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A Simple Blood Test Could Reveal Hidden Radiation Exposure

Hang Chang, a computational staff scientist in the Biosciences Area, examines microscopy images of tissue. Chang developed a machine learning model to identify radiation exposure based on results from a complete blood count (CBC). (Credit: Robinson Kuntz, Berkeley Lab)

How Berkeley shaped NASA’s newest space telescope

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will explore the infrared universe to resolve unanswered questions about dark energy, dark matter, exoplanets, galaxies and more. Credit: NASA

Berkeley Lab’s Connections to the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics

Alt Text: In the snow at the South Pole, a person in a bright red parka walks toward an enclosed, two-layered scientific facility with a system of criss-crossing black ladders on the side, and it's sitting on top of suspension girders and suspended between two (2) three-story-tall white towers.

Heather Crawford and Jens Osterhoff elected 2026 APS Fellows

Left: ​​Heather Crawford in Jukkasjärvi, Sweden, 200km north of the Arctic Circle, December 2025. Right: Jens Osterhoff addresses participants at the Laser Plasma Accelerators & Advanced Laser Technology for Basic Energy Sciences Workshop at Berkeley Lab, June 2026. Credits: Left: Meggan Crawford. Right: Robinson Kuntz, Berkeley Lab.

New Genesis Mission Efforts Across the Physical Sciences Area

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Four Berkeley Lab Scientists Receive DOE Early Career Research Awards

Portraits of four researchers on a green background.

Super Intelligence for Particle Accelerators Gets Another Boost

Blue and orange magnets of the ALS booster ring.

Francis Halzen wins 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics for IceCube neutrino research

An IceCube digital optical module attached to it’s cable, ready to be lowered 2.4 kilometers into its final location in the South Polar icecap. The sensor electronics were designed and built at Berkeley Lab. Photographer: Spencer Klein, Berkeley Lab

The Science Enabling a Steady Supply of Critical Minerals

6 different colored/shaped rocks on a white background. (Credit: Berkeley Lab News Center)

Targeted Cancer Therapy Gets a Sharper Focus

ALT: A researcher wearing a blue T-shirt sits in a research lab.

From Design to Data Analysis: Engineering Celebrates LUX-ZEPLIN Result

LUX-ZEPLIN’s central detector in the clean room at the Sanford Underground Research Facility, after assembly and before beginning its journey underground. The white cylinder is the time projection chamber’s field cage. (Credit: Matthew Kapust, Sanford Underground Research Facility)

True Tales of Team Science: Come Fly With Me

Photos of Kevin Goodwin and Brian Quiter in the lower middle, with a backdrop photo of a drone on an out-of-focus blue landscape background

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