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Dark Energy Survey scientists release new analysis of how the universe expands

DES scientists surveyed a wide area of the sky from 2013 to 2019 using an extremely sensitive 570-megapixel digital camera built at Fermilab, the DECam. Credit: Reidar Hahn, Fermilab

Leading the Field in Magnets

Caption: Giorgio Vallone (left) and Marika D’Addazio test components for a superconducting magnet at Berkeley Lab. Credit: Robinson Kuntz/Berkeley Lab Alt text: Two researchers in protective glasses look into a superconducting magnet experimental setup.

Expert Interview: Soren Prestemon on Magnet Technology

Soren Prestemon looks over the winding tooling design used for the Electron Cyclotron Resonance sextupole magnets. Credit: Marilyn Sargent, Berkeley Lab

What is a superconductor quench?

Illustration of a superconductor quench. Credit: Jenny Weger, Berkeley Lab

A New Way to View Shockwaves Could Boost Fusion Research

Hai-En Tsai and Jeroen van Tilborg inspect the optical table that houses the high-power laser amplifier at the Berkeley Lab Laser Accelerator Center. (Credit: Robinson Kuntz/Berkeley Lab)

Advancing AI for Science Across the Physical Sciences Area

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BELLA Successfully Completes First Experiment Under BeamNetUS

The Berkeley Lab Laser Accelerator (BELLA) Center (Credit: Thor Swift, Berkeley Lab)

Berkeley Lab’s Big Science Stories of 2025

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Using Lasers to Improve the Efficiency of Quantum Emitters in Silicon

Two detailed scientific graphs showing the optical-linewidth broadening of T centers.

Color Center Qubits Could Illuminate the Path to a Quantum Future

Arun Persaud, head of ATAP’s Fusion Science & Ion Beam Technology Program (left) and Wei Liu, a project scientist in the Berkeley Accelerator Controls and Instrumentation Program (right), use a controller for a quantum readout experiment. (Credit: Robinson Kuntz, Berkeley Lab)

A New Imager Could Help Unearth the Mineral Wealth of Planets and Asteroids

Arun Persaud, head of ATAP’s Fusion Science & Ion Beam Technology Program (left), graduate student Juan Cristhian Luque Gutierrez (center), and research scientist Mauricio Ayllon Unzueta (right) working on INSPECT3R, the “in situ nuclear spectrometer with 3D resolution,” an advanced high-resolution imaging technology that can map the elemental composition of a planet or asteroid’s surface in 3D with centimeter-scale detail. (Credit: Robinson Kunz, Berkeley Lab)

A Quarter-Century of Surprises: Exploring the Quark-Gluon Plasma

Like the iris of a human eye, blue, teal, and red lines radiate around a central black dodecagon, all on a black background, with a beige outline and section marker lines.

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