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US national laboratory researching nuclear security, fusion, and high-energy-density physics; home to the National Ignition Facility.
Lawrence Livermore's CHICOX counter ran nine experiments on 13 nuclei at Argonne's ATLAS facility in its first campaign. Its builders say the data can test predictive models of nuclear shape, though the paper published so far describes the instrument itself.
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Lawrence Livermore researchers say a 3D-printed bioreactor turns methane into succinate over 10 times better than liquid systems while using less power. The account does not define the tenfold metric, and at 1 liter the reactor is still a lab device meant eventually for small landfill and wastewater sites.
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Ryan Lester and colleagues put windows in the gold cylinder that confines a National Ignition Facility shot. The escaping pulse reached tens of trillions of watts, on a par with the brightness of some red dwarf stars.
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The Intel spinout's Active Compute Fabric targets Nvidia's NVLink but reaches customers only through platform builders such as Qualcomm, on terms neither company has described.
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Xcimer took investment from RTX Ventures and Pacific Fusion signed an agreement with the NNSA. TechCrunch's reporting shows defense interest landing on machines that already exist, with both plant programs still running.
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A Nature Physics measurement lands on the temperature models had already predicted, so the older laboratory numbers were the outliers. The same shots saw no intermediate solid carbon phase before the diamond went liquid.
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A corrected melting curve for carbon is the real product here. It does double duty, governing where diamond turns liquid inside Neptune and how hard a fusion capsule should be hit on the first shock.
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Ground broke on August 25 on a $1 billion, 156-module pulsed machine aiming at net facility gain by 2030. The commercial gap is five times the output and 86,400 shots a day.
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Livermore's direct ink writing removes the assembly step at the core-cladding boundary. The output is still hundreds of milliwatts against a kilowatt ambition.
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UC Davis-led work in Current Biology finds honeybee queens offload accumulated pesticide into their eggs. A non-lethal dose the queen walks away from is not a dose the colony walked away from.
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An FRIB-led team reports in Nature that the decades-old low-energy gamma excess appears only in magnetic transitions, where protons and neutrons flip their internal magnets.
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The startup says crystal growth now takes 30 minutes instead of up to a week, and a whole pellet two to three hours. Nine of its ten stated barriers remain.
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LLNL says its Nature Physics measurement reconciles diamond melting data with quantum simulations, and that applying it to inertial-confinement fusion could triple energy gain.
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Shock-compression data published in Nature reconciles diamond melting experiments with quantum simulations. The lab says applying it to inertial confinement fusion could triple energy gain.
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