Science and Technology Highlights

Collage of images of four high-energy density research facilities
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A recent paper examines the various experimental techniques and key findings of material states under extreme high energy density (HED) conditions based on work conducted at Livermore and other facilities around the world.
The Z line VISAR final optics assembly
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Livermore and Sandia national laboratories continue their longstanding collaboration on high-energy-density research.
Silhouettes of two first responders against orange sky and buildings
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Meta and targeted genomic analysis and machine learning predict wound healing outcomes and lay the groundwork to potentially save lives.
Viruses with superimposed images of people in labs
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To help the United States fight the COVID-19 pandemic, Lawrence Livermore did what it does best: quickly bring together interdisciplinary teams and diverse technologies to address urgent national challenges.
Chemical formulae and structures
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A research team has created machine learning models that can predict molecules’ crystalline properties from their chemical structures alone, such as molecular density.
Nuclear weapon blast simulation
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A Livermore team has taken a closer look at how nuclear weapon blasts close to the Earth’s surface create complications in their effects and apparent yields.
Equipment in the Jupiter laser
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Researchers describe how a laser-plasma system can be tuned to produce large and measurable changes in the group velocity of light.
Lab equipment with laser
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Researchers have developed a light-activated switch that, if fully deployed, could reduce carbon emissions by more than 10 percent.
Title words and mujlticolored globular visualization
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The Livermore-led VisIt visualization and analysis tool has supported scalable, high-quality evaluation of simulation results for over 20 years.
Picture of Saturn
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Scientists have revealed experimental evidence that helium rain is possible over a range of pressure and temperature conditions expected to occur inside Jupiter and Saturn.