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Storied atom-smasher that makes tiny Big Bangs wraps up mission

Particles burst into RHIC’s new sPHENIX detector after gold ions collide and create a puff of quark-gluon plasma (Credit: sPHENIX/Brookhaven National Laboratory)

Remembering Robert P. Ely

Robert P. Ely (Credit: Courtesy of Berkeley Lab Photo Archive)

Berkeley Lab Engineer designs hardware for the moon’s unforgiving environment

Physics Division staff scientist Aritoki Suzuki (right) and postdoctoral researcher Kaja Rotermund install the central bearing assembly for the shaft that rotates LuSEE-Night’s carousel. This component was later replaced by a shaft made of a glass-reinforced PEI polymer. Credit: Joe Silber, Berkeley Lab

New Elements

Jackly Gates and Jennifer Pore (right/background) are currently leading the search for element 120 at Berkeley Lab (Photo Credit: Marilyn Sargent, Berkeley Lab). The element 106 team at Berkeley Lab (left/inset), circa 1974. Standing left to right: Ron Logheed, Michael Nitschke, and José Alonso. Seated left to right: Mattie Nurmia, Ken Hulet, Glenn Seaborg, Al Ghiorso, and Carol Travis-Alonso. (Photo courtesy of Berkeley Lab).

How AI and Automation are Speeding Up Science and Discovery

Kei Nakamura aims a targeting laser at Berkeley Lab Laser Accelerator (BELLA) Center, which uses machine learning models to optimize beams, improvements that have the potential for broader scientific and industrial applications. (Credit: Thor Swift/Berkeley Lab)

Voices from the past get an AI assist

The 19th-century wax recording disc on which was discovered a recitation of the poem “The Burial of Sir John Moore after Corunna,” by Charles Wolfe, written in 1817. Credit: Smithsonian's National Museum of American History

DESI Collaboration to Receive 2026 Berkeley Prize

Caption: DESI has made the largest 3D map of our universe to date and uses it to study dark energy. Earth is at the center in this animation, and every dot is a galaxy. Credit: DESI collaboration and KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/R. Proctor Alt text: Animation of points emanating in two cones from a center point.

ATLAS’s upgraded support structure successfully integrated at CERN

The ATLAS ITk outer cylinder under construction at Berkeley Lab in 2023. Credit: Thor Swift, Berkeley Lab

Berkeley Lab hosts 2025 ‘Physics in and Through Cosmology’ Workshop

Group photo of 2025 'Physics in and Through Cosmology' Workshop participants. Credit: Thor Swift, Berkeley Lab

Studying Gas Production in REBCO-Based Superconducting Magnets for Future Fusion Reactors

Christopher Reis, a graduate student in ATAP's Superconducting Magnet Program, operates an ion beam scanning electron microscope to study the irradiated microstructures of REBCO-based superconductors. (Credit: Berkeley Lab ATAP Division)

Combining Numerical Simulation Techniques Improves Laser-Plasma Accelerator Modeling

Davide Terzani and Carlo Benedetti from ATAP's BELLA Center discuss how to initialize a time-averaged ponderomotive approximation simulation in a boosted frame. (Credit: Matt Fullmer, Berkeley Lab)

GRETA to Open a New Eye on the Nucleus

A close-up view of the GRETA interior. Silver-grey modules are arranged in a flower-like configuration around a small central opening. and surrounded by metallic housing with circular ports.

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