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Why the Energy Department’s science labs will spearhead the federal push into AI

Nighttime photo of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, just one of many big facilities that are flooding the U.S. Department of Energy’s science labs with data and necessitating the greater use and exploration of artificial intelligence. Photo Credit: P.J. Assuncao Lago, NSF/DOE Rubin Observatory

A Quarter-Century of Surprises: Exploring the Quark-Gluon Plasma

Like the iris of a human eye, blue, teal, and red lines radiate around a central black dodecagon, all on a black background, with a beige outline and section marker lines.

Micro Journeys Podcast: Inside Berkeley Lab's 88-Inch Cyclotron

Jacklyn Gates, a Berkeley Lab nuclear scientist whose team is leading the search for element 120, explains the process of superheavy element discovery at the 88-Inch Cyclotron. From left to right: Dan Marrujo, Jacklyn Gates, and Larry Phair.

Ion recycling to illuminate the heaviest elements

Illustration of the ion trap used by the ISOLDE team to measure the electron affinity of chlorine. In the trap, chlorine anions are reflected back and forth between two electrostatic ion mirrors, allowing the laser beam (pink) to probe the anions for much longer than in conventional measurements. The laser frequency is tuned to find the exact photon energy above which the extra electron (small white circle) is removed from the anion. (Image: MIRACLS collaboration)

Storied atom-smasher that makes tiny Big Bangs wraps up mission

Particles burst into RHIC’s new sPHENIX detector after gold ions collide and create a puff of quark-gluon plasma (Credit: sPHENIX/Brookhaven National Laboratory)

Making Science: Inside Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Aerial view of Berkeley Lab's Machine Shop floor. Credit: Make Magazine

ATLAS and ALICE collaborations receive 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics

Left: One of the early collision events with stable beams recorded by ATLAS on April 23, 2016, with two reconstructed muon candidates (Image: CERN). Right: Lead-lead collisions at the Large Hadron Collider at 5.02TeV per nucleon pair in the center of mass, recorded by the ALICE detector in 2018 (Image: David Dobrigkeit Chinellato and Tapan Nayak). Background: Breakthrough Prize logo (Image: Breakthrough Prize Foundation).

DESI Shakes up the Dark Universe

Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille (Credit: APS TV)

Berkeley Lab’s Role in Unraveling the Universe’s Origins with ALICE

The ALICE Experiment at the LHC. Photo courtesy of Berkeley Lab IT

Compact, cheaper, laser-powered particle accelerators get real

In this plasma simulation, a pulse of laser light (red) tows a wake of electrons (blue), which other electrons (magenta) surf to enormous energies. Image Credit: Carlo Benedetti, Berkeley Lab

Quanta Magazine's '2024's Biggest Breakthroughs in Physics'

2024's Biggest Breakthroughs in Physics - Quanta Magazine

A nearby supernova could end the search for dark matter

An artist's concept of a highly magnetized neutron star. According to current theory, axions would be created in the hot interior of the neutron star. UC Berkeley astrophysicists say that the strong magnetic field of the star will transform these axions into gamma rays that can be detected from Earth, pinpointing the mass of the axion. Casey Reed, courtesy of Penn State; reproduction is permitted under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial 3.0 License

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