New Research Finds Lead Toughens Up Under Extreme Conditions

In a new paper published as an “Editors’ Suggestion” in Physical Review Letters, a team of researchers from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has demonstrated that lead – a metal so soft that it is difficult to machine at ambient...
11-Nov-2019 12:00 PM EST Add to Favorites

Lawrence Livermore Researchers Capture Four Awards for Top Industrial Inventions

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers have garnered four awards among the top 100 industrial inventions worldwide.
7-Nov-2019 6:05 AM EST Add to Favorites

Budil to be honored for outstanding achievements

In recognition of outstanding achievements in both academia and public service, Kim Budil, leader of the weapon program at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), will be honored by her alma mater Nov. 22 with the Distinguished Engineering...
5-Nov-2019 6:05 AM EST Add to Favorites

LLNL leads multi-institutional team in modeling protein interactions tied to cancer

Computational scientists, biophysicists and statisticians from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) are leading a massive multi-institutional collaboration that has developed a machine...
31-Oct-2019 6:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

National Institutes of Health Establishes Center at Lawrence Livermore to Develop Chlamydia Vaccine

A cooperative research center that aims to develop vaccines for chlamydia has been established by the National Institutes of Health at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). The center includes two University of California campuses –...
24-Oct-2019 6:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Nuclear Impulse Could Deflect Massive Asteroid

Researchers have completed the first-ever, in-depth investigation into how an asteroid would respond to a nuclear deflection attempt, finding that a nuclear device would be able to deflect an asteroid too massive for other approaches. The paper was...
23-Oct-2019 6:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Volcanic Ash Sparks a New Discovery

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientists are now using plasma physics to predict the characteristics of volcanic hazardous ash plumes.
21-Oct-2019 1:55 PM EDT Add to Favorites

LLNL Team Reports Breakthrough in Ultrafast, High-Resolution Nanoscale 3D Printing

In the latest issue of Science, a team of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers describe a breakthrough in nanoscale 3D printing, developing a scalable method of nanofabrication up to 1,000 times faster than any previous method has...
2-Oct-2019 2:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

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