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Quest for Tritium Detection with Scientific CCDs Fueled by Deep Learning

CCD in cryostat at LBNL, preparing for detection of tritium (Credit: Berkeley Lab Nuclear Science Division)

Ion recycling to illuminate the heaviest elements

Illustration of the ion trap used by the ISOLDE team to measure the electron affinity of chlorine. In the trap, chlorine anions are reflected back and forth between two electrostatic ion mirrors, allowing the laser beam (pink) to probe the anions for much longer than in conventional measurements. The laser frequency is tuned to find the exact photon energy above which the extra electron (small white circle) is removed from the anion. (Image: MIRACLS collaboration)

Scouts Explore the Quantum World at Berkeley Lab’s 13th Annual Nuclear Science Day

The team of experts who hosted the "Detector Expo" of advanced radiation detectors pictured with Spot, the radiation-mapping robot dog. (Credit: Dallar Babaian, Berkeley Lab)

Berkeley Lab Hosts ALICE Grid Operations Review Meeting

The ALICE Experiment at the LHC. Photo courtesy of Berkeley Lab IT

2025 Berkeley Lab Director’s Awards honor PSA staff members

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New Data Release from CUORE Features a “Noise-Canceling” Algorithm

The CUORE detector has 19 copper-framed “towers” that each house a matrix of 52 cube-shaped crystals. Credit: Yury Suvorov/CUORE collaboration. Alt text: Close-up view of an array of cubic, pale crystals held in a copper framework. The structure is composed of multiple repeating units arranged in a symmetrical, grid-like pattern, with small white spacers at the intersections.

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

Gabriel Orebi Gann, Jeroen van Tilborg, and Mathis Wiedeking elected 2025 APS Fellows

Gabriel Orebi Gann, Jeroen van Tilborg and Mathis Wiedeking. Credits: Left: AJ Gubser, UC Berkeley. Center: Thor Swift, Berkeley Lab. Right: Robinson Kuntz, Berkeley Lab.

Remembering Darleane Hoffman

Darleane Hoffman with the Periodic Table of Elements that were discovered at Berkeley Lab. (Credit: Roy Kaltschmidt, Berkeley Lab)

More Signs of Phase-change ‘Turbulence’ in Nuclear Matter

The STAR detector at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory. (Credit: Brookhaven National Laboratory) Alt text: Pipes and cables on the exterior of the large blue STAR detector.

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)

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).

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