Big Ideas Lab
Hosted by Dr Anya Sharma · Mission.org
4.9from 132 ratings
- 61
- Episodes
- 45
- Transcribed
- 132
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2024
- First episode
About Big Ideas Lab
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.
- Publisher
- Mission.org
- Category
- government · history · science
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 3 Sept 2024
- Latest episode
- 15 Sept 2026
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45 of 61 episodes have a transcript.
15 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
CODA Telescope
1 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Science of Scale-Up
18 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
NIF Diagnostics
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CODA Telescope
Published 15 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] At the scale these telescopes operate, with targets light years away, even tiny shifts can throw the system off. So part of the clever design and engineering of CODA was that the optical and mechanical prescriptions, the design, was such that everything grew and shrank at the same rates. It's a generalization, but the system remained in focus as it varied in temperature. The team turned the problem into a design constraint. If aluminum moves, everything that matters needs to move with it. So that was a really big benefit then of how you're able to actually use this highly manufacturable material, but that is not stable. […]
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