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// Journal Covers
α-Glycine is studied up to 50 GPa using synchrotron angle-dispersive X-ray powder diffraction (XRD), Raman spectroscopy, and quantum chemistry calculations performed at multiples levels of theory.
Scientists examie power distribution grid simulation
// S&T Highlights
A Livermore team has taken a key step toward creating a commercial tool that utilities could use to modernize the grid.
Lake Tahoe in winter
// S&T Highlights
The Sierra snowpack will decline in years to come because of climate change effects.
Lasers beaming into a gold rugby hohlraum holding an aluminum fuel capsule
// S&T Highlights
Experiments using a hohlraum shaped like a rugby ball have significantly boosted the amount of laser-induced energy absorbed by an inertial confinement fusion fuel capsule.
A dwarf galaxy
// S&T Highlights
Lawrence Livermore nuclear scientists for the first time have accurately predicted the properties of polarized thermonuclear fusion.
Harold Brown (right) and Edward Teller
// A Look Back
Physicist, former Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Director Harold Brown left an indelible mark
The element zirconium
// S&T Highlights
New research reveals that the radioactive isotope zirconium-88 is an excellent neutron absorber.
Simulation of a fusion reactor
// S&T Highlights
LLNL's Center for Applied Scientific Computing collaborates with its fusion researchers.
Book cover
// Journal Covers
This book introduces a quantum-mechanical description of the nuclear fission process from an initial compound state to scission.
Logo of She Roars podcast series
// Press
Deputy Director for Science and Technology Pat Falcone discusses her career, and women in science and technology in this Princeton University podcast.