Current Issue September 2025
Supercomputing Rises to Grand Scientific Challenges
For 20 years, Livermore’s Computing Grand Challenge Program has accelerated scientific discovery with unclassified supercomputing resources.
ATHENA’s Thermonuclear Wisdom
The National Ignition Facility’s (NIF’s) Advanced Technology High-Energy NIF Array moderator assembly simulates the energy spectra generated from thermonuclear weapon detonations.
Cosmochemists Grasp the Early Solar System
Livermore’s analysis enables cosmochemists to characterize pristine asteroid samples, improving our understanding of the early Solar System.
Casting a Light on Dark Matter
The Laboratory has had decades of involvement in the search for dark matter—specifically weakly interacting massive particles—using liquid xenon detectors.
Reimagining the Boundaries of Possibility
Commentary by Dawn Shaughnessy
Division leader for Nuclear and Chemical Sciences for the Physical and Life Sciences Principal Directorate
The Laboratory in the News
Awards
Patents
Science & Technology Review is published eight times a year to communicate, to a broad audience, the Laboratory’s scientific and technological accomplishments in support of national security and other enduring national needs. The publication’s goal is to help readers understand these accomplishments and appreciate their value to the individual citizen, the nation, and the world.
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