January 12, 2023 / Berkeley Lab Elements ~ When Carl Haber, a senior scientist in Berkeley Lab’s Physics Division, first heard the crackling sound and the voice of Alexander Graham Bell emerge from a recording made 140 years ago, Haber exclaimed, “We got him!” Now he and partner Earl Cornell, of the Lab’s Engineering Division,Read More
Science in Motion: Nano-Materials to Make Better Light Sensor
October 26, 2022 / Jenny Nuss / Berkeley Lab News Center ~ Maurice Garcia-Sciveres, a staff scientist in Berkeley Lab’s Physics Division, is leading a collaboration with other Berkeley Lab scientists, and researchers from UC Berkeley and Sandia National Laboratories, to develop powerful light-sensing microchips. The team is leveraging their expertise in nano-materials and integratedRead More
How Do You Solve a Problem Like a Proton? You Smash It to Smithereens – Then Build It Back Together With Machine Learning
October 25, 2022 / Theresa Duque / Berkeley Lab News Center ~ Ben Nachman, a physicist who leads the Machine Learning Group in Berkeley Lab’s Physics Division is featured in this new article from the Berkeley Lab News Center. Berkeley Lab scientists have developed new machine learning algorithms to accelerate the analysis of data collectedRead More
After Fire and Monsoons, DESI Resumes Cataloguing the Cosmos
October 7, 2022 / Lauren Biron / Berkeley Lab News Center ~ DESI Director Michael Levi is featured in this article about how the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) survived fire, rain, and mudslides to resume night sky observations on September 10, 2022. DESI is the heart of a next-generation sky survey that is creatingRead More
Berkeley Lab Researchers Record Successful Startup of LUX-ZEPLIN Dark Matter Detector at Sanford Underground Research Facility
July 7, 2022 / William Schultz / Berkeley Lab News Center ~ Berkeley Lab senior physicist and past LZ spokesperson Kevin Lesko is featured in this article about the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF), situated deep below the Black Hills of South Dakota, where Berkeley Lab’s LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Dark Matter Experiment, an innovative and uniquely sensitiveRead More