In honor of the 2023 Livermore Reads Together featured book, The Radium Girls, Livermore Public Library will host a talk and Q & A session with Dr. Joe W. Gray on Tuesday, March 14, at 6 p.m. via Zoom.
The Tri-Valley chapter of Citizens' Climate Education and Citizens' Climate Lobby is sponsoring several events from April 15-25 to celebrate the 51st anniversary of Earth Day.
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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's (LLNL) popular lecture series, “Science on Saturday,” returns through Feb. 25.
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Second Lt. Hannah Fletcher, a 2021 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) summer intern, has been named the 2022 United States Air Force (USAF) Cadet of the Year.
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Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (LLNS), the contract manager for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), has announced the recipients for the 2022 LLNS Community Gift Program. These gifts, totaling $200,000, reflect LLNS’ commitment to local communities.
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Brad Roberts has received one of the highest honors bestowed by the Government of Japan.
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The Livermore Public Library and the East Bay Regional Park District will host four animal-science activities next month for students in grades 6 through 12.
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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory employees, along with Lawrence Livermore National Security (LLNS), LLC, donated more than $3.6 million to non-profit organizations via the annual employee charitable giving program, the Helping Others More Effectively (HOME) Campaign.
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LIVERMORE – The National Ignition Facility (NIF) at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) brought the world closer to harnessing the power of stars on earth when it conducted a fusion experiment on Dec. 5.
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U.S. Congressman Eric Swalwell (CA-15) recently commended Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s National Ignition Facility (NIF), located in the Congressman’s district, on its breakthrough development to produce a fusion reaction that creates a net energy gain.
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LIVERMORE – In a stunning experiment last week, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s giant National Ignition Facility finally lived up to its name, igniting fusion fuel with precisely tailored laser pulses and generating more energy in the ensuing explosion than was needed to trigger it.
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Linking the identity of wild microbes with their physiological traits and environmental functions is a key aim for environmental microbiologists.
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A team of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientists has developed a technique to analyze fentanyl in human blood and urine samples that could benefit the fields of medicine and chemical forensics.
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Brian T.N. Gunney, a scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and author of the historical fantasy “Dragon’s Ridge,” will give a talk about the aeronautics of dragon flight at 3 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 11, at the Civic Center Library, 1188 S. Livermore Ave., Livermore.
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The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) and Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) announced that they have awarded the 2023 SIAM/ACM Prize in Computational Science and Engineering to the team behind the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)-developed SUNDIALS so…
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LIVERMORE – Downtown Livermore is home to a new mural meant to inspire viewers to reach for the stars.
Sahand Adibnia, a 2022 graduate of Dublin High School, is a finalist for the popular vote in this year’s Breakthrough Junior Challenge, a global competition designed to inspire students to think creatively about science.
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Veeva Systems, a Pleasanton cloud-based software developer, will host the 2022 Tri-Valley Life Sciences Summit from 5 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., on Thursday, Oct. 13.
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Research at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has earned three awards this year from R&D Magazine, a trade journal that annually recognizes the 100 top industrial inventions worldwide.
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LIVERMORE – An eminent biological scientist with ties to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is part of a major effort to develop a national research program that can explore the detailed health effects of low-level radiation exposures.
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LIVERMORE – The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory marked its 70th anniversary last week with an event sponsored by the Livermore Lab Foundation and held at Garré Vineyard & Winery. The event featured all eight former living directors, two of whom attended remotely via video conferen…
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Staff from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) will answer questions about careers for women in STEM fields (science, technology, science, and mathematics) at the Livermore Public Library’s Rincon Branch, 725 Rincon Ave., at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 2; and at the Civic Center Li…
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Larry Gates, who established and directed a key Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory program to evaluate the capabilities of the world’s many climate models, died late last month in Germany. He was 93.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and collaborating agencies have received a $4 million grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop ways to separate and purify rare-earth elements using both naturally occurring and engineered proteins and bacteria.
Scientists at Sandia National Laboratories have released data that could play an important role in the future development of cleaner and more sustainable aviation fuel.
LIVERMORE — The Livermore community recently celebrated the opening of its newest park downtown with a ribbon-cutting ceremony for Livermorium Plaza.
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Anne Giancola of LVPAC works on a mural honoring NASA astronauts with a Livermore connection. The mural faces North K Street by Railroad Avenue.
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System Overload Robotics has announced their spring Open House to share STEM-related educational and team activities for high school-aged youth throughout the Tri-Valley area.
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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have agreed to collaborate on developing cloud-based storage solutions for use in high-performance computing (HPC). In announcing the agreement last week, LLNL and Amazon’s cloud-based storage subsidiary said they wo…
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For decades, it has been commonly assumed that U.S. interests are secure because the overwhelming power of American military forces deters major aggression.
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The Livermore Lab Foundation (LLF) has released its annual report for 2021 to update its donor community and spread the word about the work it is doing.
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For half a century, Amory Lovins has put forth imaginative ideas aimed at encouraging society to consume energy more wisely, using less energy when possible and generating it ethically and sustainably when it has to be produced.
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Scientists at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore recently published research data that could lead to the development of cleaner, more environmentally sustainable aviation fuel.
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For the second consecutive year, Winds of Change, a magazine published by the American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES), has named Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) one of the Top 50 STEM Workplaces for Indigenous professionals.
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For the second consecutive year, Winds of Change, a magazine published by the American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES), has named Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) one of the Top 50 STEM Workplaces for Indigenous professionals.
Amory Lovins, a physicist and former chairman of the Rocky Mountain Institute, will discuss the global energy revolution in a presentation titled “Energizing the Future” at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, May 12 at the Bankhead Theater in Livermore.
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LIVERMORE — The city and scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) are joining forces to create strategies they hope will eliminate the city’s carbon emissions by 2045.
The $84.5 million settlement of a health care lawsuit by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory against the University of California is proceeding professionally and on schedule, according to the official report of a court-appointed monitor.
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If you’ve ever wondered what kind of impact meteorites have on earth, our culture, or our history, look no further than Greg Brennecka’s new book, “Impact: How Rocks From Space Led to Life, Culture and Donkey Kong.”
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The U.S. Senate earlier this month confirmed Marvin Adams, a former physicist from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, to be deputy administrator for defense programs at the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA.)
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More than 350 Livermore Valley Joint Unified School District (LVJUSD) students participated in this year’s Science Odyssey.
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Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have determined that the ability of T cells and the human immune system to destroy cancer cells depends significantly on the matrix of molecules and proteins that make up an organ’s structural ‘scaffolding.’
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Tom Ramos, a physicist and former nuclear weapons designer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), will give a virtual history lecture, “How the Livermore Lab Helped Avert a Nuclear War,” at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, April 19.
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A draft of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) five-year report on environmental cleanup efforts at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) site in Livermore is now available for public review and comment.
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Students in Joey Rodriguez’s science class at Livermore High School, are learning about carbon footprints and combating climate change, thanks to the Livermore Lab Foundation (LLF). The world-renowned organization has created a Carbon Cleanup Initiative educational tool kit for use in high s…
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Best-selling author Mary Roach, renowned for her off-beat and humorous take on everyday science, will present “Mary Roach’s World of Weird Science,” at 7:30 p.m., on Thursday, March 24, in the Bankhead Theater as part of the Rae Dorough Speaker Series.
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LIVERMORE — A newly published history traces the early years of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory from failed nuclear tests that nearly led to the Laboratory’s demise to a series of brilliant inventions that opened the door to the modern nuclear arsenal.
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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is working with Microsoft Corporation to map out a path for the global technology company to be carbon neutral by 2030.
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Bakersfield College and the Livermore Lab Foundation have created a partnership to provide scientific technical assistance, community education, and workforce development for the management of carbon dioxide, including carbon neutrality, mitigation, removal, and storage.
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Quest Science Center will host the fourth annual Tri-Valley Innovation Fair at the Alameda County Fairgrounds in Pleasanton on Saturday, March 19.
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The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has released annual performance evaluations for its contractors, scoring Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratories “excellent” or “very good” in all key performance areas during the 2021 fiscal year.
