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Scientists examine floor-standing equipment
// S&T Highlights
A team of Livermore scientists has developed an expanded nuclear fission chain theory and detectors.
Four scientist portraits
// Recognition
Four Livermore researchers have been named Distinguished Members of Technical Staff.
Barry Chen among racks of supercomputers
// S&T Highlights
Researchers are developing new deep learning and high-performance computing algorithms that can sift through massive amounts of data for evidence of nuclear proliferation activities.
Neural implant that can control the electrical activity of brain cells
// S&T Highlights
A research team has taken a major step forward in enabling “multicolor” optogenetic control of different neuron types.
A sample of microarchitectured graphene aerogel
// S&T Highlights
An LLNL–Virginia Tech team reported producing micro-architectured 3D graphene aerogel structures with higher resolution and complexity than anything created before with other 3D printing methods.
Image of Jupiter with water droplet
// Press
With gentle pulses from gigantic lasers, scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory transformed hydrogen into droplets of shiny liquid metal using the world’s largest and most energetic laser.
Image of Jupiter with water droplet
// S&T Highlights
A research team led by scientists at Lawrence Livermore describes optical measurements of the insulator-to-metal transition in fluid hydrogen.
Radiographs of the capsule perturbations
// S&T Highlights
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.
John Nasstrom at computer
// Recognition
LLNL's John Nasstrom received the NNSA Administrator’s Distinguished Service Gold Award.
High-altitude cloud formation surrounded by swirling patterns in the atmosphere of Jupiter's North North Temperate Belt region.
// S&T Highlights
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.