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LLNL community raises nearly $15,000 for West Coast wildfire relief

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) employees raised $14,976 to support communities affected by wildfires across California, Oregon and Washington through the West Coast Wildfire Relief ...
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Discover the telescope redefining small-satellite optics in the Big Ideas Lab podcast

The Big Ideas Lab podcast takes a deep dive on the CODA telescope, developed jointly by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Corning Incorporated. Listen to the episode now available on Apple ...
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Hot stuff: A new thermal pathway for a high explosive

Left to right: Keith Morrison, Jason Moore, Keo Springer, Keith Coffee and Batikan Koroglu stand in front of the cryo-focused pyrolysis GC-MS (gas chromatography mass spectrometer). The team used this ...
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Scientists design conceptual asteroid deflector and evaluate it against massive potential threat

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientists are part of a national planetary defense team that designed a conceptual spacecraft to deflect Earth-bound asteroids and evaluated whether it ...
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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory achieves fusion ignition

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and DOE’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) today (Dec. 13) announced the achievement of fusion ignition at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ...
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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Operated by the Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC for the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration Learn about the Department of Energy's Vulnerability Disclosure ...
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Holographic plasma lenses for ultra-high-power lasers

Colorized illustration from a simulation of a holographic plasma lens. The red concentric circles denote alternating high- and low-density plasma rings. The blue dot at the center represents the ...
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Volcanic eruptions trigger ice formation in clouds

When a volcano erupts, it can spew ash high into the atmosphere — injecting aerosols right where clouds typically form. How exactly these aerosols impact cloud formation has long been a mystery to ...
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Come on in, the water is superionic

LLNL scientists have developed a new approach using machine learning to study with unprecedented resolution the phase behaviors of superionic water found in ice giants Uranus and Neptune. Opens in a ...
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Despite heavy storms and rough seas, Laboratory team captures missile flight data

"Everything was very successful, but this was the toughest mission we’ve ever supported." That was the assessment of Steve Yakuma, LLNL’s ICBM flight test director, when asked to sum up his team’s ...
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LLNL’s Matt Lyman receives Fulbright Scholarship in Brazil

Matt Lyman, a staff scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in the Biosciences and Biotechnology Division, has been selected for a Fulbright U.S. Scholar award in Brazil in ...
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Lawrence Livermore National Security now accepting applications for 2026 Community Gift Program

Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (LLNS), the contractor for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), is now accepting applications for its 2026 Community Gift Program. Established in ...