15 billion data market -- to assemble an off-the-shelf computer called Kudzu that sorts information three times faster than the previous record (held by a supercomputer) at 2/3 the cost.

Funder: U.S. Dept. of Energy; Compaq Computers

"World's Smallest Combination Lock" Promises To Foil The Best Computer Hacker,Say Sandia Developers

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — 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.

Funder: DOE

Program Encourages Use Of Renewable Energies In Mexico

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

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.

Funder: US Agency for International Development; Dept. of Energy

Sandia-Developed Tests Ensure Satellite Electronics Endure Long-Term Radiation Exposure

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

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.

Funder: Defense Special Weapons Agency