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Berkeley Lab’s Connections to the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics

Alt Text: In the snow at the South Pole, a person in a bright red parka walks toward an enclosed, two-layered scientific facility with a system of criss-crossing black ladders on the side, and it's sitting on top of suspension girders and suspended between two (2) three-story-tall white towers.

Francis Halzen wins 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics for IceCube neutrino research

An IceCube digital optical module attached to it’s cable, ready to be lowered 2.4 kilometers into its final location in the South Polar icecap. The sensor electronics were designed and built at Berkeley Lab. Photographer: Spencer Klein, Berkeley Lab

From Design to Data Analysis: Engineering Celebrates LUX-ZEPLIN Result

LUX-ZEPLIN’s central detector in the clean room at the Sanford Underground Research Facility, after assembly and before beginning its journey underground. The white cylinder is the time projection chamber’s field cage. (Credit: Matthew Kapust, Sanford Underground Research Facility)

A Conversation with Genesis PI Giorgio Vallone

Giorgio Vallone, a research scientist in Berkeley Lab’s Engineering Division, examines part of a superconducting magnet. (Credit: Robinson Kuntz, Berkeley Lab)

Advancing DOE’s Genesis Mission AI Efforts Across the Physical Sciences Area

DOE's Genesis Mission logo/banner

Engineering a Custom Instrument to Advance Battery Technology

Andrew Dopilka, a research scientist in Berkeley Lab’s Energy Technology Area, pours molten material into the twin roller quencher, a device custom-made for his research by the Engineering Small Projects Support Group. The device quickly cools the material, leading to the creation of amorphous solids that will be used to help advance battery technology. (Credit: Thor Swift, Berkeley Lab)

The Twin Roller Quencher: a custom device to help advance battery technology

Red-hot glowing molten material is poured into a device and rapidly cooled between two metal rollers to quickly lower its temperature. The words, "Engineering a custom device to help advance battery technology," appear in the upper right corner.

Inventing Team Science with the Cyclotron

Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory's scientific and technical staff arranged within and on top of the magnet of the 60-inch cyclotron. (September 1938) Photographer: Donald Cooksey, Berkeley Lab

GRETA Comes Online for a New Era of Nuclear Science

GRETA installed at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams. (Credit: Shumpei Noji, FRIB) Alt text: Close-up of GRETA’s two separated halves, showing germanium detector modules arranged around a central opening and surrounded by dense bundles of multicolored wiring and tubing.

Made in Berkeley Lab: Revealing the Secret Miniature World of Wire Bonding

An image sensor and two custom readout chips for the VeryFastCCD project. These components were designed at Berkeley Lab and wire bonded together in the Engineering Division. The unusual design of these pieces means that the sensor is wire bonded directly to the readout chips on both sides rather than the more traditional method of being bonded to the printed circuit board. (Credit: Phathakone Sanethavong, Berkeley Lab)

Berkeley Lab to Lead 13 New Genesis Mission AI Projects

DOE Genesis Mission image composite - Berkeley Lab will lead 13 new Genesis Mission projects and partner on more than 30 others. (Credit: Jenny Weger/Berkeley Lab)

Building ATLAS: A 20+ Year Effort

Tom Johnson (left) and other members of Berkeley Lab's ATLAS project engineering team assemble the carbon fiber support tube for the ATLAS Pixel Detector (April 2004). Credit: Roy Kaltschmidt, Berkeley Lab

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