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Image of the moon with craters
// Distance Learning

Collisions are all around us. Analyzing them can help us understand such phenomena as the flight of a golf ball when it’s hit by a club, or the behavior of the particles that form matter.

Two test dummies crashing into air bags
// Distance Learning

Objects move and halt when forces are applied. Mass, velocity, and time define the physical quantities of impulse and momentum. Understanding them is crucial to designing safer products like cars, shoes, sports equipment.

Cover of study
// S&T Highlights
Livermore scientists have identified a robust suite of technologies to help California clear the last hurdle and become carbon neutral – and ultimately carbon negative – by 2045.
Artist's conception of 3D printed electrodes
// S&T Highlights
Scientists have developed a new class of aerogel electrodes with a simultaneous boost in energy and power density.
Simulation of Rayleigh-Taylor hydrodynamic instability
// S&T Highlights
Scientists at the National Ignition Facility have reached a better understanding of the causes of plasma instabilities.
Lab on a Chip journal cover
// Journal Covers
A research team has developed a thin-film, 3D flexible microelectrode array (3DMEA) that non-invasively interrogates a 3D culture of neurons and can accommodate 256 channels of recording or stimulation.
Members of the nuclear clean-up crew at work near Thule Air Base, 1968.
// A Look Back

On Jan. 21, 1968, an aircraft accident involving a United States Air Force B-52 bomber occurred near Thule Air Base in the Danish territory of Greenland.

Nanocarbon condensate
// S&T Highlights
An LLNL team has proven that nanocarbon can be synthesized by applying strong shocks to an organic material.
F35 fighter jet with rotation chart
// Distance Learning

How something moves through space depends on its mass, shape, velocity, and other factors. Analyzing the flight of a jet or orbit of a satellite requires understanding its moment of inertia.

Stars in the constellation Carina
// S&T Highlights
Micrometer-sized silicon carbide stardust grains extracted from the Murchison meteorite formed anywhere from 1.5 million to 3 billion years before the formation of our solar system.