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Earth
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Livermore and University of Washington scientists conclude that it is too early to rule out severe global climate change.
Supercomputer simulations of dormant white dwarf
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Remnant cores of burned-out stars could be the key to finding the most elusive class of black holes.
The Sierra supercomputer
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Sierra, one of the world’s fastest supercomputers has been officially unveiled.
Silver nanocrystal superlattice
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A Livermore-led team studies the nanocrystal assembly process in silver.
Three scientists in cancer resarch lab
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For the first time, researchers have developed a way to determine how many cancer cells it takes to initiate a tumor in another part of the body.
LLNL's two 2018 Optical Society of America Fellows
// Recognition
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers Tayyab Suratwala and Jay Dawson have been named fellows by The Optical Society of America.
Four LLNL 2018 American Physical Society Fellows
// Recognition
Four Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientists have been selected as 2018 fellows of the American Physical Society.
Artist's conception of liquid water under extreme compression
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A team of theorists from Livermore has solved a long-standing puzzle in the nucleation of a high-pressure phase of ice known as ice VII.
Donna Strickland
// Recognition
The Nobel Prize-winning research by Donna Strickland, a former LLNL staff scientist as instrumental in the Laboratory’s development of a series of groundbreaking short-pulse, high-energy laser systems.
Video window for National Ignition Facility
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Take a peek inside the National Ignition Facility, the world’s largest and most energetic laser, to see how we develop and execute some of the most complex experiments conducted anywhere.