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Portrait photos of seven people
// Recognition
The 2023 Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics/Association for Computing Machinery Prize in Computational Science and Engineering has been awarded to the team behind the Livermore-developed SUNDIALS software suite.
Illustration of soil, vertical strips, with viruses (polygonal shapes) below
// S&T Highlights
New research suggests that grassland viral communities are highly spatially stratified across just a single field.
2022 Distinguished Members of Technical Staff
// Director's Awards

Twenty-six LLNL researchers have been named Distinguished Members of Technical Staff (DMTS) for their extraordinary scientific and technical contributions, as acknowledged by their professional peers and the broader scientific community.

Illustration of a linear jet of particles emerging from black hole (red circle surrounding black interior)
// S&T Highlights
A new National Ignition Facility Discovery Science campaign is designed to simulate the type of photoionized plasma found in accretion disks and the surrounding stellar wind.
Mark Miller and Peer-Timo Bremer
// Recognition
Two Livermore-led teams received SciVis Test of Time awards for papers that have achieved lasting relevancy in the field of scientific visualization.
Artist's conception of water molecules flowing through cylindrical nanotube formed by carbon atoms
// S&T Highlights
To transform the way energy is collected, stored, and used, the Office of Basic Energy Sciences (BES) awarded Livermore and collaborators three energy-focused projects.
Man working behind lab bench with metal boxesm tubes, wires.
// S&T Highlights
Spiral phase mirrors, when incorporated into a laser system, will enable scientists to “twist” the laser light and generate an optical vortex.
Astronaut inside space station surrounded by equipment reaching up
// S&T Highlights
A five-year microbial study of the International Space Station and its astronauts by Lawrence Livermore and NASA researchers has found that the ISS habitat is safe for its residents.
Artist's conception of cylinders formed by molecules
// S&T Highlights
Livermore scientists are scaling up the production of vertically aligned single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNT) that could revolutionize a diverse set of commercial products.
Covers of six IPCC reports
// Recognition
The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, to which LLNL climate scientists have contributed, was jointly awarded the Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity.