S&TR | August 2020

The Laboratory in the News

Working toward a World Free of Chemical Weapons

Commentary by Huban A. Gowadia

The Worldwide Effort to Ban Chemical Weapons

The Laboratory’s Forensic Science Center is an important ally in the international endeavor to prohibit chemical warfare agents.

The Sierra Era

Lawrence Livermore’s fastest supercomputer runs mission-driven simulations on specially optimized hardware and software.

Tapping the Earth’s Heat for Clean Energy

Working in a deep underground tunnel, researchers are learning how to turn heat from impermeable rock into clean, low-carbon-emitting power.

Drop by Drop: A Promising Method for Printing Metal Parts

A novel additive manufacturing technique applies tiny droplets of molten metal layer by layer.

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