Science and Technology Highlights

Three scientists looking at Movie Mode Dynamic Transmission Electron Microscope
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A multi-institutional research team has successfully obtained the first nanoscale video of copper deforming under extremely high strain rates.
Scientist holds chip-based platform
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Lawrence Livermore researchers are one step closer to recapitulating the brain’s response to both biochemical and mechanical cues in a chip-based platform.
Close-up of mosquito
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A research team has found that outbreaks of human disease, such as the 2015 Zika virus epidemic, may be due to genetic mutation, and viruses may undergo further changes as they expand their geographic range.
STAR (Sample Test and Recovery) array and space ship
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The STAR (Sample Test and Recovery) array was developed to measure shock velocity and heating in up to 16 material samples irradiated with x rays.
Artist's conception of the dust and gas surrounding a newly formed planetary system.
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Livermore scientists and a collaborator reviewed recent work that shows how meteorites exhibit a fundamental isotopic dichotomy between non-carbonaceous and carbonaceous groups,
Two images of the fungus Fusarium
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Livermore scientists have helped discover that RNA viruses are abundant and diverse in soil, where they prey upon organisms such as insects, nematodes and fungi.
Microbe capsules
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To help increase the U.S. supply of rare earth elements, researchers are using microbe beads to recover rare earth elements from consumer electronic waste.
Schematic diagram of "Frustraum"
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An angular hohlraum named “Frustraum” could become a key to the next stages of ICF research at the National Ignition Facility.
National Ignition Facility target chamber
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A research team has demonstrated that lead — a metal so soft that it is difficult to machine at ambient conditions — responds similarly to other much stronger metals when rapidly compressed at high pressure.
Artist's conception of Earth's interior
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Researchers have discovered that at thermodynamic conditions mimicking that of Earth’s core, argon can react with nickel, forming a stable argon-nickel (ArNi) compound.