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.





