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Brian Greene and Michael Levi - May 10, 2024, World Science Festival video A researcher adjusts a detector deep underground at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in South Dakota, the array of sensors used by the Majorana Collaboration to search for particle-level violations of the Standard Model. Credit: Matthew Kapust, Sanford Underground Research Facility Three faces: Jens Birkholzer, Tina Clarke, and Henrik von der Lippe. Berkeley Lab's three elected 2024 AAAS Members From left to right: Michael Levi, Jian-Hua Mao, Trent Northen, Alan Poon, and Sayeef Salahuddin. Credit: Jenny Nuss/Berkeley Lab Paolo Ferracin, senior scientist and deputy of ATAP’s Superconducting Magnet Program, Hugh Higley, contractor to the program, and Xiaorong Wang, a staff scientist at SMP, analyze a sample of 6-around-1 superconducting REBCO cable. Michele Pixa/Berkeley Lab Lucas Brouwer, research scientist in ATAP's Superconducting Magnet Program, works on a canted cosine-theta magnet design. Berkeley Lab Rick Bloemhard, an electronics associate in the Engineering Division, discussed the GRETA (Gamma-Ray Energy Tracking Array) project, which is currently under construction at the 88-Inch Cyclotron. (Photo by Thor Swift, Berkeley Lab) DESI has made the largest 3D map of our universe to date. Earth is at the center of this thin slice of the full map. In the magnified section, it is easy to see the underlying structure of matter in our universe. Credit: Claire Lamman/DESI collaboration; custom colormap package by cmastro NSD News Rad Mapping image - April 2024 Eos Detector - Jan 2024 BLDS-NEWS-IMAGE-1025x685px-2024-0401 - Mirror Nuclei - Neutron Imaging - graph - 4web.jpg