Science and Technology Highlights

Periodic table element hydrogen entry
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Using a real-world application for quantum mechanics, Laboratory researchers are finding ways to make hydrogen fuel tanks more efficient.
Red dye in water
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Livermore researchers are developing a simple, yet powerful, health assessment tool for use on the battlefield, in space, or in other isolated settings.
Hohlraum with laser beams entering at sides
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Livermore’s Inertial Confinement Fusion program brings unparalleled value to the nation.
Map of Sea surface temperature anomalies on Pacific Ocean
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New research shows that naturally occurring climate variations help to explain a long-standing difference between climate models and satellite observations of global warming.
Diagram of neural network with images of people
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Livermore scientists have developed a new framework and an accompanying visualization tool that leverages deep reinforcement learning for symbolic regression problems,
The greenland ice sheet
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Wthin the last 1.1 million years, Greenland had thriving vegetation and ecosystems.
The Paris-Edinburgh-type press with specialized thermoelectric cell assembly
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Researchers have shown how applying pressure to a specific thermoelectric material, TiNiSn, increases its efficiency and leads to a structural phase transition.
Four researchers head shots, with four x-ray images
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New work by computer scientists at Livermore and IBM Research on deep learning models to accurately diagnose diseases from x-ray images won the Best Paper award for Computer-Aided Diagnosis at the SPIE Medical Imaging Conference.
Experimental set-up with laser, microstructure, and data plot
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Livermore scientists have achieved a near 100 percent increase in the amount of antimatter created in the laboratory.
 "Permitting Carbon Capture & Storage Projects in California" report cover
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According to a Livermore report, California will need to both intensify efforts in emission reduction measures and technologies that are already underway and deploy technologies that dramatically reduce existing emissions.