Science and Technology
in the News
Science and Technology
in the News
News Center
The Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration, and the Laboratory announced the signing of contracts with Cray Inc. to build the NNSA’s first exascale supercomputer, “El Capitan.”
Nuclear physicist Maria Gatu Johnson was named winner of the American Physical Society's Katherine E. Weimer Award.
Two scientists from Lawrence Livermore are recipients of the Department of Energy’s Office of Science Early Career Research Program award.
Atmospheric scientist Stephen Klein has been selected as a fellow of the American Meteorological Society.
When gold is compressed rapidly over nanoseconds, the increase in pressure and temperature changes the crystalline structure to a new phase of gold.
Livermore has opened the new OS-150 Robotics Laboratory, an outdoor, 8,000 square-foot enclosure.
LLNL’s Jeff Wisoff and Tammy Jernigan, two former astronauts, reminisce about what they were doing 50 years ago during the history-making Apollo 11 moon landing.
In 1958, the United States conducted a set of nuclear tests, codenamed ARGUS, to determine whether they could interfere with communications and weapons performance.
Full-scale experiments have been conducted on the National Ignition Facility for a decade thanks to its dedicated staff.