A new National Ignition Facility Discovery Science campaign is designed to simulate the type of photoionized plasma found in accretion disks and the surrounding stellar wind.
Science and Technology Highlights
To transform the way energy is collected, stored, and used, the Office of Basic Energy Sciences (BES) awarded Livermore and collaborators three energy-focused projects.
Spiral phase mirrors, when incorporated into a laser system, will enable scientists to “twist” the laser light and generate an optical vortex.
A five-year microbial study of the International Space Station and its astronauts by Lawrence Livermore and NASA researchers has found that the ISS habitat is safe for its residents.
Livermore scientists are scaling up the production of vertically aligned single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNT) that could revolutionize a diverse set of commercial products.
Livermore researchers are using the third generation of early access machines to port codes over to the future exascale system El Capitan.
Livermore scientists have devised a method to fabricate all-solid-state lithium metal batteries.
Livermore scientists develop a copper–titanium catalyst to mitigate use of precious metals.
Members of Livermore’s DART spacecraft discuss being present at mission control during he world’s first planetary defense technology demonstration.
John Clauser, an experimental physicist who spent a decade at Livermore, has been awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics, along with French scientist Alain Aspect and Austrian scientist Anton Zeilinger.