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Berkeley Lab News Center feature image montage. Credit: Jenny Nuss, Berkeley Lab 2024's Biggest Breakthroughs in Physics - Quanta Magazine A plasma channel forms in a sheet of supersonic gas. (Credit: Alexander Picksley and Anthony Gonsalves/Berkeley Lab) BELLA Center Staff Scientist Stepan Bulanov. Matthew Fullmer/Berkeley Lab Olga Shapoval, research scientist in the ATAP's Advanced Modeling Program at Berkeley Lab. Thor Swift/Berkeley Lab ATAP Deputy Division Director, Operations, Asmita Patel (far left), joins students participating in High Schools STEM Day. Photo: Berkeley Lab The Berkeley Lab niobium-tin magnet assembly team for the High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider Accelerator Upgrade Project. (l-r) Daniel Cheng, Juan Rodriguez, Paolo Ferracin, Jennifer Doyle, Simone Johnson, Laura Garcia Fajardo, Jonathan Hekmat, Matthew Reynolds, Mike Solis, Joshua Herrera, and Bob Memmo. Photo Credit: Andy Lin, Berkeley Lab Berkeley Lab Engineering Division team member contributing to the LCLS-II high-energy upgrade. (l-r) Diego Arbelaez, Michael Hallock, Philip Mallon, Kyle McCombs, Maya Kota, and Kelly Hanzel. Daniel Bruch/SLAC Hitoshi Murayama speaks at the Particle Physics Project Prioritization Panel (P5) Town Hall Meeting at Berkeley Lab in February 2023. Photo credit: Paul Mueller, Berkeley Lab An artist's concept of a highly magnetized neutron star. According to current theory, axions would be created in the hot interior of the neutron star. UC Berkeley astrophysicists say that the strong magnetic field of the star will transform these axions into gamma rays that can be detected from Earth, pinpointing the mass of the axion. Casey Reed, courtesy of Penn State; reproduction is permitted under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial 3.0 License DESI observes the sky from the Mayall Telescope, shown here during the 2023 Geminid meteor shower. Credit: KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/R. Sparks New observations of distant galaxies could shake up the consensus view of the universe's expansion. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center