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Lab wins six DOE commercialization grants

For two years running, Lab researchers have exceeded expectations for capturing Department of Energy (DOE) Technology Commercialization Fund (TCF) grants. In 2016, the first year of the TCF ...
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Explore 70 years of LLNL history through the ‘Big Ideas Lab’

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has released its second episode of the “Big Ideas Lab” Podcast, taking a look at some of the pivotal world events that led to the Lab’s founding in 1952, ...
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X-ray technique provides a new tool for nuclear forensics investigations

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory scientists used the Advanced Light Source, shown here, to develop a new technique in nuclear forensics. (Photo: Thor ...
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UC-Livermore Collaboration Center connects people, expertise, technology

Since it first opened its doors 16 months ago, the University of California Livermore Collaboration Center (UCLCC) has helped strengthen collaborations to address some of the UC system’s — and the ...
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It’s a metal, not a gas: flerovium chemical properties unveiled

LLNL researchers and an international team have gained new insights into the chemical properties of the superheavy element 114, flerovium. Opens in a new window Opens in a new window Opens in a new ...
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A deep dive into the interior of red dwarfs

This illustration shows a red dwarf star orbited by a hypothetical exoplanet. Red dwarfs tend to be magnetically active, displaying gigantic arcing prominences and a wealth of dark sunspots. Red ...
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LLNL’s Xiaoxing Xia named among MIT Technology Review’s top Innovators Under 35

MIT Technology Review has named Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) research scientist Xiaoxing Xia as one of its 2025 Innovators Under 35 — a global list honoring early-career researchers ...
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Satellite pierces through space to discover unexpected winds and sloshing intergalactic gas

An artist’s conception of the quasar PDS 456. Results from the XRISM satellite showed that the supermassive black hole ejects winds at unexpectedly high speeds. (Image: JAXA) Opens in a new window ...
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First experimental evidence for superionic ice

Among the many discoveries on matter at high pressure that garnered him the Nobel Prize in 1946, scientist Percy Bridgman discovered five different crystalline forms of water ice, ushering in more ...
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Construction to begin on world's largest camera

The Department of Energy has approved the start of construction for a 3.2-gigapixel digital camera — the world’s largest — for the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST). The construction milestone, ...
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Lab scientist wins outstanding doctoral thesis award from American Physical Society

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientist Alison Ruth Christopherson has earned the American Physical Society’s Marshall N. Rosenbluth Outstanding Doctoral Thesis award. Lawrence Livermore ...
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30 years later, Hunters Trophy participants recall LLNL’s final underground nuclear test

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory engineer Jack Cutting (far left) and other LLNL employees surround the nuclear device as it is moved through the “N Tunnel” at the Nevada Test Site. Photo from ...