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Ricardo Monge Neria from Case Western Reserve University, Andrew Marino from the Colorado School of Mines and Anthony Stewart from the University of Washington will arrive at the Lab this summer to start their fellowships.
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Three graduate students have earned Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Program awards to perform postdoctoral research at LLNL.

LLNL researchers and collaborators observed a phase transition in magnesium oxide that is believed to reside in the interiors of Super-Earths, planets with masses and radii larger than Earth but smaller than ice giants like Neptune.
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LLNL researchers and collaborators unlock new secrets about the interiors of super-Earth exoplanets, potentially revolutionizing our understanding of these distant worlds.

In the Arctic Ocean, sea ice reached its minimum extent of 1.44 million square miles (3.74 million square kilometers) on Sept. 15, 2020 - the second lowest extent since modern record-keeping began.
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LLNL scientist and collaborators find the unique temperature trend patterns associated with natural climate variability for 1980–2022.

In a milestone for supercomputing-aided drug design, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and BridgeBio Oncology Therapeutics today announced clinical trials have begun for a first-in-class medication that targets specific genetic mutations implicated in many types of cancer. The drug discovery work was powered by LLNL supercomputers Ruby (shown), Quartz and Lassen.
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LLNL and BridgeBio announce the commencement of clinical trials for a first-in-class medication that targets specific genetic mutations implicated in many types of cancer.

A team of scientists from Lawrence Berkeley and Lawrence Livermore national laboratories have determined the 71Ge half-life with a set of carefully performed measurements. The research appears in the journal Physical Review C.
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Lawrence Berkeley and Lawrence Livermore national laboratories determine the 71Ge half-life with a set of carefully performed measurements.

Wei Li and Xavier Mayali used the NanoSims to measure nitrogen incorporation and exchange at single cell resolution of harmful algal blooms from Lake Erie.
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LLNL scientists and collaborators investigate several Microcystis cultures collected from algal blooms in Lake Erie.

Left to right: LLNL researchers Jimmy Shen, Lars Voss and Joel Varley have software that can efficiently and effectively automate and analyze point defects in materials.
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LLNL researchers create software that can efficiently and effectively automate and analyze point defects in crystalline materials. 

An artistic impression of WASP-107b.
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A LLNL scientist and international collaborators have characterized the atmosphere of the exoplanet, WASP-107b, using a transmission spectroscopy technique.

Elizabeth Grace (LLNL, right) and Filip Grepl (ELI Beamlines, left) assemble the PROBIES diagnostic, one of many instruments that fed data to the machine-learning optimizer algorithm.
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LLNL international scientists and collaborators collaborate on an experiment to optimize a high-intensity, high-repetition-rate laser using machine learning.  

Amanda Randles, recipient of the 2023 ACM Prize in Computing.
// Recognition

Amanda Randles was recognized for groundbreaking contributions to computational health with the 2023 ACM Prize in Computing.