What happens when additive manufacturing meets target fabrication engineering? An impossibly small, sub-millimeter scale cone that can be manufactured 10 times faster than before, enabling new target configurations for experiments at LLNL’s National Ignition Facility (NIF).

At LLNL, researchers are deploying emulators to shorten that timeline and provide faster and more accurate weather predictions, months to years into the future.

At LLNL, researchers are asking an important question: how does the microbiome affect human health? To accomplish this goal, Laboratory scientists are deploying tailor-made machine-learning tools on microbiome data.

A gamma-ray spectrometer developed by a team of scientists and engineers at LLNL is on the world’s first sample return mission to the Martian sphere.

To understand interiors across planet types, researchers need to know exactly how magnesium oxide responds to extreme pressures and temperatures. Now, after nearly 12 years of investigation, a study from LLNL and Johns Hopkins University has solved that problem.

Wei Jia Ong, a staff scientist at LLNL, was named a 2026 recipient of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science Early Career Research Program award.

LLNL scientist Andrea L. Kritcher was named one of nine recipients of the prestigious 2026 Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award for exceptional contributions in research and development supporting the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) missions in science, energy and national security.

LLNL researchers are developing three-dimensional simulations to examine how a nuclear device could be used to deflect or potentially disrupt an asteroid threatening Earth.

A multi-institutional team from the U.S. Department of Energy’s DIII-D National Fusion Facility, including Filippo Scotti from LLNL, recently won the John Dawson Award for Excellence in Plasma Physics Research from the American Physical Society for substantially advancing a “flipped” approach for fusion.

LLNL's Innovation and Partnerships Office (IPO) Business Development Executive Clarence Cannon received the Department of Energy’s Technology Transfer Working Group (TTWG) Best in Class award for non-federal partnering.