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Early Career Scientist Director’s Award Recipients Share Tips for Success

Timon Heim (Physical Sciences Area), Kate Zhalnina (Biosciences Area), and Marco Pritoni (Energy Technologies Area).

LZ Sets a World’s Best in the Hunt for Galactic Dark Matter and Gets a New Look at Neutrinos from the Sun’s Core

Caption: Photomultiplier tubes inside the LZ detector are designed to capture faint flashes of UV light that could signal a dark matter interaction. Credit: Matthew Kapust/Sanford Underground Research Facility Alt text: A circular array of amber, glossy photomultiplier tubes arranged in a grid pattern.

Ion recycling to illuminate the heaviest elements

Illustration of the ion trap used by the ISOLDE team to measure the electron affinity of chlorine. In the trap, chlorine anions are reflected back and forth between two electrostatic ion mirrors, allowing the laser beam (pink) to probe the anions for much longer than in conventional measurements. The laser frequency is tuned to find the exact photon energy above which the extra electron (small white circle) is removed from the anion. (Image: MIRACLS collaboration)

Berkeley Lab celebrates 2025 Dark Matter Day at the Chabot Space and Science Center

Dan Kodroff shows a young visitor the vast unknown scale of dark matter masses. Credit: Emily Perry, Berkeley Lab

The Search for Dark Matter

Chiara Salemi and Nick Rodd are featured in this episode of Berkeley Lab's podcast, It's Elemental. (Image courtesy of Berkeley Lab Elements)

Berkeley Lab hosts CERN Director-General Fabiola Gianotti and EPP panelists for talks on the future of particle physics research

Hitoshi Murayama, Fabiola Gianotti, Mike Witherell, Pier Oddone, Michael Turner, and Natalie Roe. (Credit: Robinson Kuntz, Berkeley Lab)

2025 Berkeley Lab Director’s Awards honor PSA staff members

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Directional Muon Beam Shows Potential for Advanced Imaging Technique

The Berkeley Lab Laser Accelerator (BELLA) Center (Credit: Thor Swift, Berkeley Lab)

Dan Carney named one of Moore Foundation’s 2025 Experimental Physics Investigators

Dan Carney. Credit: Thor Swift, Berkeley Lab

Remembering George Smoot

Portrait of George Smoot at Berkeley Lab in 1992. (Credit: Roy Kaltschmidt, Berkeley Lab)

Remembering Robert P. Ely

Robert P. Ely (Credit: Courtesy of Berkeley Lab Photo Archive)

Berkeley Lab Engineer designs hardware for the moon’s unforgiving environment

Physics Division staff scientist Aritoki Suzuki (right) and postdoctoral researcher Kaja Rotermund install the central bearing assembly for the shaft that rotates LuSEE-Night’s carousel. This component was later replaced by a shaft made of a glass-reinforced PEI polymer. Credit: Joe Silber, Berkeley Lab

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