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Big Ideas Lab
Your weekly 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.
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The Bennu Asteroid
Episode Date: June 2, 2026In September 2023, a small NASA capsule streaked through Earth’s atmosphere and landed in the Utah desert, carrying 122 grams of material from the ast...
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Genesis Mission
Episode Date: May 19, 2026The Genesis Mission is a national effort to accelerate discovery by uniting AI, supercomputing, experiments, and the infrastructure of the national la...
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Energetic Materials
Episode Date: March 24, 2026Behind every safeguard of national security lies a world few ever see. Inside Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, scientists and engineers are red...
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Target Fabrication
Episode Date: March 10, 2026At the center of every experiment at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s National Ignition Facility is a target - a tiny, precisely engineered ob...
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24 Hour Operations
Episode Date: February 24, 2026The world’s most demanding science never sleeps. From facilities that operate around the clock to the people monitoring safety, power, and infrastruct...
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Discovery Science at NIF
Episode Date: February 10, 2026At Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s National Ignition Facility, scientists recreate the most extreme conditions in the universe. Through the D...
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Dark Matter
Episode Date: January 13, 2026Dark matter is one of the universe’s greatest mysteries. It’s the invisible force that glues galaxies together and sculpts cosmic structure. In this e...
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Offsite Assignments
Episode Date: December 16, 2025Every decision in national security hinges on knowledge, insight, and expertise - some of that expertise starts in a lab in Livermore. The Offsite Fel...
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Energy Flow Charts
Episode Date: December 2, 2025LLNL’s Energy Flow Charts have become one of the clearest ways to understand the nation’s energy system. Learn how these diagrams capture everything f...
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Advanced Lasers
Episode Date: September 23, 2025At Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, scientists are developing high-repetition-rate lasers that fire thousands of times per second. In this epis...
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Element Discovery
Episode Date: September 9, 2025Scientists are still adding to the periodic table and expanding what we know about matter. At Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, researchers are...
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World’s Largest Camera
Episode Date: August 26, 2025Supernovas, asteroids, dark matter, and dark energy… the universe is constantly changing. Today we’ll dive into how we track what’s shifting in the ni...
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Laser Guide Star
Episode Date: August 12, 2025For decades, Earth’s atmosphere has blurred images of both stars and galaxies, greatly restricting our ability to see the universe clearly from the gr...