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Photo of Doerfert
// Recognition
LLNL computer scientist Johannes Doerfert was recently named one of the 2023 Better Scientific Software (BSSw) fellows, a government-funded program providing recognition and funding to leaders and advocates of high-quality scientific software.
The ANISO team is pictured at the Idaho National Laboratory’s National Security Test Range (NSTR) shot arena with a proof-of-principle stack of 8 linerless C-4 shaped charges.
// S&T Highlights
LLNL scientists and engineers led a multi-institutional team in executing a series of high explosives tests that successfully demonstrated fundamental principles of anisotropy, a possible enabler for improved weapon and munition safety.
artistic rendering of networked devices
// S&T Highlights

Skywing, a new software developed at LLNL, provides scientists working to protect the nation’s critical infrastructure with a high-reliability, real-time software platform for collaborative autonomy applications.

Head shots of all four winners
// Recognition
The Oppenheimer Science and Energy Leadership Program (OSELP) has selected four Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientists as 2023 fellows.
Photo of Daniel Schwalbe-Koda and Forbes logo
// Recognition
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory materials scientist Daniel Schwalbe-Koda has been named one of Forbes “30 under 30” for 2023 in the science category.
Photo of de Supinski and ACM logo
// Recognition
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has named LLNL’s Chief Technology Officer for Livermore Computing Bronis R. de Supinski as a 2022 ACM fellow, recognizing him for his contributions to the design of large-scale systems and their programming systems and software.
Illustration of ignition at NIF
// S&T Highlights
The U.S. Department of Energy and DOE’s National Nuclear Security Administration announced the achievement of fusion ignition at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
Photograph and schematic representation of single-walled carbon nanotubes
// S&T Highlights

Researchers have created vertically aligned single-walled carbon nanotubes that could be a boon for energy storage and the electronics industry.

 Greenland today 120722 An artist’s reconstruction of the landscape surrounding the Kap København formation
// S&T Highlights

An international team reports the oldest ancient environmental DNA record to date, describing the rich plant and animal assemblages of the Kap København Formation in north Greenland

Optical photograph taken during a laser-driven compression and nanosecond X-ray diffraction experiment
// S&T Highlights

In new research published in Physical Review B, LLNL scientists report on a series of X-ray diffraction experiments on five metals dynamically compressed to 600 GPa (6,000,000 atmospheres of pressure).