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![Two images (left) of uranium fuel pellet isotopic heterogeneity and graph showing uranium enrichment (right).](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20201218085638im_/https://st.llnl.gov/sites/default/files/styles/news_item_image/public/2020-12/forensicSignatures875x500px.jpg?h=26ad34ae&itok=txLC0tOP)
Livermore scientists identified nuclear forensic signatures from mock evidence in support of an international exercise simulating a nuclear smuggling investigation.
![Artist's conception of pancreas.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20201218085638im_/https://st.llnl.gov/sites/default/files/styles/news_item_image/public/2020-12/pancreas_875x500px.jpg?h=26ad34ae&itok=tmxf-Q_b)
Georgetown University, and Livermore scientists and collaborators have identified a protein that when removed from the body may help pancreatic cancer patients live longer.
![Dr. Kelly Humbird pictured with horse.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20201218085638im_/https://st.llnl.gov/sites/default/files/styles/news_item_image/public/2020-12/humbird875x500px_0.jpg?h=26ad34ae&itok=q7e35mxr)
Texas A&M University’s Department of Nuclear Engineering has honored Livermore physicist Kelli Humbird with its 2020–21 Young Former Student Award.
![Clouds at night illuminated from behind](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20201218085638im_/https://st.llnl.gov/sites/default/files/styles/news_item_image/public/2020-12/troposphere_875x500px.jpg?h=26ad34ae&itok=T0nP-ohx)
Livermore scientists found that climate models may have overestimated the decade-to-decade natural variability of temperature.
![Bronis de Supinski](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20201218085638im_/https://st.llnl.gov/sites/default/files/styles/news_item_image/public/2020-12/IEEE_875x500px.jpg?h=26ad34ae&itok=DTGxLBFa)
Bronis de Supinski, Livermore Computing’s chief technology officer, has been named an IEEE fellow.
![PowerPoint slide explaining robust machine learning](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20201218085638im_/https://st.llnl.gov/sites/default/files/styles/news_item_image/public/2020-12/machineLearning_875x500px.jpg?h=9b087389&itok=tFXzo3NQ)
The 34th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) is featuring two papers advancing the reliability of deep learning for mission-critical applications.
![Multiphysics simulation of laser-induced melting of stainless steel (top); cross-sections of laser tracks in stainless steel (bottom)](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20201218085638im_/https://st.llnl.gov/sites/default/files/styles/news_item_image/public/2020-12/emissions_875x500px.jpg?h=26ad34ae&itok=d15rj7Oi)
Livermore scientists simulated the droplet ejection process in an emerging metal 3D printing technique called “liquid metal jetting.”
![Three atmospheric black carbon maps](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20201218085638im_/https://st.llnl.gov/sites/default/files/styles/news_item_image/public/2020-11/maps-875x500px.jpg?h=26ad34ae&itok=MCT0WX13)
A team of Livermore scientists has modeled the global climatic consequences of a regional nuclear weapons exchange.
![Architected 3D electrodes](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20201218085638im_/https://st.llnl.gov/sites/default/files/styles/news_item_image/public/2020-11/UCSC_Yat%20Li_875x500px_0.jpg?h=26ad34ae&itok=Yhoa9_sq)
A research team has developed a 3D-printed electrode that lessens the problems that occur with gas bubbles that are generated during water electrolysis.
![The Blue Gene/L supercomputer](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20201218085638im_/https://st.llnl.gov/sites/default/files/styles/news_item_image/public/2020-11/bluegene_875x500px.jpg?h=26ad34ae&itok=u976Cph_)
A team of current and former Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and IBM scientists won the annual “Test of Time” award at the 2020 Supercomputing Conference.