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Gold aerogel on top of mosquito
// Journal Covers
Research team reports the fabrication of ultralight gold aerogel monoliths with tunable densities and pore structures.
Microbe capsules
// S&T Highlights
To help increase the U.S. supply of rare earth elements, researchers are using microbe beads to recover rare earth elements from consumer electronic waste.
Six people standing on stage
// Recognition
A panel of judges at the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC19) awarded a multi-institutional team led by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory computer scientists with the conference’s Best Paper award.
Teller and Reagan
// A Look Back

In 1967, Ronald Reagan, former movie star and then newly-elected governor of California, visited the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory in Livermore, California to tour the facility and become more informed about major ongoing projects, including work on national defense.

Two men holding award plaques
// Recognition
Livermore, along with the Oak Ridge and Argonne national laboratories and Cray Inc., garnered HPCwire Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards for Top Supercomputing Achievement for 2019.
Lab director giving talk at meeting
// Recognition
Three teams of Lawrence Livermore scientists, each supported by a Laboratory business development executive, netted regional awards for technology transfer from the Federal Laboratory Consortium.
Schematic diagram of "Frustraum"
// S&T Highlights
An angular hohlraum named “Frustraum” could become a key to the next stages of ICF research at the National Ignition Facility.
laser beam hitting metal
// Journal Covers
A research team used high‐speed X‐ray imaging to probe subsurface melt pool dynamics and void‐formation mechanisms inaccessible to other monitoring approaches in laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) metal additive manufacturing.
National Ignition Facility target chamber
// S&T Highlights
A research team has demonstrated that lead — a metal so soft that it is difficult to machine at ambient conditions — responds similarly to other much stronger metals when rapidly compressed at high pressure.
Scientist posing with another scientist on stage
// Recognition
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has won The Laser Institute (LIA)’s inaugural William M. Steen Award for the Academic & Public Sector.