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Illustration of laser beams entering cylinder-shaped container at both ends
// S&T Highlights
Researchers at Livermore have discovered that ions behave differently in fusion reactions than previously expected.
Four square images of polygonal metal grains
// S&T Highlights
Livermore scientists studied "dwell fatigue," a peculiar failure mode can initiate microscopic cracks that drastically reduce a component's lifetime, such as titanium aircraft parts.
Three scientists standing next to table, one holding pipette
// S&T Highlights
Research suggests that immune responses could be bolstered by drugs to help people recover from brain infections caused by an emerging pathogen, according to studies of the emerging pathogen Rift Valley fever virus.
Portrait photos of Felicie Albert and Craig Siders
// Recognition
Livermore scientists Félicie Albert and Craig Siders have been selected as fellows of Optica (formerly OSA).
192 high-energy laser beams converge at the center of the Target Chamber
// S&T Highlights
A record high-laser-energy NIF target shot on Sept. 19 produced about 1.2 million joules of fusion energy yield.
Portrait photos of seven people
// Recognition
The 2023 Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics/Association for Computing Machinery Prize in Computational Science and Engineering has been awarded to the team behind the Livermore-developed SUNDIALS software suite.
Illustration of soil, vertical strips, with viruses (polygonal shapes) below
// S&T Highlights
New research suggests that grassland viral communities are highly spatially stratified across just a single field.
2022 Distinguished Members of Technical Staff
// Director's Awards

Twenty-six LLNL researchers have been named Distinguished Members of Technical Staff (DMTS) for their extraordinary scientific and technical contributions, as acknowledged by their professional peers and the broader scientific community.

Illustration of a linear jet of particles emerging from black hole (red circle surrounding black interior)
// S&T Highlights
A new National Ignition Facility Discovery Science campaign is designed to simulate the type of photoionized plasma found in accretion disks and the surrounding stellar wind.
Mark Miller and Peer-Timo Bremer
// Recognition
Two Livermore-led teams received SciVis Test of Time awards for papers that have achieved lasting relevancy in the field of scientific visualization.