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Metal nozzles and laser beams
// S&T Highlights
Researchers studied the melting behavior of tantalum at multi-megabar pressures on the nanosecond timescale.
New York Police Department station
// S&T Highlights
A retrospective LLNL's response to 9/11, this article describes the development of the Biological Aerosol Sentry and Information System.
Mark Zelinka
// Recognition
The American Meteorological Society has selected atmospheric scientist Mark Zelinka to receive the Henry G. Houghton Award.
Image of Mars (left) and artist's conception (right)
// S&T Highlights
A United Arab Emirates Mars mission uses Livermore-made optics in the spectrometer used to image the surface.
The Bipolar Reset Experiment
// S&T Highlights
Livermore scientists are working on a new diagnostic capability that will provide, for the first time, the ability to make x-ray radiographic movies.
Interior of NIF chamber with text "1.3 MJ"
// S&T Highlights
On Aug. 8, 2021, an experiment at Lawrence Livermore’s National Ignition Facility made a significant step toward ignition, achieving a yield of more than 1.3 megajoules.
Black and white images of mushroom clouds and simulated clouds
// S&T Highlights
Livermore scientists are improving our understanding of nuclear cloud rise using a widely adopted and strongly validated weather modeling tool.
Cover text and abstract multicolored design of world map
// Journal Covers
Five Livermore scientists contributed to this report.
Book cover with multi-colored abstract image
// Journal Covers
Livermore scientists contributed two chapters to this book, one on capacitive deionization (CDI), and one on transport in carbon nanotube pores.
IPCC report coer
// S&T Highlights
Scientists are observing changes in the Earth’s climate in every region and across the whole climate system, according to the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Report.