Science and Technology Highlights

Artist's depiction of an ion-water cluster traveling at high speed through a carbon nanotube channel
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Scientists at LLNL and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have found that a noted f

Rendering of an electrode that converts nitrogen (NO3) from agricultural runoff into ammonia (Cl)
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A new study led by the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and researchers from LLNL demonstrates an approach for the integrated capture and conversion of nitrate-contaminated waters into valuable ammonia within a single electrochemical cell.

mages from a 2D Spheral simulation showing the fragmentation of the Chelyabinsk bolide
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Scientists from the LLNL Planetary Defense program have released details of their research of the 2013 Chelyabinsk meteor.

The experimental platform using copper plates and a copper coil to create magnetic reconnection
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A series of experiments conducted at the Omega Laser, part of the University of Rochester’s Laboratory for Laser Energetics, provide new insights into magnetic reconnection.

Rendering of new National Academies book cover and report
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A 170-page book featuring LLNL was recently published by the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine, titled “Strategies to Renew Federal Facilities.”

LLNL employees participate in a fireside chat
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Celebrating International Women’s Day on March 8, data scientists, Lab employees, and other attendees gathered at the Livermore Valley Open Campus for the annual Livermore Women in Data Science (WiDS) regional event held in conjunction with the global WiDS

Illustration of NASA’s DART spacecraft and the Italian Space Agency’s (ASI) LICIACube prior to impact at the Didymos binary system. Image courtesy of NASA/Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory/Steve Gribben.
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The first peer-reviewed results from NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission were published Wednesday by Nature, including contributions from LLNL’s planetary defense team.
Lab 70th anniversary lattice printed by Gabe Guss
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LLNL engineers and scientists have developed a method for detecting and predicting strut defects in 3D-printed metal lattice structures during a print through a combination of monitoring, imaging techniques and multi-physics simulations.
image of a black hole
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A new review of the current breakthroughs in the creation of electron-positron pair plasma, its main challenges and the future of the field, co-authored authored by LLNL physicist Hui Chen appears in Physics of Plasmas
Front covers of the journals Nature Chemistry and Inorganic Chemistry
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A new approach developed at LLNL allows for the study of radioactive and/or precious elements in a much more efficient way, requiring 1,000 times less materials than previous state-of-the-art methods, without compromising the data quality.