Livermore scientists are working to mitigate the adverse effects on National Ignition Facility implosion performance of the gossamer-thin membranes known as “tents” that support the target capsule in the hohlraum.
Science and Technology Highlights
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New research provides a theoretical explanation for why self-organized fluid flows called zonal jets or “zonal flows” can be suppressed by the presence of a magnetic field.
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Lawrence Livermore and its partners are using microbes to convert carbon dioxide directly to renewable natural gas.
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Livermore scientists are collecting, archiving, and documenting climate data sets to support coordinated climate modeling activities.
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The Food and Drug Administration has approved the use of a medical device in humans partly developed at Livermore.
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For the first time, scientists from Lawrence Livermore and five other organizations have shown that human influences significantly impact the size of the seasonal cycle of temperature in the lowest layer of the atmosphere.
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A new study compares drug responses in the brains of rodents to drug responses of brain cells cultured in Livermore-developed “brain-on-a-chip” devices
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Livermore participates in an effort to observe extremely rare neutrinoless double-beta decay.
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