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Liz Grace works on the STRIPED FISH ultrashort pulse laser diagnostic
// Recognition

Elizabeth Grace, the High Energy Density Science (HEDS) Center Fellow at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, has won a 2023 Springer Thesis Award for her work in short-pulse laser physics.

Design physicist Annie Kritcher is named to TIME100 list
// Recognition

Time has named Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory design physicist Andrea “Annie” Kritcher to its annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world.

Image of uranium listing on periodic table
// S&T Highlights

The different forms of uranium, known as allotropic forms, are of great interest to scientists.

Front view of the assembled Legacy Survey of Space and Time camera
// S&T Highlights

A Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory engineer is among those sharing a Department of Energy award for contri

Presenation at Kavli Frontiers of Science symposium
// Recognition

Staff scientists Alison Christopherson and Art Pak have been elected Kavli fellows of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS).

Women looking at computer code cards
// A Look Back
Programmable electronic computers gradually supplanted human computers over the course of the 1950s, but women found ways to remain in the new field of computing.
Cover of Fundamental Research in High Energy Density Science report
// S&T Highlights

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine released a report, Fundamental Research in High Energy Density Science

photo of contracted cargo mission launch
// S&T Highlights

A prototype telescope designed and built by LLNL researchers has been launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla., to the International Space Station (ISS).

Artist's depiction of an ion-water cluster traveling at high speed through a carbon nanotube channel
// S&T Highlights

Scientists at LLNL and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have found that a noted f

Rendering of an electrode that converts nitrogen (NO3) from agricultural runoff into ammonia (Cl)
// S&T Highlights

A new study led by the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and researchers from LLNL demonstrates an approach for the integrated capture and conversion of nitrate-contaminated waters into valuable ammonia within a single electrochemical cell.