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Engineer assembles a prototype target for NIF
// S&T Highlights
Lawrence Livermore's Target Fabrication Team builds tiny targets that illuminate big questions at the National Ignition Facility.
Photomultiplier tubes on antineutrino detector
// S&T Highlights
Lawrence Livermore will lead a new international multi-laboratory and university collaboration for nonproliferation research.
Boulby Mine, home to the Watchman experiment
// Press

What are nations like North Korea and Iran really doing at nuclear reactors that are out of sight?

Someday, wispy subatomic particles known as antineutrinos could provide a clear view of what countries with illicit nuclear weapons programs are trying to hide.

Image of dirty graphene
// S&T Highlights
Scientific images by Livermore researchers are on view at the Bankhead Theater's art gallery through the end of April.
Artist's impression of combustion engine and molecular diagrams
// S&T Highlights
Laboratory scientists are developing models of high performance fuels to see how they would perform in advanced internal combustion engines.
Scientist working with quantum computing device
// S&T Highlights
Lawrence Livermore scientists are testing a quantum computing device.
Comparizon of asteroid size with buildings
// S&T Highlights
Livermore scientists scientists are part of a national planetary defense team that designed a conceptual spacecraft to deflect Earth-bound asteroids.
Research process image
// S&T Highlights
Lawrence Livermore scientists have received funding improve the energy efficiency of copper-based catalysts to convert carbon dioxide into methane and other valuable hydrocarbon products.
Video screen capture of National Ignition Facility
// S&T Highlights
This video describes the work of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's National Ignition Facility.
Two researchers in front of logo
// Recognition
Two researchers affiliated with Lawrence Livermore, a current employee and a retiree, have been named fellows of the international Combustion Institute (link is external) (CI).