Natural gas and renewable energy consumption reached record levels in the U.S. in 2024, while overall energy use increased modestly, according to the latest U.S. energy flow chart released by LLNL.
Science and Technology Highlights
LLNL is poised to learn much more about the gut and its pivotal role, thanks to a breakthrough by a team of researchers who replicated the gut in three dimensions, with all its spectacular architecture and activity, on a fluidic chip the size of a microscope slide.
Scientists and engineers at LLNL have developed a camera-based inspection system that can monitor complex 3D-printed structures layer by layer, using AI and machine learning (ML) to measure tiny variations and potentially identify problems before a part ever leaves the printer.
In a recent study, published in Advanced Energy Materials, researchers at LLNL used large-scale molecular dynamics simulations accelerated by machine learning, combined with data-driven analysis, to tackle this challenge.
A team of scientists at LLNL partnered with Rocket Lab and the U.S. Space Force (USSF) Space Systems Command (SSC) to deliver an optical payload for the VICTUS HAZE tactically responsive space (TacRS) mission under the Space Safari program office.
A team of LLNL scientists and engineers pushed the limits of unmanned aerial systems to earn a place at the DARPA Lift Challenge, hosted by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
In a new study, published in Physical Review Letters, researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and the Ion Storage Group at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, Colorado, created a robust process for entangling trapped-ion qubits.
Through a Strategic Partnership Project with micronuclear reactor startup AMPERA, LLNL engineers are applying a novel metallic-particle manufacturing capability toward producing this robust nuclear fuel.
In a new experimental campaign called Magnetometry for Neutrino physics (Magneto-ν), scientists at LLNL are searching for the sterile neutrino using nuclear beta decays of plutonium-241.
Researchers at LLNL have found that implosions designed for inertial fusion energy (IFE) can tolerate significant imperfections before performance abruptly declines, a finding that could inform the design of fuel targets for future fusion power plants.