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LLNL employees participate in a fireside chat
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Celebrating International Women’s Day on March 8, data scientists, Lab employees, and other attendees gathered at the Livermore Valley Open Campus for the annual Livermore Women in Data Science (WiDS) regional event held in conjunction with the global WiDS

Illustration of NASA’s DART spacecraft and the Italian Space Agency’s (ASI) LICIACube prior to impact at the Didymos binary system. Image courtesy of NASA/Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory/Steve Gribben.
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The first peer-reviewed results from NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission were published Wednesday by Nature, including contributions from LLNL’s planetary defense team.
Lab 70th anniversary lattice printed by Gabe Guss
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LLNL engineers and scientists have developed a method for detecting and predicting strut defects in 3D-printed metal lattice structures during a print through a combination of monitoring, imaging techniques and multi-physics simulations.
image of a black hole
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A new review of the current breakthroughs in the creation of electron-positron pair plasma, its main challenges and the future of the field, co-authored authored by LLNL physicist Hui Chen appears in Physics of Plasmas
photo of IBM 704 computer at LLNL in 1956
// A Look Back
LLNL mathematician helps FORTRAN became the first computer language standard, opening the door to modern computing.
Front covers of the journals Nature Chemistry and Inorganic Chemistry
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A new approach developed at LLNL allows for the study of radioactive and/or precious elements in a much more efficient way, requiring 1,000 times less materials than previous state-of-the-art methods, without compromising the data quality.
LLNL researchers Fady Najjar and Garry Maskaly
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New research led by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory provides a better understanding of ejecta production, which has been the subject of broad interest for more than 60 years throughout the scientific community.
Serac wrapper created this multi-material design
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Engineers at LLNL have taken major strides towards closing the gap between the Lab’s manufacturing and design capabilities.
DOE Secretary's Achievement Awards art
// Recognition
LLNL employees, participating in five project teams, recently earned Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary’s Honor Achievement Awards.
Image of MgB2 crystallites
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A collaboration including scientists from LLNL, Sandia National Laboratories, the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has created 3-4 nanometer ultrathin nanosheets of a metal hydride that increase hydrogen storage capacity.