Dec. 11, 2015 - Lawrence Livermore Lab engineer Bryan Moran wasn’t necessarily looking to improve on 3D printing technology when he moved over to Additive Manufacturing three years ago, but he may have done just that. Moran’s creation, a new take on a process called projection micro-stereolithography, which uses...
Dec. 10, 2015 - Lawrence Livermore researchers and collaborators have found that most climate models overestimate the increase in global precipitation due to climate change. Specifically, the team looked at 25 models and found they underestimate the increase in absorption of sunlight by water vapor as the...
Dec. 9, 2015 - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory employees, along with Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (LLNS), have raised $3.2 million to give to charities within their surrounding communities. Laboratory employees pledged $2.2 million through the Helping Others More Effectively (HOME) Campaign,...
Dec. 4, 2015 - Editor's Note: During the HOME Campaign, Public Affairs will run a series of articles about Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory employees who volunteer for various nonprofit agencies. When families in the Central Valley city of Manteca lose their homes, there is an emergency shelter that offers...
Dec. 3, 2015 - The cardiovascular system is a complex web of tens of thousands of miles of arteries, capillaries and veins, branching throughout the body like tributaries of a great river. And now, researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory are recapitulating this intricate network using an emerging...
Dec. 3, 2015 - The full power of Lawrence Llivermore’s Sequoia supercomputer played a key role in the Earth mantle convection simulation by a University of Texas-led team that won the 2015 Gordon Bell Prize, announced at this year’s Supercomputing Conference (SC15). The team’s peak performance results were...
Dec. 2, 2015 - Editor's Note: During the HOME Campaign, Public Affairs will run a series of articles about Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory employees who volunteer for various nonprofit agencies. _______________ Networking always has been important to Darlene Yazzie, a facility coordinator in the Operations...
Dec. 1, 2015 - Past and current climate change has affected the food sources in the surface waters in the North Pacific Ocean. New research by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and colleagues at the University of California, Santa Cruz, University of Colorado and Universität zu Kiel in Germany, have found...
Nov. 25, 2015 - Editor's Note: During the HOME Campaign, Public Affairs will run a series of articles about Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory employees who volunteer for various nonprofit agencies. _______________ For the past 15 years, Dan Knight, Lawrence Livermore National Lab’s deputy associate director...
Nov. 23, 2015 - Kenneth Turteltaub of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has been named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Turteltaub was specifically noted for the development of ultra-precise accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) methods for biomedicine and work on...
Nov. 20, 2015 - Editor's Note: During the HOME Campaign, Public Affairs will run a series of articles about Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory employees who volunteer for various nonprofit agencies. ______________ It was a poignant and unexpected moment. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) employee...
Nov. 19, 2015 - The collaboration of Oak Ridge, Argonne and Lawrence Livermore (CORAL) that will bring the Sierra supercomputer to the Lab in 2018 has been recognized by HPCWire with an Editor’s Choice Award for Best HPC Collaboration between Government and Industry. The award was received by Doug Wade, head of...
Nov. 19, 2015 - A Lab scientist whose ties as a student, researcher and alumnus with Stanford University span six decades has been honored by the Bay Area university. LLNL materials scientist Troy Barbee Jr. was one of four Stanford graduates inducted into the university’s Multicultural Alumni Hall of Fame (MAHF)...
Nov. 17, 2015 - Scientists from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, in collaboration with researchers from University of California campuses at Merced and Davis, have found that a specific secreted protein inhibits prostate cancer metastasis to bone. Their research appears in recent editions of the journals,...
Nov. 16, 2015 - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers are the recipients of three awards among the top 100 industrial inventions worldwide for 2014. The trade journal R&D Magazine announced the winners of its annual awards, sometimes called the "Oscars of invention," Friday in Las Vegas. With this...
Nov. 13, 2015 - The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and its three national labs today announced they have reached an agreement with NVIDIA’s PGI® software to create an open-source Fortran compiler designed for integration with the widely used LLVM compiler infrastructure...
Nov. 13, 2015 - Editor's Note: During the HOME Campaign, Public Affairs will run a series of articles about Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory employees who volunteer for various nonprofit agencies. ______________ Dozens of motorcycles, adorned with U.S. and military flags, roll down the highway on a special...
Nov. 12, 2015 - Supercomputers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) will be retrofitted with liquid cooling systems under a California Energy Commission (CEC) grant to assess potential energy savings. Asetek, a leading provider of energy, efficient liquid cooling systems for data centers, servers and...
Nov. 11, 2015 - Growing up in Livermore, Frankie Stoneham never pictured herself as an engineer. She didn’t particularly like math and, like many military veterans, wasn’t sure what she wanted to do once her service ended. But over this past summer, Stoneham, a first-year student at Las Positas College and former...
Nov. 10, 2015 - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s success in moving technology to the marketplace took center stage at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, D.C. last week as senior Lab officials joined other national laboratories, White House officials and universities for the Forum on...