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Four researchers view screen
// Recognition
A shape memory foam material developed by Lawrence Livermore researchers is the foundation of a lifesaving medical device that has won a national technology transfer award.
Geophysical Research Letters cover
// Journal Covers
Researchers synthesize methane hydrate and measure its electrical conductivity to aid in estimating hydrate concentration on the seafloor.
Model of the capsule in a laser-irradiated hohlraum (left) and calculated reduction of radiation flux on the capsule in a 3-window hohlraum
// S&T Highlights
Data correlating two factors that lead to implosion asymmetries have brought LLNL scientists a step closer to understanding the gap between simulations and performance of inertial confinement fusion experiments.
Monique Warren
// Recognition
Warren works to ensure that the water we use stays safe and clean by analyzing and designing technologies for groundwater remediation.
Visualization of blood vessel
// S&T Highlights
Livermore scientists have paired 3D-printed, living human brain vasculature with advanced computational flow simulations to better understand tumor cell attachment to blood vessels.
Antarctic iceberg
// S&T Highlights
Researchers find that more than 50 percent of the world’s oceans already could be impacted by climate change.
X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy data and electron microscope image of nickel copper alloy catalysts
// S&T Highlights
A research team optimizes catalyst performance by studying the effect of pretreatment-induced nanoscale structural and compositional changes on catalyst activity and long-term stability.
W. Lawrence Gates, the chief scientist and first leader of LLNL’s PCMDI.
// A Look Back

The end of World War II heralded an era of population growth throughout the nation and especially in the State of California, where many returning soldiers and their families settled.

Earthquake simulation
// S&T Highlights
A Livermore team has published new supercomputer simulations of a magnitude 7.0 earthquake on the Hayward Fault, the highest-ever resolution ground motion simulations on this scale.
Richard Leach
// Recognition
SPIE, the International Society for Optics and Photonics, elected Livermore research engineer Richard Leach as a senior member.