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Made in Berkeley Lab: design and fabrication do the heavy lifting

An up-close view of the new rack lift fixture (the yellow X-shaped device) affixed to the top of a rack during a crane move in the ALS. Credit: Kyle McCombs, Berkeley Lab

Berkeley Lab hosts CERN Director-General Fabiola Gianotti and EPP panelists for talks on the future of particle physics research

Hitoshi Murayama, Fabiola Gianotti, Mike Witherell, Pier Oddone, Michael Turner, and Natalie Roe. (Credit: Robinson Kuntz, Berkeley Lab)

2025 Berkeley Lab Director’s Awards honor PSA staff members

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Directional Muon Beam Shows Potential for Advanced Imaging Technique

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

Visiting Antarctica in service of science

Berkeley Lab Electronics Engineer Thorsten Stezelberger places an antenna in a hole in the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica. Credit: Spencer Klein, Berkeley Lab

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

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

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

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.

Diagnostic Tool Sheds New Light on Instabilities in High-Power Lasers

Finn Kohrell and Jeroen van Tilborg discuss the laser's optical stretcher, a part of the laser system that controls the separation (stretching) and re-compression of different wavelength components of the laser pulse, which are all crucial for laser amplification and pulse envelope shaping. (Credit: Matthew Fullmer, Berkeley Lab)

A New Method for Measuring Inter-Tape Resistance in Superconducting Cables

Reed Teyber and Chet Spencer work on the experimental setup for measuring inter-tape contact resistance in REBCO-based superconducting cables. (Credit: Matthew Fullmer, Berkeley Lab)

A delicate dance with 20-ton concrete blocks

The rigging team moves Roof Blocks 74 and 76 at the Advanced Light Source (ALS) Sector 12 area, as part of Summer 2025 shutdown work. Credit: Thor Swift, Berkeley Lab

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