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Reiner Kruecken to Lead Berkeley Lab’s Nuclear Science Division

Reiner Kruecken

Are Heavy Metals Toxic? Scientists Find Surprising New Clues in Yeast

Do You Know the Way to Berkelium, Californium?

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Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Monitoring Capabilities Still in Use 10 Years After Fukushima Earthquake and Nuclear Power Plant Disaster

Image - A 3D cesium-137 contamination map in a bamboo forest in the Fukushima region obtained in 2017. This map was produced within 15 minutes using Berkeley Lab’s Scene Data Fusion technologies. The technologies provide detailed information about radioisotope-specific contamination critical in assessing the radiation and in guiding decontamination efforts, as well as making radiation “visible” in three dimensions to aid the understanding of citizens and communities. (Credit: Berkeley Lab)

Tantalizing Signs of Phase-change ‘Turbulence’ in RHIC Collisions

Image - The STAR detector at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory. (Credit: Brookhaven National Laboratory)

Two Berkeley Lab Scientists Honored with the Lawrence Award

Photo - Collage of three winners.

Scientists Recruit New Atomic Heavyweights in Targeted Fight Against Cancer

Three researchers wearing white lab coat, blue latex gloves, and shower caps working in a laboatory.

90 Years of Neutrino Science

Collage - A collection of images from past, present, and pending neutrino science experiments, including: Daya Bay, DUNE at LBNF, the Homestake experiment, IceCube, KamLAND, ProtoDUNE and SNO. Displayed in the background is the text of a letter that physicist Wolfgang Pauli had written on Dec. 4, 1930, postulating the existence of the neutrino.

A New Data Milestone for CUORE Experiment in Italy

Photo - Researchers work on the assembly of the CUORE experiment prior to its placement in a deep-chilling cryostat. (Credit: CUORE Collaboration)

9 Berkeley Lab Scientists Named 2020 AAAS Fellows

Photos - Berkeley Lab’s nine 2020 AAAS Fellows: (top row, from left to right) Wibe A. “Bert” de Jong, Spencer R. Klein, Sanjay Kumar, Mary E. Maxon, (bottom row, left to right) Esmond G. Ng, John Douglas Owens, Len Pennacchio, Robert Oliver Ritchie, and Peidong Yang.

GRETA, a 3D Gamma-Ray Detector, Gets Green Light to Move Forward

Image - This set of renderings shows the completed GRETA array (left, top and bottom). The detector is designed to open up, with each half retracting on a track. Samples can be placed at the center of the spherical array. The completed array will contain 120 high-purity germanium crystals. (Credit: GRETA collaboration)

New NSF Physics Frontier Center Will Focus on Neutron Star Modeling in ‘Gravitational Wave Era’

Image - This rendering shows the density of matter in the aftermath of two merged neutron stars, resulting in the formation of a black hole. (Credit: David Radice/Pennsylvania State University)