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Pandora mission demonstrates new model for low-cost, high-impact science
On Monday, Jan. 12, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), in partnership with NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) and Blue Canyon Technologies, announced the successful launch of the Pandora satellite into Earth’s orbit, initiating a yearlong mission to advance atmospheric characterization of planets beyond our solar system, also known as exoplanets. Pandora…
LLNL and Energy I-Corps take science from big ideas to big market impact
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) pursues big ideas to solve the most important security challenges facing the U.S. and the world. In that pursuit, scientific breakthroughs with market potential are discovered, protected and licensed to (or collaborated on) with industry partners through a process called technology transfer. LLNL’s Innovation and Partnerships…
LLNL, UT & UCSD win Gordon Bell Prize with exascale tsunami forecasting
Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), the University of Texas at Austin’s (UT) Oden Institute and Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) on Nov. 20 were awarded the prestigious 2025 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Gordon Bell Prize for developing a real-time tsunami early-warning framework…
Gordon Bell finalist team pushes scale of rocket simulation on El Capitan
Researchers used Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s (LLNL) exascale supercomputer El Capitan to perform the largest fluid dynamics simulation ever — surpassing one quadrillion degrees of freedom in a single computational fluid dynamics (CFD) problem. The team focused the effort on rocket–rocket plume interactions. El Capitan is funded by the National Nuclear Security…
El Capitan retains title as world’s fastest supercomputer in latest Top500
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s (LLNL) El Capitan once again claimed the top spot on the Top500 List of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, announced today at the 2025 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC25) conference in St. Louis. The National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA’s) first exascale…
Unique resin allows 3D-printing method to add and subtract
Additive manufacturing, or 3D printing, is normally a one-way street. In a digital light processing (DLP) printer, a structured pattern is projected onto a layer of liquid resin, which cures and solidifies. This builds an object up, layer-by-layer. But if the print isn’t exactly right, there’s no easy way to fix it after the fact: it usually ends up in the trash. In a new…
LLNL-led fusion energy hub expands roster of diode experts
The STARFIRE Hub for inertial fusion energy (IFE), led by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), has added five new members to its Diode Technology Working Group. These organizations add further breadth to world-class expertise in diode technology, strengthening STARFIRE’s collaborative effort to advance the technology basis for IFE. “We’re excited to welcome a…
Lab scientists win four 2025 R&D 100 awards
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientists and engineers have earned four awards among the top 100 inventions worldwide. The trade journal R&D World Magazine recently announced the winners of the awards, often called the “Oscars of innovation,” recognizing new commercial products, technologies and materials that are available for sale or license for their…
Annual LLNL tech transfer report highlights how partnerships advance technologies to market
Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratories, like Lawrence Livermore (LLNL), offer unique opportunities to collaborate on and license scientific breakthroughs with market potential. In its Fiscal Year 2024 (FY24) Technology Transfer Annual Report, LLNL highlights how industry partnerships accelerate innovation and deliver real-world impact. In FY24, LLNL reported 201…
LLNL and Starris sign agreement, schedule conference talk for Aug. 13
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and Starris: Optimax Space Systems have signed a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA), expanding production of LLNL’s next-generation space domain awareness technology. Starris will serve as the manufacturing partner that can scale production of monolithic telescope technology to meet the needs for…
LLNL’s Sichi Li appointed to JACS Au Early Career Advisory Board
JACS Au, an open-access journal from the American Chemical Society, has selected Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) staff scientist Sichi Li to serve on its 2025–2026 Early Career Advisory Board. JACS Au publishes high-impact, cutting-edge research across the full spectrum of chemistry and related disciplines. The Early Career Advisory Board is composed of…
LLNL selected by Defense Innovation Unit to build Pathfinder telescope for space vehicles
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has been selected by the U.S. Department of Defense’s Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) to provide a new monolithic telescope for a responsive space mission that will launch as early as 2027. Firefly Aerospace will host and operate the payload onboard its Elytra orbital vehicle during the mission in low Earth orbit (LEO), the area…
LLNL and Purdue University accelerate discovery of medical countermeasures for emerging chemical threats
In a major advance for chemical defense and public safety, scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s (LLNL) Forensic Science Center (FSC) and Purdue University have developed and demonstrated a high-throughput, automated mass spectrometry platform. Their platform dramatically accelerates the discovery of medical countermeasure candidates against A-series…
ELI and LLNL strengthen collaboration
With more than a decade of productive partnership in advancing high-power laser technology, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and the Extreme Light Infrastructure (ELI) European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC) are looking to the future. The two institutions have signed a new Memorandum of Understanding that builds on their existing strategic…
LLNL and Sandia host hydrogen partner event at Livermore Open Campus
True to its mission, Livermore Valley Open Campus (LVOC) recently hosted a public-facing event where scientists and tech-transfer professionals from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and Sandia National Laboratories engaged with external companies open to exploring partnership opportunities in hydrogen technologies. The event featured an industry partner forum…
LLNL employees dive into AI’s transformative potential at aiEDGE for Innovation Day
More than 3,200 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) employees participated in the first-ever aiEDGE for Innovation Day on March 26 — an event aimed at empowering and equipping the Lab’s workforce to integrate AI into their daily work. The hybrid event, hosted with industry partners OpenAI and Anthropic, gave employees exclusive access to the companies’ latest…
Big Ideas Lab podcast takes on tech spinoffs and partnerships
For decades, the most cutting-edge scientific breakthroughs discovered at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have influenced technological advances that shaped the 21st century and continue to guide innovation in many industries. The current episode of the Big Ideas Lab podcast takes a deep dive into how the Innovation and Partnerships Office (IPO) facilitates…
1,000 Scientist AI Jam Session explores AI-driven scientific discovery
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) on Feb. 28 joined an initiative that brought together over 1,400 Department of Energy (DOE) scientists across multiple sites to explore how cutting-edge AI models could transform scientific research. The first-ever 1,000 Scientist AI Jam Session, hosted at nine DOE labs including LLNL, immersed scientists in a full-day, hands…
Four LLNL teams to attend Energy I-Corps Cohort 20
In a record setting year for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), four teams of LLNL researchers will attend the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Energy I-Corps (EIC) Cohort 20 this spring. The EIC is a key initiative of the DOE’s Office of Technology Transitions, and facilitated at LLNL by Hannah Farquar from the Innovation and Partnerships Office (IPO). Established…
LLNL and Canaery develop cutting-edge neural interface technology for scent detection
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and neurotechnology company Canaery have developed an advanced nose-computer interface (NCI) capable of enhancing the ability of scent-detection animals to simultaneously identify contraband such as explosives and narcotics, as well as other types of important scents such as biomarkers for neurological and infectious diseases…
