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Cover of Materials Today journal with illustration of spheres and streak ending at hot spot
// Journal Covers
Demonstrates a multiscale simulation framework coupling that can quantitatively predict tailored microstructure formation in laser processed Ti-Nb.
Two rows of four images of graphs with complex curves
// Journal Covers
This study computationally explores using high-resolution inelastic x-ray scattering at x-ray free electron laser facilities to probe the temperature of a material in high-pressure shock or ramp compression.
Award title, above, with seven people facing camera below
// Recognition
For the fourth consecutive year, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has been honored with a Glassdoor Employees’ Choice Award, recognizing the Best Places to Work in 2022.
Drawing of Pandora (right), planet (center), and host star (left)
// S&T Highlights
NASA has approved the Pandora mission, co-led by the Goddard Space Flight Center and Livermore.
Three simulations of hundreds of proteins in sheets superimposed on image of supercomputer
// S&T Highlights
A multi-institutional team has developed a multiscale model revealing the importance of lipids to the signaling dynamics of RAS, a family of proteins whose mutations are linked to many cancers.
Richard Klein next to AAS logo
// Recognition
Livermore physicist Richard Klein has been selected as a 2022 fellow of the American Astronomical Society.
Firefighter walking through burned landscape, with tree on left
// S&T Highlights
Wildfires and prescribed burns, which can promote soil organic matter stability, may be an important nature-based climate solution to increase long-term carbon storage.
Diagram of virtual representations of cancer patients
// S&T Highlights
A multi-institutional team has proposed a framework for digital twin models of cancer patients.
Carbon dioxide laser with technician in bunny suit on left
// S&T Highlights
NIF’s lasers delivered slightly more than the requested 1.9 megajoules (MJ) of laser energy at 440 terawatts of peak power for the shot that produced a historic 1.35 megajoules of fusion energy.
Physicist Omar Hurricane
// Recognition
Omar Hurricane, chief scientist for the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory inertial confinement fusion program, is a recipient of the 2021 Edward Teller Award.