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The ultimate cosmic question: How fast is the universe expanding?

New observations of distant galaxies could shake up the consensus view of the universe's expansion. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Berkeley Lab celebrates 2024 Dark Matter Day at the Lawrence Hall of Science and the Chabot Space and Science Center

Dan Kodroff, Taurean Zhang, Yue Wang, and Bahareh Ardestani hosted Berkeley Lab’s Dark Matter Day event at the Lawrence Hall of Science in Berkeley, CA, on October 31. Photo credit: Michelle Z. Rodriguez, Lawrence Hall of Science

DESI 3D Map of the Universe named one of Time Magazine's 'Best Inventions of 2024'

DESI has made the largest 3D map of our universe to date. Earth is at the center of this thin slice of the full map. In the magnified section, it is easy to see the underlying structure of matter in our universe. Credit: Claire Lamman/DESI collaboration; custom colormap package by cmastro

2024 Berkeley Lab Director’s Awards honor PSA staff members

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New QSA studies propel quantum research to address critical scientific challenges

Christian Bauer is a senior scientist at Berkeley Lab affiliated with QSA. Thor Swift/Berkeley Lab

2024 Berkeley Lab Research SLAM

2024 Berkeley Lab Research SLAM finalists: (top row, left to right) Gurjyot Sethi, Mauricio Ayllon Unzueta, Ivo Marković, Lisa Schlueter, Yumary Vasquez, and Laleh Coté; (bottom row, left to right) Saurabh Sawant, Satya Gontcho A Gontcho, Bri Finley, Dennis Noll, Nicholas Dale, and Anne Fortman. Image Credit: Berkeley Lab Elements

Magnifying Deep Space Through the 'Carousel Lens'

The Carousel Lens, as seen through the Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: William Sheu/UCLA

LZ Experiment Sets New Record in Search for Dark Matter

LZ’s central detector, the time projection chamber, in a surface lab clean room before delivery underground. Credit: Matthew Kapust/Sanford Underground Research Facility

DUNE Scientists Observe First Neutrinos with Prototype Detector at Fermilab

Berkeley Lab hosts 2024 ‘Physics in and Through Cosmology’ Workshop for high school teachers and students

Group photo of the 2024 Physics in and Through Cosmology Workshop participants. Photo: Thor Swift, Berkeley Lab

Go-to Particle Physics Reference Hits 100,000 Citations

PDG’s ‘Review of Particle Physics’ presentations in print and online. Credit: Paul Schaffner, Berkeley Lab

FCC Week 2024: What’s Left to Discover? Our Unknown Universe

KQED science and climate reporter Danielle Venton with Fabiola Gianotti, Director-General of CERN, and Hitoshi Murayama, a senior researcher in the Physics Division and chair of the 2023 P5 Committee.

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