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![LLNL research staff member Bhavya Kailkhura has been elevated to the grade of Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the highest grade for which IEEE members can apply.](/sites/default/files/styles/news_item_image/public/2023-11/Screenshot%202023-11-08%20at%209.15.50%20AM.png?h=99f3ed64&itok=Qs5IUIgK)
![Image of Jean Michel Di Nicola and Peter “Jeff” Wisoff and OPTIMA logo](/sites/default/files/styles/news_item_image/public/2023-11/Screenshot%202023-11-07%20at%209.35.50%20AM.png?h=4e105510&itok=eJixxnb_)
![A bacterial cell first having viruses attached (left), and then propagated (middle), and then lysed (right). (Image: Victor Leshyk/Northern Arizona University)](/sites/default/files/styles/news_item_image/public/2023-11/bacterial%20cell2.jpg?h=47177520&itok=3Ijo5Y0F)
New research from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientists and their collaborators at the University of California, Berkeley illuminates a fascinating phenomenon: the demise of soil bacteria and other unicellular microbes at
![Headshots of Ibo Matthews and Frank Graziani](/sites/default/files/styles/news_item_image/public/2023-11/2023%20APS%20fellows_V02_875x500.jpg?h=47177520&itok=8GyP-fTp)
Livermore scientists Manyalibo “Ibo” Matthews and Frank Graziani have been named 2023 American Physical Society (APS) fellows.
![LLNL team members look over a prototype of the gamma-ray spectrometer](/sites/default/files/styles/news_item_image/public/2023-11/2023_GammaRaySpectrometer_MorganBurks_5112.jpg?h=47177520&itok=dS3J2oV1)
An instrument designed and built by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers departed Earth last week on a two-billion-mile, nearly six-year journey through space to explore a rare, largely metal asteroid.
![August 2023 issue of Advanced Science](/sites/default/files/styles/news_item_image/public/2023-11/Advanced%20Science%20Mag%20cover.png?h=ad16e0a2&itok=e3MyV5r9)
Livermore researchers have adapted their novel metasurface process, which creates a thin layer on the surface of an optic, to create an all-glass metasurface with birefringence, or dual refraction, properties.
![ncient human footprints found in White Sands National Park, New Mexico. Image courtesy of USGS.](/sites/default/files/styles/news_item_image/public/2023-11/human%20footrprints_875x500.jpg?h=47177520&itok=QD4j45ZX)
New research reaffirms that human footprints found in White Sands National Park, New Mexico, date to the Last Glacial Maximum, placing humans in North America thousands of years earlier than once thought. In September 2021, U.S.
![LLNL physicist Nino Landen has received a 2023 Edward Teller Award, which comes with an engraved silver medal.](/sites/default/files/styles/news_item_image/public/2023-09/Screenshot%202023-09-29%20at%2010.16.59%20AM.png?h=5b8d5332&itok=be64k5Mn)