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Dog training for explosives detection
// S&T Highlights
Livermore has developed a new additive manufacturing process for materials used to train dogs for explosives detection.
Satellite image of desert landscape
// Press
The rocks in Oman remove planet-warming carbon dioxide from the air and turn it to stone. In theory, these rocks could store hundreds of years of human emissions of CO2.
The inside of the target chamber at the Omega Laser
// S&T Highlights
Iron-silicon alloys have been compressed to unprecedented pressures equal to the center of a three-Earth-mass extrasolar planet.
High-resolution simulation of earth
// S&T Highlights
A new earth modeling system has been unveiled with weather-scale resolution that uses advanced computers to simulate Earth’s variability.
Illinois Industrial Carbon Capture and Storage (ICCS) project
// S&T Highlights
Livermore researchers have mapped out how CO2 might be captured from existing U.S. ethanol biorefineries and stored underground.
image of nuclear plant
// S&T Highlights
For the first time, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has issued state-by-state energy and water flow charts in one location.
Inner structure of a planet
// S&T Highlights
A team of researchers has provided the first experimentally based mass-radius relationship for a hypothetical pure iron planet at super-Earth core conditions.
Cross section of a planet superimposed on NIF experimental chamber
// Journal Covers
A team of researchers has provided the first experimentally based mass-radius relationship for a hypothetical pure iron planet at super-Earth core conditions.
Scientist in forensics laboratory
// Press
Nations seek to better address future chemical-weapons threats.
Schematic of proton experiment at NIF
// S&T Highlights
An international team of researchers has created a powerful new source of protons at the National Ignition Facility.