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Mar 8 | News
Though comets are thought to be some of the oldest, most primitive bodies in the solar system, new research on comet Wild 2 (including this TEM image of its material) indicates that inner solar system material was transported to the comet-forming region at least 1.7 million years after the formation of the oldest solar system solids.
Feb 19 | News
Aerodynamic drag can sap more than 50% of the energy produced by diesel-powered semi-truck’s engine and rolling resistance can claim about 30% more. To relieve some of inefficiencies—and ease our reliance on this fuel—Livermore Lab is using NASA Ames’ wind tunnel to design a whole new type of truck.
Feb 4 | News
By analyzing sediments up to 4,000 years old, Susan Zimmerman, a scientist from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry, is hoping to provide a tool to help predict future climate change.
Feb 1 | News
Relying on technologies that have won several R&D 100 Awards, Lawrence Livermore Lab’s National Ignition Facility to see if 192 laser beams designed to focus on a single point last fall could be operated without energy-sapping beam scattering. This shows NIF can achieve highly symmetrical target compression necessary for ignition tests later this year.
12/22/2009 | Featured Articles
To say that the outlook for government R&D laboratory executives is brighter for 2010 than 2009 would be a great understatement. At this time last year most laboratories were scrambling to adjust to a short-term financial upheaval brought about by an across-the-board freeze on budgets until March 2009.
12/14/2009 | RDBlog
I never really thought about what it would be like to not see well or not at all. The closest I have ever been to blind was while finding my way through the touch tunnel at New Jersey’s Liberty Science Center, which, quite frankly, freaked me out. In fact, upon being given the question of choice, in a game of “Would You Rather”, between losing my hearing or my sight, I chose hearing hands down because any aesthetic pleasure would be taken away from me without being able to see.
11/24/2009 | News
By producing some of the highest resolution images of peptides attaching to mineral surfaces, scientists have a deeper understanding how biomolecules manipulate the growth crystals. This research may lead to a new treatment for kidney stones using biomolecules.
11/9/2009 | News
In findings announced recently at an American Physical
Society meeting Atlanta,
officials from Lawrence Livermore National Lab say the National Ignition Facility
has enough x-ray power from its multi-laser beam assembly to heat the fuel
targets sufficiently to drive implosion. This ability will soon allow
scientists to begin evaluating assumptions made from current computer models
regarding nuclear fusion.
10/28/2009 | News
A team from Los Alamos National Laboratory is using an adapted version of VPIC, a particle-in-cell plasma physics code, on Roadrunner to model the nonlinear physics of laser backscatter energy transfer and plasma instabilities to assist colleagues at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory as they attempt to reach fusion ignition at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) next year.
10/13/2009 | News
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has received $3
million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act dollars to capture and
transport 1 million tons of carbon dioxide from Bay Area power plants and
inject it more than two miles underground. The gas will be captured at its
source and funneled via pipeline to the Central Valley.