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When It Comes to Fusion, Materials Matter

The ATAP Division's Arun Persaud (left) and Thomas Schenkel study fusion reaction rates in materials at Berkeley Lab. Credit: Thor Swift, Berkeley Lab. Alt text: Two people in lab coats adjust equipment.

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)

Magnetic Clues Inside Atomic Nuclei Help Explain How Elements Form In Stars

The SuN++ total absorption spectrometer at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB), used to determine the magnetic nature of the low-energy enhancement in atomic nuclei. (Credit: FRIB/MSU)

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

CODEX-beta records first data in search for hidden particles

The fully installed CODEX-beta detector at CERN. (Credit: Carlos Vazquez Sierra, University of A Coruña, Galicia, Spain)

Building ATLAS: Bringing Science to Life

Mechanical Technician Marcos Toledo McGee lifts a component of the ATLAS Detector carbon fiber cylinder into place in the Engineering Division’s shop facility. (Credit: Thor Swift, Berkeley Lab)

The Multi-Office-Particle Accelerator Team (MOAT) Puts AI to Work for Accelerators

MOAT: Multi-Office Particle Accelerator Team

The Power of Protection: Berkeley Lab’s Flood and Leak Prevention Program

Tom Lipton, an Engineering Technical Manager in the Engineering Division, performs a water inspection in building 50B on the Berkeley Lab campus. (Credit: Allison Barker, Berkeley Lab)

Natalie Roe, Associate Laboratory Director for Physical Sciences, to retire

Photo collage of Natalie Roe's Berkeley Lab career highlights.

Building ATLAS: A dedicated partnership

The ATLAS Pixel Support Tube builders and fabricators, photographed next to the Pixel Support Tube, in the Engineering Division's Mechanical Fabrication Shops (April 24, 2026) - Credit: Thor Swift, Berkeley Lab

Breakthrough in Alpha Theranostics: First Images of Ac-225 in a Clinical PET Scanner

Side-by-side comparison of TOF-CGI image in a SIEMENS Vision scanner vs a SPECT image in a GE Hawkeye 4. The TOF-CGI images show much lower noise, which is reflected in superior SNR with respect to SPECT. (Credit: NSD's Applied Nuclear Physics Group)

Machine Learning Reopens the Case for Dark Matter at the Galactic Center

An image of the surprising excess of gamma-rays emerging at the center of our Milky Way, superimposed on an optical image of the galaxy. The nature of the excess and whether it could be originating from dark matter has been debated for over a decade." Credit: NASA Goddard/A. Mellinger (Central Michigan Univ.) and T. Linden (Univ. of Chicago)

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