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Berkeley Lab’s Connections to the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics

Alt Text: In the snow at the South Pole, a person in a bright red parka walks toward an enclosed, two-layered scientific facility with a system of criss-crossing black ladders on the side, and it's sitting on top of suspension girders and suspended between two (2) three-story-tall white towers.

Heather Crawford and Jens Osterhoff elected 2026 APS Fellows

Left: ​​Heather Crawford in Jukkasjärvi, Sweden, 200km north of the Arctic Circle, December 2025. Right: Jens Osterhoff addresses participants at the Laser Plasma Accelerators & Advanced Laser Technology for Basic Energy Sciences Workshop at Berkeley Lab, June 2026. Credits: Left: Meggan Crawford. Right: Robinson Kuntz, Berkeley Lab.

New Genesis Mission Efforts Across the Physical Sciences Area

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Super Intelligence for Particle Accelerators Gets Another Boost

Blue and orange magnets of the ALS booster ring.

Francis Halzen wins 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics for IceCube neutrino research

An IceCube digital optical module attached to it’s cable, ready to be lowered 2.4 kilometers into its final location in the South Polar icecap. The sensor electronics were designed and built at Berkeley Lab. Photographer: Spencer Klein, Berkeley Lab

The Science Enabling a Steady Supply of Critical Minerals

6 different colored/shaped rocks on a white background. (Credit: Berkeley Lab News Center)

Targeted Cancer Therapy Gets a Sharper Focus

ALT: A researcher wearing a blue T-shirt sits in a research lab.

Seven Decades of Precision: The Berkeley Low-Background Facility’s Legacy

Al Smith loading an aluminum disc to study neutron activation in a counter in the Building 72 lab (circa 1950s). (Credit: LBNL)

True Tales of Team Science: Come Fly With Me

Photos of Kevin Goodwin and Brian Quiter in the lower middle, with a backdrop photo of a drone on an out-of-focus blue landscape background

Physics Data for Machines (PD4M) AI-Ready Data for Nuclear Theory and Experiment

Block diagram of PD4M showing experimental devices (GRETA, Gammasphere) and theory codes (Frontier) with PD4M labelers, the theory SDK, data catalogs with the AMSC API. (Credit: LBNL)

Advancing DOE’s Genesis Mission AI Efforts Across the Physical Sciences Area

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Berkeley Lab Technology Wins R&D 100 Award

2026 R&D World "R&D 100 Awards" banner logo: On a black background appear the words "R&D World Presents: R&D 100 Awards" situated in a square shape on the left side of the image, and the words "R&D World" in the lower right, on on the right side, an old-fashioned clear-glass lightbulb standing upright on a gray platform, with wispy rainbow colored smoke inside and floating out to the right side of the bulb.

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