S&TR | September 2018

 

The Laboratory in the News

Emphasis on Learning Empowers the Laboratory’s Lasers

Commentary by Jeff Wisoff

Two World-Class Lasers Combine to Power Applications

Merging the Advanced Radiographic Capability laser into the National Ignition Facility’s laser enables researchers to uncover the extremes of plasma and fusion physics

Solving the Mysteries of Metal Hardening

Never-before-possible simulations of hundreds of millions of atoms reveal new behaviors of metals as they harden under extreme pressure.

Machine Learning Points Toward New Laser Target Designs

The largest-ever data set of inertial confinement fusion implosions turned a supercomputer into a server farm and may have uncovered a counterintuitive path toward ignition.

Computer Modeling Provides New Insights into Traumatic Brain Injury

Important new information is revealed about the origin of concussion.

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