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Scientists examine floor-standing equipment
// S&T Highlights
A team of Livermore scientists has developed an expanded nuclear fission chain theory and detectors.
Four scientist portraits
// Recognition
Four Livermore researchers have been named Distinguished Members of Technical Staff.
Barry Chen among racks of supercomputers
// S&T Highlights
Researchers are developing new deep learning and high-performance computing algorithms that can sift through massive amounts of data for evidence of nuclear proliferation activities.
Neural implant that can control the electrical activity of brain cells
// S&T Highlights
A research team has taken a major step forward in enabling “multicolor” optogenetic control of different neuron types.
Image of Jupiter with water droplet
// Press
With gentle pulses from gigantic lasers, scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory transformed hydrogen into droplets of shiny liquid metal using the world’s largest and most energetic laser.
A sample of microarchitectured graphene aerogel
// S&T Highlights
An LLNL–Virginia Tech team reported producing micro-architectured 3D graphene aerogel structures with higher resolution and complexity than anything created before with other 3D printing methods.
Image of Jupiter with water droplet
// S&T Highlights
A research team led by scientists at Lawrence Livermore describes optical measurements of the insulator-to-metal transition in fluid hydrogen.
Radiographs of the capsule perturbations
// S&T Highlights
Livermore scientists are working to mitigate the adverse effects on National Ignition Facility implosion performance of the gossamer-thin membranes known as “tents” that support the target capsule in the hohlraum.
John Nasstrom at computer
// Recognition
LLNL's John Nasstrom received the NNSA Administrator’s Distinguished Service Gold Award.
High-altitude cloud formation surrounded by swirling patterns in the atmosphere of Jupiter's North North Temperate Belt region.
// S&T Highlights
New research provides a theoretical explanation for why self-organized fluid flows called zonal jets or “zonal flows” can be suppressed by the presence of a magnetic field.