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From kilobytes to petabytes in 50 years

DOE/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

"The day when the scientist, no matter how devoted, can make significant progress alone and without material help has passed." - E.O. Lawrence, founder of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, on accepting the 1939 Nobel Prize for Physics.

A new step towards worldwide collaboration on linear colliders

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In February the DOE's SLAC was the focal point for discussion and long term planning in global high-energy physics. A process of research and development, meetings and discussion has allowed the world's High-Energy Physics community to move towards a common vision on the next major facility.

Laser ultrasonic sensor streamlines papermaking process

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Hoping to save the paper manufacturing industry millions of dollars in energy costs, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory engineers have developed a laser ultrasonic sensor that measures paper's flexibility as it courses through a production web at up to 65 miles per hour.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Livermore lab physicist to discuss exploration of the universe and beyond using laboratory astrophysics

DOE/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory physicist Bruce Remington will be discussing this and other findings (Feb. 16) at 4:30 p.m. EST in a presentation entitled: "Laboratory Astrophysics Using High- Power Lasers," during the "Visualizing and Looking Beyond Earth" track of the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Boston.

Meeting: AAAS 2002 Annual Meeting

Researchers create simulation of chemical/biological release in Salt Lake City as precautionary measure

DOE/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have created a three-dimensional simulation of how a biological or chemical release could spread in and around Salt Lake City. The simulation was not created in response to any known threat. But rather, it was made to display how a dangerous airborne substance would flow through downtown buildings in Salt Lake City as well as the outskirts of the site of the 2002 Winter Olympics in case of an accidental release or terrorist attack.

LLNL develops powerful new rechargable battery

DOE/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have developed and demonstrated a laboratory prototype miniature thin-film fuel cell power source, which provides portable electrical power for a range of consumer electronics. With the LLNL fuel cell, a typical cell phone battery could be projected to last more than 300 percent longer, extending standby time from four days to two weeks, and talk time from six hours to two days.

Disorderly superconductors caught in the act

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

The "granular" nature of superconductivity in underdoped high-temperature superconductors proposed by theorists has had some believers but many skeptics. New observations, reported in the 24 January issue of Nature, may shift how researchers think about these materials.

Lab scientists present cosmic findings to Astronomical Society

DOE/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Two researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory will present preliminary findings today that show the association of unique gas flows to rapidly rotating black holes. This research is of special interest to organizations like the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) because it may help explain unusual periodic timing properties seen in the X-rays being emitted near many suspected black holes.

Meeting: 199th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society

LLNL scientists create a virtual star over Hawaii for the world's largest telescope

DOE/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, in collaboration with the W.M. Keck Observatory, have created a "virtual" guide star over Hawaii. The "virtual" guide star will be used with adaptive optics on the Keck II telescope to greatly increase the resolution of fine details of astronomical objects.

Rapid field detection of biological agents

DOE/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Livermore scientists have developed two portable biodetection systems to help in the fight against bioterrorism.