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The cryogenic-compatible X-ray, neutron and blast snout (CryoXNBS) safely houses material samples to be subjected to fusion ignition irradiation environments inside a solid double containment enclosure during a National Ignition Facility (NIF) experiment.
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LLNL conducts NIF experiment to assess the ability of U.S. nuclear weapons to survive encounters with adversary missile defenses and reach their targets. 

The diamond-shaped stamp used at the Y-12 National Security Complex to certify the First Production Unit of the W80-4 canned subassembly, a key milestone in the Life Extension Program.
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NNSA announces the diamond stamping of the first production unit of a canned subassembly for the W80-4 Life Extension Program will be achieved 18 months ahead of schedule.

Scientist Thomas Kruijer uses the thermal ionization mass spectrometry (TIMS) facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to analyze meteorite samples.
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LLNL scientist and collaborators describe how meteorites tell the story of the early solar system. 

Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the University of Texas at Austin’s Oden Institute and Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego on Nov. 20 were awarded the prestigious 2025 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Gordon Bell Prize for developing a real-time tsunami early warning framework powered by the world’s fastest supercomputer, El Capitan.
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LLNL researchers were among those awarded the prestigious 2025 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Gordon Bell Prize for developing a real-time tsunami early-warning framework.  

Researchers shed light on how memory T cells, which are crucial for lifelong immunity, live and persist in different parts of the body.
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In a recent study, LLNL scientists and collaborators explain how long memory T cells live and persist in different parts of the body.

Artist’s illustration of gold compressed to ultra-high pressures by laser pulses at the National Ignition Facility. X-rays scatter from the sample, producing diffraction patterns that reveal how its atomic structure changes under extreme compression.
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In a recent paper, LLNL researchers and collaborators conducted high-pressure experiments with gold.  

The newly discovered phase of water, Ice XXI, only forms from water under strong supercompression. It is the largest and most complex unit of any ice phase discovered so far.
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In a recent study, LLNL researchers explored how water freezes under extreme compression at room temperature.

Harrison Horn and collaborators used a laser-heated diamond-anvil cell to recreate the conditions that could exist on some exoplanets.
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In a recent study, an LLNL postdoctoral researcher demonstrates a novel pathway for producing significant quantities of water on sub-Neptune-sized exoplanets.

Researchers used Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s exascale supercomputer El Capitan to perform the largest fluid dynamics simulation ever — surpassing one quadrillion degrees of freedom in a single computational fluid dynamics problem. The team focused the effort on rocket–rocket plume interactions, achieving better than 500 trillion grid points, or 500 quadrillion degrees of freedom, in simulating the turbulent exhaust flow generated by many rocket engines firing simultaneously.
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Researchers used LLNL's exascale supercomputer El Capitan to perform the largest fluid dynamics simulation ever.

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s exascale El Capitan retained its ranking as the world’s fastest supercomputer with a verified 1.809 exaFLOPs (quintillion calculations per second) on the Top500 organization's High Performance Linpack benchmark. El Capitan’s smaller sibling system, Tuolumne, repeated at 12th on the list at 208.1 petaFLOPs (quadrillion calculations per second).
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LLNL's El Capitan once again claimed the top spot on the Top500 List of the world’s most powerful supercomputers.