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Berkeley Lab receives funding through DOE’s 'Quantum Outposts on the Energy and Intensity Frontiers' program

Christian Bauer, head of the Physics Division’s Theory and Quantum Computing Groups

Scientists Release Biggest 2D Map of the Universe

A bright spiral galaxy on a black background dotted with other stars and galaxies.

Tour the Biggest 2D Map of the Universe

A screenshot from the video showing a black background with dots and smudges of various sizes and colors that indicate the celestial objects observed in the newest DESI Legacy Survey, and a caption at the bottom that reads, "The DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys has released the largest 2D map of the universe ever made."

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

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)

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

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)

What’s the Problem with Quantum Noise?

A stylized illustration on a teal grid background featuring a central golden quantum computer with stacked rings and wiring, surrounded by four panels: a glowing red star, a qubit with dashed axes (top right), a material diagram with a blue diamond shape (bottom left), and a medicine bottle with a green liquid (bottom right).

The National Academy of Sciences Elects Two Berkeley Lab Researchers

New NAS members Kam-Biu Luk (left) and Gary Karpen. (Credit: Jenny Weger, Berkeley Lab, and UC Berkeley)

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