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Michael R. Anastasio has been awarded Livermore’s 2025 John S. Foster Medal.
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Director Kim Budil announced that the 2025 John S. Foster, Jr. Medal is awarded to Michael R. Anastasio, former director of both LLNL and Los Alamos National Laboratory. 

The American Physical Society has recognized Wei Jia Ong, a staff scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, as the recipient of the 2025 Stuart Jay Freedman Award in Experimental Nuclear Physics.
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Wei Jia Ong, an LLNL staff scientist, has been recognized as the recipient of the APS 2025 Stuart Jay Freedman Award in Experimental Nuclear Physics.

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory scientists used the Advanced Light Source, shown here, to develop a new technique in nuclear forensics.
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In a recent study, LLNL and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory scientists described how synchrotron-based scanning transmission X-ray microscopy (STXM) can identify chemical states and material impurities at the scale of individual particles. 

Artist’s rendering of a possible inertial fusion energy power plant.
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The DOE announces $134 million in funding for two programs designed to secure U.S. leadership in emerging fusion technologies and innovation. 

Close-up of the surface of laser powder bed fusion (LBPF), a metal additive manufacturing (AM) process where a laser uses heat to fuse metal powder material and form structures.
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LLNL researchers are tackling this challenge by developing first-of-their-kind approaches to look at how materials and structures evolve inside a metal AM structure during printing. 

From left: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Materials Science Division (MSD) researcher Juergen Biener, Materials Engineering Division(MED) staff engineer Abhinav Parakh, physicist Kristi Beck, physics postdoctoral researcher Sayan Patra, and MED staff engineer Xiaoxing Xia.
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LLNL researchers and collaborators miniaturize quadrupole ion traps for the first time with 3D printing. 

A schematic of the SAPPHIRE diagnostic. The top half of a chirped laser beam passes through plasma, while the bottom half does not. Separating and recombining the beam creates interference patterns (right) that show how the plasma changes with time.
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In a study published in Optica, LLNL researchers developed a new diagnostic that captures plasma evolution in time and space with a single laser shot. 

MIT Technology Review has named Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) research scientist Xiaoxing Xia as one of its 2025 Innovators Under 35 — a global list honoring early-career researchers and entrepreneurs who are shaping the future of science and technology.
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MIT Technology Review has named LLNL research scientist Xiaoxing Xia as one of its 2025 Innovators Under 35.

Samples of algae were taken from the Eel River (left) and measured with NanoSIMS (center). The results, right, demonstrate that a symbiotic bacterium fixes nitrogen inside the algae.
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LLNL researchers and collaborators investigated a California river ecosystem and found a nitrogen-fixing bacterium that acts like a proto-organelle.

LLNL physicist Hye-Sook Park was honored for her pioneering high-energy-density experimental work with the American Nuclear Society’s Edward Teller Award.
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LLNL physicist Hye-Sook Park wins the Edward Teller Award by the American Nuclear Society.