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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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Exploring the shapes of exotic nuclei

The CHICOX detector, which will contribute important data to inform theories and models of nuclear physics, and the LLNL team that designed and built it. From left, Brenden Longfellow, Claus ...
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Recover rare-earth elements on the Big Ideas Lab podcast

Rare-earth elements are the spices of modern technology. You don't use much. A pinch here, a pinch there. But leave them out, and the whole thing falls apart. “To realize how much of your daily life ...
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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

Operated by the Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC for the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration Learn about the Department of Energy's Vulnerability Disclosure ...
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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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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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LLNL CHAMPS team selected to develop a heavy-lift drone for DARPA competition

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s Collaborative Heavy-lift Aerial unManned Propellor Systems (CHAMPS) team participated in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Lift Challenge held in ...
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A shot for the ages: Fusion ignition breakthrough hailed as ‘one of the most impressive scientific feats of the 21st century’

In a press conference at the Department of Energy (DOE) headquarters on Dec. 13, DOE Secretary Jennifer Granholm announces Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s (LLNL) historic feat of achieving ...
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Girls empowered to expand their horizons

The San Joaquin Expanding Your Horizons (SJEYH) conference for girls celebrated its 25th year with the theme "STEMpowered!" on Saturday, Sept. 23, bringing 500 girls to the University of the Pacific ...