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The Bipolar Reset Experiment
// S&T Highlights
Livermore scientists are working on a new diagnostic capability that will provide, for the first time, the ability to make x-ray radiographic movies.
Interior of NIF chamber with text "1.3 MJ"
// S&T Highlights
On Aug. 8, 2021, an experiment at Lawrence Livermore’s National Ignition Facility made a significant step toward ignition, achieving a yield of more than 1.3 megajoules.
Black and white images of mushroom clouds and simulated clouds
// S&T Highlights
Livermore scientists are improving our understanding of nuclear cloud rise using a widely adopted and strongly validated weather modeling tool.
Book cover with multi-colored abstract image
// Journal Covers
Livermore scientists contributed two chapters to this book, one on capacitive deionization (CDI), and one on transport in carbon nanotube pores.
Cover text and abstract multicolored design of world map
// Journal Covers
Five Livermore scientists contributed to this report.
One man sitting in experimental automobile frame, another standing next to it
// A Look Back
In 1980, LLNL researchers worked on a powered roadway for electric vehicles that they hoped would change the face of the nation’s transportation system.
IPCC report coer
// S&T Highlights
Scientists are observing changes in the Earth’s climate in every region and across the whole climate system, according to the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Report.
Scientists looking at computer screens
// S&T Highlights
LLNL Forensic Science Center scientists earned an “A” grade in the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons’ (OPCW) recent biomedical proficiency test.
Tammy Ma
// Recognition
The Fusion Power Associates Board of Directors has selected Livermore experimental physicist Tammy Ma as the recipient of its 2021 Excellence in Fusion Engineering Award.
Artist's rendering of molecules flowing through three electrodes
// S&T Highlights
To take advantage of the growing abundance and cheaper costs of renewable energy, Livermore scientists and engineers are 3D printing flow-through electrodes.