“Roads to Removal: Options for Carbon Dioxide Removal in the United States,” charts a path for the United States to achieve a net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) economy by 2050.
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![Admiral Richard Mies donated the $25,000 honorarium received with the Foster Medal to the Livermore Lab Foundation. Mies presented LLF Chair Dona Crawford with a check at the Oct. 18 luncheon.](/sites/default/files/styles/news_item_image/public/2023-12/2023_AdmRichMies_FosterMedal_w%20Medal.jpg?h=480a6acc&itok=VeCJtcQ2)
In an award ceremony held last month at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), U.S. Navy Admiral Richard W. Mies was presented with the John S. Foster Jr.
![Group photo of event finalists and judges](/sites/default/files/styles/news_item_image/public/2023-12/2023_NLSLAM_PreEventGroupPhotos_6335.jpg?h=c4e74277&itok=VphMXu3V)
Gathered in the Congressional Auditorium on Wednesday, Nov. 15, 17 early-career researchers used three minutes and a single slide to present their pioneering research during the inaugural National Lab Research SLAM.
![Larry Pelz, Jean-Michel Di Nicola, and John Heebner pictured in the Master Oscillator Room](/sites/default/files/styles/news_item_image/public/2023-12/Master%20Oscillator%20Room_V02_875x500.jpg?h=f967cf33&itok=U45gKiET)
The National Ignition Facility (NIF) set a new record for laser energy on October 30th, firing
![Members of the Simple Cloud Resolving E3SM Atmosphere Model (SCREAM) team](/sites/default/files/styles/news_item_image/public/2023-12/SCREAM_GB-winner1_875x500.jpg?h=f967cf33&itok=kX1qWCIQ)
An LLNL-led effort simulating a global climate model on the world’s first exascale supercomputer has won the first-ever Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modelling.
![Sophiesized823-453 Ph.D. student Sophie Parsons conducts laser alignment work on an ultrafast pulse table-top laser system modified for sub-nanosecond shock compression and velocimet.](/sites/default/files/styles/news_item_image/public/2023-11/Screenshot%202023-11-15%20at%209.38.03%20AM.png?h=dbbb9b7e&itok=MSDuYRHo)
![The CuEXAFS target as mounted on the target positioner prior to insertion into the NIF target chamber. Photo by Luis Zeledon/LLNL.](/sites/default/files/styles/news_item_image/public/2023-11/Screenshot%202023-11-10%20at%2010.09.21%20AM.png?h=e6b5551c&itok=OXV5t7Te)
![Certain natural compounds, like a recently discovered family of proteins called lanmodulins (depicted in blue), strongly and selectively interact with the radioactive elements americium and curium (highlighted in green), rendering them much more soluble in groundwater than previously thought. This finding could impact the way we evaluate the dispersion of nuclear waste in the environment. (Illustration: Jeremy Gardner/LLNL)](/sites/default/files/styles/news_item_image/public/2023-11/Screenshot%202023-11-08%20at%209.12.46%20AM.png?h=716cc40b&itok=pM08HnrQ)
![A bacterial cell first having viruses attached (left), and then propagated (middle), and then lysed (right). (Image: Victor Leshyk/Northern Arizona University)](/sites/default/files/styles/news_item_image/public/2023-11/bacterial%20cell2.jpg?h=47177520&itok=3Ijo5Y0F)
New research from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientists and their collaborators at the University of California, Berkeley illuminates a fascinating phenomenon: the demise of soil bacteria and other unicellular microbes at