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LLNL community raises nearly $15,000 for West Coast wildfire relief

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) employees raised $14,976 to support communities affected by wildfires across California, Oregon and Washington through the West Coast Wildfire Relief ...
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Jennifer Pett-Ridge selected as fellow of American Geophysical Union

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientist Jennifer Pett-Ridge has been named a 2026 fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU). AGU is a global community supporting more than half a ...
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3D-printed, solid-state bioreactor converts methane waste to useful chemicals

When landfills and wastewater treatment plants create methane as a byproduct, much of it is simply burned and its value is lost. But the gas is an energy-rich resource, and it could be recycled as a ...
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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory achieves fusion ignition

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and DOE’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) today (Dec. 13) announced the achievement of fusion ignition at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ...
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Scientists design conceptual asteroid deflector and evaluate it against massive potential threat

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientists are part of a national planetary defense team that designed a conceptual spacecraft to deflect Earth-bound asteroids and evaluated whether it ...
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Lynn R. Anspaugh

Lynn R. Anspaugh died Sept. 13, 2026. Anspaugh received a doctor of philosophy in biophysics from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1963, and dedicated his career to advancing public health ...
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Scott Creamer

Scott Creamer died Sept. 21, 2026. He was 56. Creamer was born at Eden Hospital in Castro Valley on June 22, 1970, and was raised in Livermore, California, where he spent most of his life. He began ...
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National Ignition Facility provides backdrop for "Star Trek: Into Darkness"

LIVERMORE, Calif. -- The makers of "Star Trek: Into Darkness" went boldly where few have gone before when they visited Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's National Ignition Facility (NIF), the ...
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Scorpius accepts delivery of four production line-replaceable units

Line-replaceable units (LRUs), also known as pulsers, power the Scorpius electron beam accelerator, which will capture multiple X-ray images of dynamic explosives experiments important to ensuring the ...
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Americans move to more solar and wind power in 2021

Solar energy production increased drastically in 2021 with a jump of 20%. Opens in a new window Opens in a new window Opens in a new window The national economy is reenergizing, quite literally. In ...
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Come on in, the water is superionic

LLNL scientists have developed a new approach using machine learning to study with unprecedented resolution the phase behaviors of superionic water found in ice giants Uranus and Neptune. Opens in a ...