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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)

Berkeley Lab hosts 2025 ATLAS Masterclass in particle physics data analysis

ATLAS Masterclass students work on the data analysis activity with help from volunteers. Credit: Anne Fortman, Berkeley Lab

Harnessing Artificial Intelligence for High-Impact Science

An artistic rendition of a data center where the components of a supercomputer are housed. (Credit: jamesteohart, Shutterstock) – ALT: A dark corridor with faint lights glowing from devices on the walls leads to an open doorway glowing bright white.

Seven Ways Berkeley Lab is Pioneering the Quantum Future

ALT: A researcher in a lab crouched below a silver and gold quantum computer. They are making adjustments to the bottom edge.

ATLAS and ALICE collaborations receive 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics

Left: One of the early collision events with stable beams recorded by ATLAS on April 23, 2016, with two reconstructed muon candidates (Image: CERN). Right: Lead-lead collisions at the Large Hadron Collider at 5.02TeV per nucleon pair in the center of mass, recorded by the ALICE detector in 2018 (Image: David Dobrigkeit Chinellato and Tapan Nayak). Background: Breakthrough Prize logo (Image: Breakthrough Prize Foundation).

DESI Shakes up the Dark Universe

Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille (Credit: APS TV)

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