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LLNL’s Rebecca Toomey (left) has been recognized with the Division of Nuclear Physics’ Distinguished Service Award, presented by Jim Napolitano (right), the current chair of the division.
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Rebecca Toomey, an LLNL postdoctoral research scientist, has been recognized with the American Physical Society Division of Nuclear Physics’ Distinguished Service Award. 

The LUX-ZEPLIN main detector in a surface lab before installation underground.
// S&T Highlights

The newest results from LUX-ZEPLIN extend the experiment’s search for low-mass dark matter and set world-leading limits on one of the prime dark matter candidates.

Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and their collaborators developed a new process for magnet fabrication that skips two major, energy-intensive steps and doesn’t produce harmful byproducts.
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LLNL researchers and collaborators develop a new process for neodymium magnet fabrication. 

LLNL scientists Jeremy Feaster and Steven Hawks are collaborating on a process to convert wastewater into clean water and recovered fertilizer. Here they hold the electrochemical reactor for the final step of the process.
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LLNL researchers are developing a process to convert wastewater into clean water and recycled fertilizer. 

The cryogenic-compatible X-ray, neutron and blast snout (CryoXNBS) safely houses material samples to be subjected to fusion ignition irradiation environments inside a solid double containment enclosure during a National Ignition Facility (NIF) experiment.
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LLNL conducts NIF experiment to assess the ability of U.S. nuclear weapons to survive encounters with adversary missile defenses and reach their targets. 

The diamond-shaped stamp used at the Y-12 National Security Complex to certify the First Production Unit of the W80-4 canned subassembly, a key milestone in the Life Extension Program.
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NNSA announces the diamond stamping of the first production unit of a canned subassembly for the W80-4 Life Extension Program will be achieved 18 months ahead of schedule.

Scientist Thomas Kruijer uses the thermal ionization mass spectrometry (TIMS) facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to analyze meteorite samples.
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LLNL scientist and collaborators describe how meteorites tell the story of the early solar system. 

Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the University of Texas at Austin’s Oden Institute and Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego on Nov. 20 were awarded the prestigious 2025 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Gordon Bell Prize for developing a real-time tsunami early warning framework powered by the world’s fastest supercomputer, El Capitan.
// Recognition

LLNL researchers were among those awarded the prestigious 2025 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Gordon Bell Prize for developing a real-time tsunami early-warning framework.  

Researchers shed light on how memory T cells, which are crucial for lifelong immunity, live and persist in different parts of the body.
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In a recent study, LLNL scientists and collaborators explain how long memory T cells live and persist in different parts of the body.

Artist’s illustration of gold compressed to ultra-high pressures by laser pulses at the National Ignition Facility. X-rays scatter from the sample, producing diffraction patterns that reveal how its atomic structure changes under extreme compression.
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In a recent paper, LLNL researchers and collaborators conducted high-pressure experiments with gold.