Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Scientists simulated a nuclear fireball and found a surprise in the fallout

Scientists simulated a nuclear fireball and found a surprise in the fallout - Date: - June 3, 2026 - Source: - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) - Summary: - Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory recreated part of the intense chaos inside a nuclear fireball to better understand how radioactive fallout forms. Their experiments revealed that the way vaporized materials cool can dramatically change the particles that eventually form, especially for volatile elements...

A new capability to detect chemical weapons involves two existing methods

A new capability to detect chemical weapons involves two existing methods Stephanie Baum Scientific Editor Robert Egan Associate Editor In the aftermath of suspected chemical attacks, investigators from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) step in to collect chemical, environmental, and biomedical samples. Thorough forensic laboratory analysis of these samples is essential for proving what—if any—chemical agents were used and verifying their identities. Researchers...

Argonne flexes spare supercompute to build private AI inference service

Cloud-tested quantum noise model predicts superconducting qubit errors with sevenfold better accuracy

Cloud-tested quantum noise model predicts superconducting qubit errors with sevenfold better accuracy Gaby Clark Scientific Editor Robert Egan Associate Editor Researchers from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, and Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore have developed a practical, comprehensive noise-modeling framework for a popular class of superconducting quantum processors. Their work, published in the journal PRX Quantum, offers a sevenfold...