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Programs from Lawrence Livermore National Lab.
The 2022 Carbon Sequestration Symposium at California State University, Bakersfield, focuses on engaging the community, industry, policymake...
Limited medical equipment on space craft makes medical care in space a real challenge. Ordinary problems must be dealt with, as well as prob...
New state-of-the-art chronologic measurements of rocks brought to Earth by Apollo astronauts reveal that many of the historical age determin...
Our planet has been continually bombarded by asteroids since its formation, 4.5 billion years ago. While the frequency of large impacts has...
The blood-brain-barrier (BBB) is a special structure in the body that helps to protect the brain from unwanted toxins and germs. Unfortunate...
Cancer becomes highly dangerous when it spreads from its original site to a different vital organ. These secondary tumors called metastases...
The human brain contains approximately 86 billion neurons, and 100 trillion connections between those neurons. Despite our inability to imag...
The human brain is composed of billions of cells that communicate through chemical and electrical signals. LLNL microelectrodes can interfac...
Proteins are nature’s machines, performing tasks from transforming sunlight into useable energy to binding oxygen for transport through the...
Accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) is a sensitive mass spectrometric method for detecting and quantifying rare long-lived isotopes with hig...
How often do you wonder about supercomputers and computers that "think" like humans? Supercomputers have been used to model complex scientif...
Particle accelerators have been revolutionizing discoveries in science, medicine, industry and national security for over a century. An esti...
Find out about both synthetic and molecular biology approaches to produce small nano-machines (nano-bots). The main building blocks for thes...
Revolutionary changes to materials and structures are now possible with 3D printing, bringing concepts that were previously only imagined in...
A vast majority of the newly discovered human pathogens are viruses that have jumped to humans from an animal host ("cross-species transmiss...
In the last decade, the scientific foundations of a number of traditional forensic methods have come under increasing criticism by the scien...
Everything we can see and touch is made up of chemical elements as illustrated on the Periodic Table of Elements. The heaviest, naturally oc...
Statistics is the science of data: measuring and assessing uncertainty and more generally, learning from data. Since scientific, technical,...
The National Ignition Facility (NIF) at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is the world's largest and most powerful laser sys...
Despite being diminutive in size, iChips have the potential to make big impacts on drug development and medical treatment testing. Lawrence...
Computer simulations of earthquake shaking can provide valuable information on the expected intensity of shaking from earthquakes. Arthur Ro...
How does groundwater interact with surface water and surface ecosystems? How can the many types and forms of groundwater pollution be visual...
The new abundance of natural gas provides energy options for America, including clean electric power. Oil production has increased, reducing...
What are fossil fuels? What is the greenhouse effect? How are the two related? Can we reduce our reliance on fossil fuels and lower the emis...
Computer modeling is a powerful tool for scientific inquiry when experiments are too costly, too dangerous, or simply impossible. Computatio...
Microbes are living organisms too small to be seen. While most are friendly to humans, some microbes, called pathogens, can cause disease. A...
Fusion energy is a possible long-term energy solution to provide the energy needed to drive economic growth and social development. Harnessi...
Computers are becoming an increasingly cheaper, more powerful tool that cannot be ignored by professionals. Computer simulation reproduces t...
The successes of the Veterans Internship program at Lawrence Livermore National Lab. [Public Affairs] [Education] [Show ID: 27766]
We live in a time where miraculous medical discoveries are occurring all the time. Regrettably many of the miracle tools, because of their s...
The most ancient forms of life - bacteria - are exceptionally tiny organisms, yet they have contributed in big ways to our planet. Although...
NASA's NuSTAR spacecraft, launched in June of 2012, uses technology developed in part by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to take pict...
When a killer infection spreads in the movies, the doctors triage and isolate the patients while a medical biologist races to diagnose the i...
After traveling through the inner solar system for seven years, NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft reached Mercury in March 2011 and became the fir...
The probability of a magnitude 6.7 or greater earthquake in the Greater Bay Area during the next 30 years is 63 percent, or about two out of...
Paul Jackson, Division Leader of the Biosciences and Biotechnology Division at Lawrence Livermore National Lab, presents a brief history of...
Space junk - thousands of debris objects are hurtling around the earth with the potential of crashing into one another. As we launch more sa...
Millions of people worldwide suffer from ocular diseases that degrade the retina, the light-processing component of the eye, causing blindne...
George Caporaso, LLNL scientist, explores the role radiation plays in the treatment of cancer, and in particular, how the use of energetic p...
Can we produce much of the energy we need from clean, renewable sources? Jeff Mirocha, atmospheric scientist and the technical leader of LLN...
The periodic table is on the wall of most science classrooms, but it is changing. Ken Moody, Chief Scientist for Radiochemistry, explains th...
LLNL scientist Dean Williams explores the evolution of climate models with from the mid 1970's to the present. Methods for testing climate m...
400 years ago, our world-view changed when Galileo proved that the Earth was not the center of the universe but orbits around the Sun. 15 ye...
Hydrocarbon fuels come almost exclusively from underground. We burn the coal or oil to obtain energy - and for hundreds of years, we have th...
Our future health, happiness and economic well-being depends on producing plentiful, inexpensive, carbon-free energy that is available 24 ho...
It is very likely that rising levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere resulting from human activity are increasing global temperatures...
Those windmills spinning away in the hills and mountain passes provide clean and renewable energy to our power grids. Lawrence Livermore Nat...
Aerogels are a class of materials with fascinating properties but they are hardly materials at all as they can be composed of up to 99.8% em...
The solar system formed from a cloud of interstellar gas and dust cloud about 4.6 billion years ago. Life began on earth about 3.5 billion y...
Every couple of years, the earth is hit by a body with energy near that of the Hiroshima bomb. Deposited high in the atmosphere these events...