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Quanta Magazine's '2024's Biggest Breakthroughs in Physics'

2024's Biggest Breakthroughs in Physics - Quanta Magazine

Milestone 10-GeV Experiment Shines Light on Laser-Plasma Interactions

A plasma channel forms in a sheet of supersonic gas. (Credit: Alexander Picksley and Anthony Gonsalves/Berkeley Lab)

Laser-Driven Ion Acceleration from Foam Targets: Aligning Simulations with Experimental Results

BELLA Center Staff Scientist Stepan Bulanov. Matthew Fullmer/Berkeley Lab

Improved Stability In Relativistic Plasma Simulations Using Novel Particle-In-Cell Formulation

Olga Shapoval, research scientist in the ATAP's Advanced Modeling Program at Berkeley Lab. Thor Swift/Berkeley Lab

ATAP Hosts High School STEM Day

ATAP Deputy Division Director, Operations, Asmita Patel (far left), joins students participating in High Schools STEM Day. Photo: Berkeley Lab

New Magnets for LHC Upgrade Successfully Pass Halfway Mark

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

World’s Most Powerful X-Ray Laser Gets Major Energy Boost

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 elected to leadership role in the APS Division of Particles & Fields

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

A nearby supernova could end the search for dark matter

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

New DESI Results Weigh In On Gravity

DESI observes the sky from the Mayall Telescope, shown here during the 2023 Geminid meteor shower. Credit: KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/R. Sparks

The ultimate cosmic question: How fast is the universe expanding?

New observations of distant galaxies could shake up the consensus view of the universe's expansion. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Experiment could open door to new element discoveries

Jacklyn Gates (Staff Scientist, Heavy Element Group) at the Berkeley Gas-filled Separator, BGS, in Building 88 on Monday, July 8, 2024 at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, Calif. Experts in the Nuclear Science Division use the 88-Inch Cyclotron to test a new way to make superheavy element 116, livermorium. Photographer: Marilyn Sargent

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