Livermore physicist Natalie Hell has been awarded the 2020 Dissertation Prize from the Laboratory Astrophysics Division of the American Astronomical Society.
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Sixty years ago in 1960, at Hughes Aircraft Company in Malibu, California, Thomas Maiman fired his solid-state ruby laser, emitting humankind’s first coherent visible light.
A special issue of the journal Propellants, Explosives, Pyrotechnics highlights multiscale modeling and experiments, an area of energetic materials science and technology in which LLNL researchers play a leading role.
A team of Livermore computer scientists and mathematicians placed first overall in Challenge 1 of the Department of Energy’s Grid Optimization Competition.
Researchers have observed the shock melting and refreezing of a metal (zirconium) at the picosecond scale.
Describes a method to determine local deuterium–tritium (DT) fuel density in an inertial confinement fusion implosion using neutron imaging of the core.
Tropical glaciers in Africa and South America began their retreat simultaneously at the end of the last ice age about 20,000 years ago.
The spoken word, music, earthquakes, vibrating equipment: the physics of mechanical waves, including sound, govern what we hear, their use in technology, and their effect during such events as earthquakes.
Scientists have tracked down a potential target for new drugs against sleeping sickness.
Understanding waves is fundamental—through them we see, communicate, transmit energy, probe the universe. Experimenting with harmonic oscillators, such as a mass on a spring, is a great way to understand how waves work.