About this podcast
Your exploration inside Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Hear untold stories, meet boundary-pushing pioneers and get unparalleled access to groundbreaking science and technology. From national security challenges to computing revolutions, discover the innovations that are shaping tomorrow, today.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 64 episodes
- Tsunami Forecasting · 22 min · Episode 63Tsunami warning systems are either fast or accurate. LLNL is demonstrating that they may someday be both.
- Exoplanets · 29 min · Episode 62The nearest exoplanet is about 4 light-years away, but from a single speck of light, scientists can peer into their atmospheres - and recreate pieces of these distant worlds here…
- Rare Earth Elements · 21 min · Episode 61Rare-earth elements are hidden inside nearly every piece of modern technology.
- CODA Telescope · 24 min · Episode 60The breakthrough wasn’t a new telescope. It was a new way to build one.
- NIF Diagnostics · 19 min · Episode 58Lawrence Livermore turns an event too fast, too hot, and too dense to touch into knowledge.
- STARMOC · 21 min · Episode 57The number of objects in orbit is doubling every two years, and the systems built to keep watch still run on formats designed around 1960s punch cards.
- The Postdoc Journey · 15 min · Episode 56What happens after a PhD, but before a scientist is fully established?
- SLAM · 22 min · Episode 55Scientists from all 17 national laboratories get three minutes to explain years of complex research.
- Genesis Mission · 24 min · Episode 53AI, supercomputing, experiments, and the infrastructure of the national laboratories unite under one mission to accelerate discovery.
- Skyfall · 17 min · Episode 52Scientists are simulating cyber attacks and system failures on real-world energy infrastructure.
- JASPER · 17 min · Episode 51Scientists at JASPER study one of the most consequential materials on Earth: plutonium.
- HPC4EI · 21 min · Episode 50Today’s toughest industrial challenges are being solved without ever touching the factory floor.
- Target Fabrication · 14 min · Episode 48A tiny, precisely engineered object built to withstand the intensity of the world’s highest energy laser system.
- Discovery Science at NIF · 15 min · Episode 46Researchers and students gain access to the most extreme conditions in the universe.
