LIVERMORE, California, Nov. 20 (TNSjou) -- The U.S. Department of Energy Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory issued the following news: * * * Experiments show how water could form on exoplanets, disrupting current theories In the search for extraterrestrial life, the presence of water is a key signature of possible habitability. Identifying why some planets are wet and others are dry could help with the hunt. In a recent study published in Nature (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-02  more

LIVERMORE, California, Nov. 20 -- The U.S. Department of Energy Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory issued the following news: * * * Gordon Bell finalist team pushes scale of rocket simulation on El Capitan Researchers used Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's (LLNL) exascale supercomputer El Capitan to perform the largest fluid dynamics simulation ever -- surpassing one quadrillion degrees of freedom in a single computational fluid dynamics (CFD) problem. The team focused the effort o  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 (TNSLrpt) -- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has issued report PNNL-38196 titled 'Summary of Pilot Project State Technical Assistance on Multi-Sector Analysis for Electric and Petroleum Fuels', authored by Bhaskar Mitra, Li He, and Vanessa Hamilton for the U.S. Department of Energy under contract DE-AC05-76RL01830. The document was delivered in August 2025, detailing urgent energy security challenges and vulnerabilities facing Oregon's transportation fuel supply chain a  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 (TNSLrpt) -- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has issued report PNNL-34458, titled 'Technical Considerations for Siting, Constructing, and Operating Pumped Storage Hydropower on U.S. Air Force Installations and Other Department of Defense Sites,' authored for the U.S. Department of Energy under contract DE-AC05-76RL01830. Published in September 2025, the report delivers a comprehensive examination of pumped storage hydropower (PSH) technologies, market trends, regulatory  more