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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)

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

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