S&TR | September 2025

The Laboratory in the News

Commentary — Reimagining the Boundaries of Possibility

Commentary by Dawn Shaughnessy

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.

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