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Milestone in Free-Electron Lasers Marks Progress Toward Next-Generation Light Sources

BELLA Center staff scientist Samuel Barber (left) and postdoctoral researcher Finn Kohrell (right) working in BELLA's high-power laser facility. (Credit: Robinson Kuntz, Berkeley Lab)

Offline Reinforcement Learning for VENUS Control

An icon/illustration of a computer screen (on the left) 'interacts' through "Action" (with and arrow pointing from left to right), as well as "Observation" and "Reward" (with arrows pointing right to left), with a representation of the VENUS Ion Source (on the right).

Data from Proton and Ion Targets Offers Synergies to Probe Meson Structure

Photoproduction of the ρ’ meson can occur on either proton or heavy (lead) nuclei. The two possibilities lead to the same 4-pion mass spectrum. (Credit: Neha Devi et al)

Di-nucleons do not form Bound States at Heavy Pion Mass

Baryon Scattering (BaSc) Collaboration logo icon with the letters "Ba" top left, "Sc" bottom right, and 2 small light blue circles, each with 3 circles inside (blue, red, and green) near the middle, all inside a white square with a thin black outline (Credit: BaSc Collaboration)

2026 State of the Lab Q&A with Lab Director Mike Witherell

Photo of Mike Witherell leaning on a railing at the ALS. (Credit: Christopher Michel for the National Academy of Sciences)

LEGEND-200 Publishes its First Results

Assembly of the LEGEND-200 detector strings. (Credit: Courtesy: M.Willer, former NSD postdoc)

NSD hosts Workshop on Radiological Data Fusion (RadFusion)

Group photo at the RadFusion Workshop. Courtesy of NSD

Super Cold and Super Tiny: the Electronics Behind the LEGEND-1000 Physics Detector

A prototype ASIC for LEGEND-1000, a planned physics detector. The ASIC is a microchip that will operate in a harsh environment in order to collect data. (Credit: Marcos Turqueti, Berkeley Lab)

Solving a Mystery in Dark Matter Detectors Could Improve Quantum Computers

Alt text: Close-up of a hexagonal structure holding two square chips, each with two reflective lines.

Hitoshi Murayama receives APS' 2026 Lilienfeld Prize

Photo of Hitoshi Murayama, standing in a wooded area with a green jacket on, and the words "2026 Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize" next to the APS orbital logo

Berkeley Lab and NVIDIA Collaboration Accelerates U.S. Leadership in Hybrid Quantum–Classical Computing

Berkeley Lab’s QubiC (Quantum bit Controller) at AQT with NVIDIA DGX Spark and NVIDIA NVQLink (Credit: Keegan Houser / UC Berkeley )

Why the Energy Department’s science labs will spearhead the federal push into AI

Nighttime photo of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, just one of many big facilities that are flooding the U.S. Department of Energy’s science labs with data and necessitating the greater use and exploration of artificial intelligence. Photo Credit: P.J. Assuncao Lago, NSF/DOE Rubin Observatory

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