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The ultimate cosmic question: How fast is the universe expanding?

New observations of distant galaxies could shake up the consensus view of the universe's expansion. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Experiment could open door to new element discoveries

Jacklyn Gates (Staff Scientist, Heavy Element Group) at the Berkeley Gas-filled Separator, BGS, in Building 88 on Monday, July 8, 2024 at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, Calif. Experts in the Nuclear Science Division use the 88-Inch Cyclotron to test a new way to make superheavy element 116, livermorium. Photographer: Marilyn Sargent

Dark matter and dark energy: mapping the dark universe

Milky Way image - from David Schlegel's TNS Podcast interview, June 4, 2024

Superheavy Elements Are Breaking the Periodic Table

2024-0514 - Pappas - SciAm feature image by Quarternative

Is Dark Energy Decaying?

Brian Greene and Michael Levi - May 10, 2024, World Science Festival video

Mike Witherell: seeking big impact from big science

Mike Witherell

Berkeley Lab’s Big Science Stories of 2023

Berkeley Lab News Center featured image for 2023 Big Science Stories

Precision measurements bring the search for new physics to the table

December 2023 - Physics Today cover image

The Most Shocking Discovery in Astrophysics Is 25 Years Old

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) will spend five years creating a 3-D map of the universe that will help reveal the nature of the dark energy driving cosmic expansion. The project's first six months of data show slivers of the universe that represent just 1 percent of the survey's ultimate volume of space. The colors represent different types of galaxies, including nearby bright galaxies in yellow, luminous red galaxies in magenta and galaxies with supermassive black holes in turquoise. Credit: Nadieh Bremer; Source: “The Early Data Release of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument,” by DESI Collaboration et al.; 2023 (data)

Prototype for DUNE detector will test new technology that can handle more neutrinos

Fermilab press release image: The crew moved the 2×2 prototype into place for insertion into the liquid argon cryostat, where it will collect data in the NuMI neutrino beam. Photo: Dan Svoboda, Fermilab

LZ leads the race to directly detect dark matter 

Engineers, Charles Maupin (left) and Jake Davis work to install one of the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) chambers. LZ is a next-generation dark matter experiment in South Dakota. Photo Credit: Nick Hubbard

The Rise of the Data Physicist

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