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Artist's conception of water transition to warm dense matter
// S&T Highlights
Livermore researchers and partners have driven water to extreme temperatures to study its behavior at extreme conditions.
Supernova remnant pictured in false color
// S&T Highlights
Experiments at the National Ignition Facility are providing scientists with new insights into the turbulent after-effects of a supernova explosion.
Tanker truck on highway
// S&T Highlights
Work by Livermore researchers has helped predict how high-performance fuels perform in advanced internal combustion engines.
Laser peening a metal's surface
// S&T Highlights
Livermore innovations in lasers made laser peening, using intense laser light to improve the quality of a material, a commercialization success story.
Dog training for explosives detection
// S&T Highlights
Livermore has developed a new additive manufacturing process for materials used to train dogs for explosives detection.
Satellite image of desert landscape
// Press
The rocks in Oman remove planet-warming carbon dioxide from the air and turn it to stone. In theory, these rocks could store hundreds of years of human emissions of CO2.
The inside of the target chamber at the Omega Laser
// S&T Highlights
Iron-silicon alloys have been compressed to unprecedented pressures equal to the center of a three-Earth-mass extrasolar planet.
Illinois Industrial Carbon Capture and Storage (ICCS) project
// S&T Highlights
Livermore researchers have mapped out how CO2 might be captured from existing U.S. ethanol biorefineries and stored underground.
High-resolution simulation of earth
// S&T Highlights
A new earth modeling system has been unveiled with weather-scale resolution that uses advanced computers to simulate Earth’s variability.
image of nuclear plant
// S&T Highlights
For the first time, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has issued state-by-state energy and water flow charts in one location.