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Category: Physics

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

Voices from the past get an AI assist

The 19th-century wax recording disc on which was discovered a recitation of the poem “The Burial of Sir John Moore after Corunna,” by Charles Wolfe, written in 1817. Credit: Smithsonian's National Museum of American History

DESI Collaboration to Receive 2026 Berkeley Prize

Caption: DESI has made the largest 3D map of our universe to date and uses it to study dark energy. Earth is at the center in this animation, and every dot is a galaxy. Credit: DESI collaboration and KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/R. Proctor Alt text: Animation of points emanating in two cones from a center point.

ATLAS’s upgraded support structure successfully integrated at CERN

The ATLAS ITk outer cylinder under construction at Berkeley Lab in 2023. Credit: Thor Swift, Berkeley Lab

Berkeley Lab hosts 2025 ‘Physics in and Through Cosmology’ Workshop

Group photo of 2025 'Physics in and Through Cosmology' Workshop participants. Credit: Thor Swift, Berkeley Lab

Magnets Could Unlock a New Way to Detect Gravitational Waves

Gravitational waves (blue lines) that pass through a magnet (orange) will cause it to oscillate, thereby generating an oscillating magnetic field that could be detected. In this way, large magnets can operate as Weber Bars. Image Credit: Nick Rodd, Berkeley Lab

Berkeley Lab hosts 2025 DESI Summer Collaboration Meeting

2025 DESI Summer Collaboration Meeting participants at Berkeley Lab, July 2025. (Credit: Tami Blackwell, Berkeley Lab)

Super Set of Supernovae Suggests Dark Energy Surprise

The bright dot of Supernova 1994D appears next to galaxy NGC 4526. Credit: NASA, ESA, The Hubble Key Project Team, and The High-Z Supernova Search Team Alt text: A white dot with diffraction spikes appears near a large swirling galaxy with a bright core.

Remembering Mary K. Gaillard

Mary K Gaillard teaching at UC Berkeley in the early 1980s. Courtesy of Emilio Segre archives, LBNL.

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