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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)

Berkeley Lab physicists help commission the Mu2e tracker

Namitha Chithirasreemadam, Richie Bonventre, and Ed Callaghan – members of Berkeley Lab’s Mu2e research team – in front of the Mu2e tracker, which is sitting on temporary support rails in the Mu2e experimental hall at Fermilab. (Photo credit: Vadim Rusu, Fermilab)

Dark Matter's Quantum Nature Leaves No Trace in Detectors

A graph from the PRL publication showing that the quantum nature of axion dark matter (shown on the left), an ultralight wave-based dark-matter candidate, vanishes when viewed by a modern detector (shown on the right), whether or not researchers are using advanced quantum technologies to detect them. (Credit: Nick Rodd, Berkeley Lab)

Ben Safdi awarded Breakthrough Prize Foundation's 2026 New Horizons in Physics Prize

Ben Safdi's Breakthrough Prize banner presentation

DESI Completes Planned 3D Map of the Universe and Continues Exploring

Alt text: Two fans of blue and white dots extending up and down from center on a black background.

2026 State of the Lab Q&A with Lab Director Mike Witherell

Photo of Mike Witherell leaning on a railing at the ALS. (Credit: Christopher Michel for the National Academy of Sciences)

Solving a Mystery in Dark Matter Detectors Could Improve Quantum Computers

Alt text: Close-up of a hexagonal structure holding two square chips, each with two reflective lines.

Hitoshi Murayama receives APS' 2026 Lilienfeld Prize

Photo of Hitoshi Murayama, standing in a wooded area with a green jacket on, and the words "2026 Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize" next to the APS orbital logo

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

Five Berkeley Lab Scientists Receive DOE Early Career Research Awards

Faces of the ECRP Award recipients: (top row, from left) Timon Heim, Harrison Lisbeth, Aditi Krishnapriyan, (bottom row, from left) Dan Carney, and Callum Wilkinson. (Credit: Jenny Weger, Berkeley Lab)

Dark Energy Survey scientists release new analysis of how the universe expands

DES scientists surveyed a wide area of the sky from 2013 to 2019 using an extremely sensitive 570-megapixel digital camera built at Fermilab, the DECam. Credit: Reidar Hahn, Fermilab

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