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Radio and optical data from a galaxy
// S&T Highlights
An international research team explores the origin energetic radio relics in merging galaxy clusters.
Schematic of HAPLS laser
// S&T Highlights
The High-Repetition-Rate Advanced Petawatt Laser System (HAPLS) is a major advancement over current petawatt lasers.
Advanced Materials journal cover
// Journal Covers
A Livermore team devised guidelines to modify reflectivity across the solar spectrum, and optimize antireflective properties, by selecting appropriate features of hierarchical structures.
Engineer Destiny Goddu with Assemblywoman Catherine Baker
// Recognition
Assemblywoman Catherine Baker has recognized Lawrence Livermore engineer Destiny Goddu as the 16th Assembly District’s Veteran of the Year.
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B journal cover
// Journal Covers
A Livermore team shows that a novel type of biomimetic channel-carbon nanotube porins (CNTPs)-is also laterally mobile in supported lipid membranes, mimicking biological protein behavior.
Physicist Félicie Albert
// Recognition
Livermore physicist Félicie Albert received the 2017 Katherine E. Weimer Award by the American Physical Society, Division of Plasma Physics.
Physicist Craig Siders
// Recognition
Physicist Craig Siders has been named a senior member of the Optical Society of America.
Advanced Optical Materials journal cover
// Journal Covers
A Livermore team reports on the fabrication of amorphous photonic structures using pigmentary ferric oxide/silicon dioxide core–shell nanoparticles.
New York Times image of nuclear explosion
// Press
For the first time, footage is available in an online archive after some of about 10,000 nuclear testing films were restored, scrutinized and declassified in a project by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. By Christine Hauser/The New York Times
Nature Astronomy cover
// Journal Covers
An international team of researchers report the discovery of a direct connection between a radio relic and a radio galaxy in the merging galaxy cluster Abell 3411–3412.