ALT Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's "Big Ideas Lab" logo and description. The logo features the words "big ideas lab" with a light bulb above the letter "i." The description reads: "From the origins of LLNL to our latest scientific achievements, the Big Ideas Lab podcast tells the stories of how the Lab has impacted our community, science and technology, national security and the world."

ALT Map of the United States highlighting California in yellow. The text reads "Creating Partnerships Across the U.S." and includes financial information about collaborations in California. The sidebar details partnerships with universities and labs such as the University of California system, California State University system, Stanford University, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and others, totaling $265,912,000 in state spending, $120,074,000 with small businesses, and $11,323,000 value of university contracts.

ALT Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory recently hosted NNSA Deputy Administrator Matthew Napoli for a tour of the Laboratory. Back row from left to right: Melinda Lane, Chad Giacomozzi, Lauren Lafaro and Lee Glascoe. Front row, from left to right: Tom Grim, Florence Tindle, Mattew Napoli, Huban Gowadia and Amy Waters.

ALT Napoli toured the National Ignition Facility, which is a cornerstone of the experimental element of stockpile modernization. Principal Associate Director for the National Ignition Facility and Photon Science Directorate Vincent Tang led the tour.

ALT Napoli toured the National Ignition Facility, which is a cornerstone of the experimental element of stockpile modernization. Principal Associate Director for the National Ignition Facility and Photon Science Directorate Vincent Tang led the tour.

ALT microphone, podcast logo, and Genesis Mission logo on a blue patterned background

ALT blue lines connecting in a circle and leading into graphic representations of neural networks

ALT The image features the phrase "big ideas lab" with "big" in large blue letters, detailed with scientific sketches and a glowing lightbulb above. "Ideas lab" is in smaller orange text below. The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory logo is at the bottom left.

ALT Viewing the flexible imaging diffraction diagnostic for laser experiments (FIDDLE) from this angle highlights five hybrid complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (hCMOS) sensors (rectangular objects near the center) that record x-ray diffraction patterns from compression experiments at the National Ignition Facility (NIF). The Livermore team custom-designed FIDDLE to house and shield the hCMOS sensors while withstanding the extreme conditions generated by NIF experiments. FIDDLE’s imaging system uses up to eight hCMOS sensors situated approximately 50 millimeters away from the tested material sample, which is held by the self-shielding target. High-energy drive beams (red) compress the material over tens of nanoseconds while backlighter beams (blue) generate a bright flash of x-rays that diffract through the material to produce x-ray diagnostic signals.