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From left to right: Teal Pershing, Jimmy Kingston, Rachel Mannino, Ethan Bernard and Jingke Xu stand with the “XeNu” (Xe-Neutron) setup that calibrates LZ-style dark matter detectors.
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LLNL scientists contribute to figuring out the nature of dark matter using the world’s most sensitive dark matter detector, LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ).  

 

Under one of LLNL’s 2024 DOE Technology Commercialization Fund grants, Simon Pang (left) and Wenquin Li (right) will lead a team of researchers to collaborate in an effort to optimize site locations of carbon dioxide removal facilities.
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LLNL researchers continue to capture key DOE grants focused on funding projects aimed at delivering clean energy solutions to the market. 

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientists and engineers, including Aldair Gorgora (right) and Timothy Yee are addressing longstanding challenges in 3D-printed lattice structures by using machine learning and artificial intelligence to accelerate lattice designs optimized with unprecedented speed and efficiency.
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LLNL scientists and engineers look to incorporating machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence to accelerate design of lattice structures.

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s Zhi Liao has been elected as a senior member of SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics.
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LLNL Zhi Liao has been elected as a senior member of SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics. 

LLNL’s Brent Stuart and Paul Armstrong have been named Optica senior members.
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LLNL researchers have been named senior members of Optica in recognition for more than 10 years of professional experience in optics or an optics-related field.

LLNL scientist Alan Hidy used the Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry to study fossils from Greenland.
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LLNL researchers and collaborators examine Iceland's core to discover clear evidence of ice-free times.

LLNL researchers combined phase-field simulations (background), topological feature extraction (inside the magnifying glass, showing a pore-size analysis), property calculations and machine learning analysis to uncover the microstructure-property relationship in polymeric porous materials.
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LLNL scientists develop an efficient and comprehensive computational framework to decipher implications of porous microstructures and their properties.

Wenyu Sun, Aditya Prajapati and Jeremy Feaster in the lab where their research takes place.
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Using thin film nickel anodes, a team of LLNL scientists and collaborators figure out how to clean up chemical production.

Joe Ralph, co-lead author and inertial confinement fusion research physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, discusses the critical role of implosion symmetry in achieving a burning plasma state at the National Ignition Facility.
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LLNL researchers retrospectively confirm that implosion asymmetry was a major aspect for fusion experiments.

Femtosecond X-ray diffraction of laser shocked aluminum-zirconium metals.
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LLNL scientists use ultra-fast X-ray probes to track the thermal response of aluminum and zirconium on shock release from experiments.