Study reveals new structure of gold at extremes
When gold is compressed rapidly over nanoseconds, the increase in pressure and temperature changes the crystalline structure to a new phase of gold.
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Energetic laser helps test weapon survivability
Lawrence Livermore’s National Ignition Facility (NIF) has become a key tool for testing the survivability of nuclear weapon components.
Operation Argus
In 1958, the United States conducted a set of nuclear tests, codenamed ARGUS, to determine whether they could interfere with communications and weapons performance.
Presidential honors for four Laboratory researchers
Four scientists from Lawrence Livermore have been selected for the prestigious Presidential Early Career Award for Science and Engineers (PECASE).
New device’s 1.6 billion atmospheres assists quake, asteroid studies
A new super-fast high-pressure device allows scientists to simulate and study earthquakes and meteorite impacts more realistically in the lab.
Three Lawrence Livermore scientists named senior members of the Optical Society
Livermore scientists Félicie Albert, Eyal Feigenbaum and Bruce Warner have been named senior members of the Optical Society.
Dynamic compression provides new insight into understanding and predicting crystal growth
Research provides a new insight of crystal growth under dynamic compression.
ARC experiments exceed expectations
Advanced Radiographic Capability (ARC) short-pulse laser have produced protons with energies about 10 times higher than previous experience would have predicted.
On the threshold of a critical milestone
Scientists at the National Ignition Facility successively produced record numbers of fusion neutrons.
Giant lasers crystallize water with shockwaves, revealing the atomic structure of superionic ice
Livermore scientists used giant lasers to flash-freeze water into its exotic superionic phase and record X-ray diffraction patterns to identify its atomic structure for the very first time