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Man receiving award from woman
// Recognition
In recognition of more than 40 years of service to the U.S. Air Force, Department of Energy and National Nuclear Security Administration, Tom Gioconda, who recently stepped down as deputy director of the Lab, has been awarded the NNSA Administrator’s Gold Medal.
Several people look at computer screen
// Recognition
A wargame developed by University of California, Berkeley students, with a helping hand from Lawrence Livermore and Sandia national laboratories researchers, won first place at an international conference.
Three researchers in front of U.S. map and turbine
// S&T Highlights
A trio of Livermore scientists have served as co-authors for three separate papers about projects they’ve worked on to upgrade wind power forecasting for the nation.
Three scientists looking at Movie Mode Dynamic Transmission Electron Microscope
// S&T Highlights
A multi-institutional research team has successfully obtained the first nanoscale video of copper deforming under extremely high strain rates.
Scientist holds chip-based platform
// S&T Highlights
Lawrence Livermore researchers are one step closer to recapitulating the brain’s response to both biochemical and mechanical cues in a chip-based platform.
Close-up of mosquito
// S&T Highlights
A research team has found that outbreaks of human disease, such as the 2015 Zika virus epidemic, may be due to genetic mutation, and viruses may undergo further changes as they expand their geographic range.
STAR (Sample Test and Recovery) array and space ship
// S&T Highlights
The STAR (Sample Test and Recovery) array was developed to measure shock velocity and heating in up to 16 material samples irradiated with x rays.
Artist's conception of the dust and gas surrounding a newly formed planetary system.
// S&T Highlights
Livermore scientists and a collaborator reviewed recent work that shows how meteorites exhibit a fundamental isotopic dichotomy between non-carbonaceous and carbonaceous groups,
Livermore mechanical technicians pose in front of the gas recirculation plant they built, December 1967​​​​​​.​
// A Look Back

On Dec. 10, 1967, Project Gasbuggy was conducted in a sandstone gas-bearing formation in the San Juan Basin near Farmington, New Mexico.

Federica Coppari with an x-ray diffraction image plate
// Recognition
Laboratory research scientist Federica Coppari was named a New Leader in Space Science by the U.S. and Chinese academies of sciences.