A Livermore team has taken a closer look at how nuclear weapon blasts close to the Earth’s surface create complications in their effects and apparent yields.
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Two scientists from Livermore are recipients of the 2021 Department of Energy’s Office of Science Early Career Research Program award.
Livermore began investigating controlled thermonuclear reactions and fusion early in its history
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The Livermore-led VisIt visualization and analysis tool has supported scalable, high-quality evaluation of simulation results for over 20 years.
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With a number of Department of Energy incentives and funding streams, Lawrence Livermore’s research commercialization efforts are changing the world and paving the way for technology’s next big thing.
New research shows that satellite measurements of the temperature of the troposphere may have underestimated global warming over the last 40 years.
Laboratory researchers have produced and refined the lowest-density gold foam aerogel ever made—a significant breakthrough in nanoscale materials engineering.