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Illustration of DART spacecraft and LICIACube near asteroid just before impact
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A new paper led by LLNL walks through a detailed “dress rehearsal” for interpretation of the DART asteroid mission's experiment’s data.
One particle composed of m any crystals highly magnified
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An international team has determined that one specific particle on the asteroid Ryugu can shed light on the unaltered initial materials from its parent body.
Screen capture of animation of spacecraft hitting a surface
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Livermore researchers contribute simulation expertise to NASA’s DART planetary-defense tech-demo mission.
Artistic collage of atomic structures, light beams, metallic spheres
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Magnesium at 10 million times atmospheric pressure adopts fundamentally new chemical and structural behavior.
Five people wearing bunny suits (3 at left) surround four square panels whoing rainbox colors.
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Livermore researchers and their collaborators have developed new high-energy pulse compression gratings that will be used in the world’s highest-power laser system.
Stylized image of a cryogenic target, spoon-like in shape
// Recognition
The Burning Plasma Team has been awarded the 2022 John Dawson Award for Excellence in Plasma Physics Research by the American Physical Society.
Photo of Alison Ruth Christopherson
// Recognition
Livermore scientist Alison Ruth Christopherson has earned the American Physical Society’s Marshall N. Rosenbluth Outstanding Doctoral Thesis award.
Artist's conception of exoplanet circling red dwarf star
// S&T Highlights
Researchers are exploring the opacity of hydrogen under the extreme pressures and relatively low temperatures found in the interior of red dwarfs.
Man wearing goggles holds metal base
// Recognition
Livermore scientists and engineers have garnered three awards among the top 100 industrial inventions worldwide.
Photo of microgram amount of curium compound, roughly spheircal in shape
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Researchers have developed a new method to isolate and study in great detail some of the rarest and most toxic elements on Earth.