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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).

How Researchers Are Building Next-Gen Quantum Computers

Large silvery-gray metallic device with long copper wires on the exterior. Credit: Marilyn Sargent/Berkeley Lab

Reiner Kruecken Named Berkeley Lab’s Associate Laboratory Director for Physical Sciences

Reiner Kruecken. (Credit: Thor Swift/Berkeley Lab)

Meet Iris, Berkeley Lab's prototype fiber-positioning robot for Spec-S5

Berkeley Lab's Engineering Division is developing Iris, a new fiber-positioning robot prototype for DESI's upgrade to 'Spec-S5.'

From the US Navy to Engineering Division Deputy of Operations: Mike Barry retires after 29 years of service at Berkeley Lab

Mike Barry

Made in Berkeley Lab: Winding a Novel Closed-Loop Coil Magnet Structure

A close-up of the closed-loop coil for the MARS-D magnet during production. The niobium-titanium (Nb-Ti) superconducting wire is shown wrapped around a series of 90-degree corners. (Credit: Lianrong Xu, Berkeley Lab)

The Invisible Cannonball: Tracking Alpha Therapy for the Future of Cancer Treatment

Host Jennifer Pore (left) chats with Javier Caravaca Rodriquez (right foreground) and Oscar Henry Matousek (right background, with glasses) about the future of nuclear medicine. (Credit: Nuclear Science Division, Berkeley Lab)

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)

Two Engineering Division Employees Make a Big Impact Through Mentoring and Volunteering

Software engineer Mary Lopez (left) and electronics engineer Rebecca Carney (right) with their awards at the 2026 Volunteer and Mentor Appreciation Event. (Photo Credits: Thor Swift, Berkeley Lab)

Meet Director’s Award Recipient, Runaround Champion, and Mechanical Engineer Jennifer Doyle

Jennifer Doyle with a magnet for the High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider Accelerator Upgrade Project. (Credit: Robinson Kuntz, Berkeley Lab)

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