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.
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Spiral phase mirrors, when incorporated into a laser system, will enable scientists to “twist” the laser light and generate an optical vortex.
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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.
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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.
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Livermore scientists are scaling up the production of vertically aligned single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNT) that could revolutionize a diverse set of commercial products.
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Livermore researchers are using the third generation of early access machines to port codes over to the future exascale system El Capitan.
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Livermore scientists have devised a method to fabricate all-solid-state lithium metal batteries.
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Members of Livermore’s DART spacecraft discuss being present at mission control during he world’s first planetary defense technology demonstration.
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Livermore scientists develop a copper–titanium catalyst to mitigate use of precious metals.
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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.