The Laboratory is taking part in NASA’s first-ever planetary defense test, which deliberately collides a spacecraft into an asteroid called Dimorphos.
Science and Technology Highlights

Rock weathering — the process of chemical transformation by long exposure to water and the atmosphere — boosts soil organic carbon storage by altering soil mineralogy.

A research team has dveloped a machine learning-based technique capable of automatically deriving a mathematical model for the motion of binary black holes from raw gravitational wave data.

Third in a series of articles describing aspects of the National Ignition Facility’s record-breaking 1.3-megajoule experiment.

Research shows that two-thirds of the increase in vapor pressure deficit, an indication of fire weather, in the western United States is due to human-caused climate change.

Second in a series of articles describing aspects of the National Ignition Facility’s record-breaking 1.3-megajoule experiment.

A Multi-institutional team of researchers found that late-migrating fish that spend a year in their home streams as juveniles leave in the fall and arrive in the ocean larger and more likely to survive their years at sea.

First in a series of articles describing aspects of the National Ignition Facility’s record-breaking 1.3-megajoule experiment.

Researchers are exploring the use of metal hydrides to reversibly release and uptake hydrogen under mild conditions.

Livermore scientists have created nanostrut-connected tube-in-tubes that enable stronger low-density structural materials.