Science and Technology Highlights

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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.
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With a number of Department of Energy incentives and funding streams, Lawrence Livermore’s research commercialization efforts are changing the world and paving the way for technology’s next big thing.
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.
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Laboratory researchers have produced and refined the lowest-density gold foam aerogel ever made—a significant breakthrough in nanoscale materials engineering.
Satellite image of atmospheric river over Pacific Ocean
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New research shows that satellite measurements of the temperature of the troposphere may have underestimated global warming over the last 40 years.
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From studying radioactive isotope effects to better understanding cancer metastasis, the Laboratory’s relationship with cancer research endures some 60 years after it began.
Illustration of 4 microorganisms and a root
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Researchers study protist–plant relationships to understand the role of protists in the rhizosphere.
Marine stratocumulus clouds along the California and Baja California coastlines, as revealed by a NASA satellite
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Global warming causes low-level clouds over the oceans to decrease, leading to further warming.
Two scientists examine thin-film electrode
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Thin-film electrodes developed at Lawrence Livermore have been used in human patients at the University of California, San Francisco, generating never-before-seen recordings of brain activity in the hippocampus.
Chemical compund formulae and scale of solubility
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A new study suggests a microbial pathway to removing uranium from groundwater.