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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

DESI Collaboration to Receive 2026 Berkeley Prize

Caption: DESI has made the largest 3D map of our universe to date and uses it to study dark energy. Earth is at the center in this animation, and every dot is a galaxy. Credit: DESI collaboration and KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/R. Proctor Alt text: Animation of points emanating in two cones from a center point.

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

Berkeley Lab hosts 2025 ‘Physics in and Through Cosmology’ Workshop

Group photo of 2025 'Physics in and Through Cosmology' Workshop participants. Credit: Thor Swift, Berkeley Lab

Magnets Could Unlock a New Way to Detect Gravitational Waves

Gravitational waves (blue lines) that pass through a magnet (orange) will cause it to oscillate, thereby generating an oscillating magnetic field that could be detected. In this way, large magnets can operate as Weber Bars. Image Credit: Nick Rodd, Berkeley Lab

Berkeley Lab hosts 2025 DESI Summer Collaboration Meeting

2025 DESI Summer Collaboration Meeting participants at Berkeley Lab, July 2025. (Credit: Tami Blackwell, Berkeley Lab)

Super Set of Supernovae Suggests Dark Energy Surprise

The bright dot of Supernova 1994D appears next to galaxy NGC 4526. Credit: NASA, ESA, The Hubble Key Project Team, and The High-Z Supernova Search Team Alt text: A white dot with diffraction spikes appears near a large swirling galaxy with a bright core.

Remembering Mary K. Gaillard

Mary K Gaillard teaching at UC Berkeley in the early 1980s. Courtesy of Emilio Segre archives, LBNL.

LZ's record-setting limits on dark matter interaction published in Physical Review Letters

Looking up into the LZ Outer Detector, used to veto external radioactivity that can mimic a dark matter signal. Credit: Matthew Kapust, Sanford Underground Research Facility

2025 Physical Sciences Area Strategic Plan

2025 Strategic Plan cover image close-up

Berkeley hosts Axion Dark Matter Workshop on May 7-9

Workshop participants gathered in Berkeley Lab’s Building 50 Auditorium. (Credit: Tony Spadafora, Berkeley Lab)

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