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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

graphical rendition of AI/ML

BELLA Successfully Completes First Experiment Under BeamNetUS

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

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)

Berkeley Lab’s November 2025 High School STEM Day focuses on particle accelerators

Yufan Yan, a postdoctoral researcher in the ATAP Division, explains how superconducting magnets work at Berkeley Lab's Magnet Test Facility. Credit: Robinson Kuntz, Berkeley Lab

3Q4: Lieselotte Obst-Huebl

3 Questions For Lieselotte Obst-Huebl. Photo Credit: Karen Russell

3Q4: Yilun Xu

3 Questions For Yilun Xu. Photo Credit: Karen Russell

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