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How Berkeley shaped NASA’s newest space telescope

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will explore the infrared universe to resolve unanswered questions about dark energy, dark matter, exoplanets, galaxies and more. Credit: NASA

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.

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

From Design to Data Analysis: Engineering Celebrates LUX-ZEPLIN Result

LUX-ZEPLIN’s central detector in the clean room at the Sanford Underground Research Facility, after assembly and before beginning its journey underground. The white cylinder is the time projection chamber’s field cage. (Credit: Matthew Kapust, Sanford Underground Research Facility)

Inside the Physics Division at Berkeley Lab

Physics Video Tour - Title "Inside the Physics Division at Berkeley Lab" with a background panoramic photo of the San Francisco Bay Area.

2026 Berkeley Lab Director’s Awards honor PSA staff members

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LZ Sees Surprising Result in Search for Dark Matter

Caption: The LUX-ZEPLIN main detector in a surface lab before installation underground. Credit: Matthew Kapust/Sanford Underground Research Facility Alt text: A researcher in protective gear works near a tall, cylindrical scientific instrument with visible wiring. The walls surrounding it are reflective Teflon.

Berkeley Lab receives funding through DOE’s 'Quantum Outposts on the Energy and Intensity Frontiers' program

Christian Bauer, head of the Physics Division’s Theory and Quantum Computing Groups

Scientists Release Biggest 2D Map of the Universe

A bright spiral galaxy on a black background dotted with other stars and galaxies.

Tour the Biggest 2D Map of the Universe

A screenshot from the video showing a black background with dots and smudges of various sizes and colors that indicate the celestial objects observed in the newest DESI Legacy Survey, and a caption at the bottom that reads, "The DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys has released the largest 2D map of the universe ever made."

Inventing Team Science with the Cyclotron

Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory's scientific and technical staff arranged within and on top of the magnet of the 60-inch cyclotron. (September 1938) Photographer: Donald Cooksey, Berkeley Lab

Building ATLAS: A 20+ Year Effort

Tom Johnson (left) and other members of Berkeley Lab's ATLAS project engineering team assemble the carbon fiber support tube for the ATLAS Pixel Detector (April 2004). Credit: Roy Kaltschmidt, Berkeley Lab

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