Wei Jia Ong, a staff scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), was named a 2026 recipient of the U.S.

The latest episode of the Big Ideas Lab podcast takes a dive into tsunami forecasting. Listen on Apple or Spotify. Opens in a new window Opens in a new window Opens in a new window When a powerful ...

The Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve (ESGR), an office of the Department of War (DOW) recognized Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in a ceremony on Thursday, Oct. 8, with the Pro ...

Kimberly S. Budil is the 13th director of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and president of Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC. In this role she sets the strategic vision for Lawrence ...

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 ...

Charles Swift died Sept. 7, 2026. He was 92. Swift was born in Ohio in 1934. During the Korean War era, he served in the United States Air Force. After his military service, he used the GI Bill to ...

Michael Orin Riley died Sept. 13, 2026. Riley was born in Florida where his father was stationed with the U.S. Navy; he grew up in Roseville, California. He earned a degree in chemistry from ...

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientists and engineers, in conjunction with the Department of Energy (DOE) and National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), are increasingly looking ...

(Download Image) The Centaurus A galaxy, at a distance of about 12 million light years from Earth, contains a gargantuan jet blasting away from a central supermassive black hole. In this image, red, ...

LLNL researchers are integrating technologies such as the Sierra supercomputer (left) and NIF (right) to understand complex problems like fusion in energy and the aging effects in nuclear weapons.

With a peak performance of 2.79 exaFLOPS, El Capitan comprises more than 11,000 compute nodes and provides Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory with a flagship machine 22 times more powerful than ...

Artist rendering of LLNL's new additively manufactured high-entropy alloys. Researchers leverage local, rapid cooling during additive manufacturing to affect how the atoms settle as the metal ...