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Students walking into building at Las Positas College
// S&T Highlights
Now in its 11th year, the Lawrence Livermore–Las Positas College Science and Engineering Seminar Series provides Livermore scientists and engineers a forum to share their research with students, faculty, and the Tri-Valley community.
Craig Tarver
// Recognition
Craig Tarver has been honored with the American Physical Society’s 2021 George E. Duvall Shock Compression Science Award.
Two students work on the dense plasma focus instrument
// S&T Highlights
A technology once rejected for fusion power plants now supports a promising new flash neutron imaging capability.
Molecular dynamics simulation of nucleation in undercooled copper
// S&T Highlights
Livermore researchers report on a new mechanism of solidification in copper that alters the fundamental understanding of nucleation at high pressure.
Physicist Mathias Frank conducting experiment with a test chamber.
// S&T Highlights
Livermore scientists are leveraging their extensive experience studying the movement of airborne hazards to better understand the movement of virus-like particles through the air.
"Getting to Neutral" report cover
// S&T Highlights
One year after publishing the groundbreaking "Getting to Neutral: Options for Negative Carbon Emissions in California," Lawrence Livermore has become a trusted adviser in the discussion of how to remove carbon dioxide from the air.
Schematic of explosives imaging experiment
// S&T Highlights
New research is shedding light on the deflagration-to-detonation transition” process to make explosives safer for handling, storage and transportation.
Flow chart diagram of  “Learn-by-Calibrating” method
// S&T Highlights
Livermore computer scientists have developed a new deep learning approach to designing emulators for scientific processes that is more accurate and efficient than existing methods.
Artist's conception of Earth's interior
// S&T Highlights
Researchers have taken important steps to show that thermal conduction is important and measurable at high pressure and temperature conditions.
Workers lower a package containing chemical explosives into a borehole
// S&T Highlights
The Source Physics Experiment (SPE) is helping to discriminate among the seismic fingerprints of a small, illicit nuclear explosion, an earthquake, a mine disaster, or any of the other noises that a variety of human activities and natural phenomena generate.