How safe would you feel, going back into a multi-story building that had just been through an earthquake? A new sensor system could allay your fears, as it optically measures how much a building has swayed, and thus how damaged it may be.
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Scientists from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's Forensic Science Center and Michigan State University have established that it's possible to identify a person from a single hair taken from anywhere on the human body.
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A white dwarf is one of the last stages of life for stars of a certain size, and it’s all downhill from there. But supercomputer simulations run by astronomers at LLNL suggest that these dying stars could be reignited by a close encounter with an enigmatic class of black hole.
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In a move that could make demolition teams breathe a bit easier, scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) are studying the structure of high explosives to find out how to make them safer.
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A consortium of American and British science institutions is working on a way to use antineutrinos to remotely monitor nuclear reactors. The 3,500-ton WATCHMAN detector will be installed in a mine on the northeast coast of England as part of international nuclear weapon non-proliferation efforts.
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A partnership of scientists has been studying a conceptual spacecraft called the Hypervelocity Asteroid Mitigation Mission for Emergency Response (HAMMER) vehicle, designed to deflect dangerous asteroids before they reach us.
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The US government has just released 62 newly declassified videos showing footage of atmospheric nuclear tests from the first half of the 20th century. The videos, never before seen by the general public, have been uploaded to YouTube.
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Delivering more bang for your buck is one thing but is renewable energy ready to face off with fossil fuels? With falling investment costs and renewable power capacity hitting a record high last year, a new UN report is optimistic about its prospects.
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A team of engineers has developed a new way of 3D-printing metals that could improve on existing, laser-on-powder based methods. It relies on using semi-solid metals that are solid at rest, but can flow when force is applied, making it possible to move through the nozzle of a printer.
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About 10,000 reels of film recording the 210 above-ground US nuclear tests are the focus of a project at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) that has spent the past five years transferring the decomposing images to digital format.
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