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Berkeley Lab’s Big Science Stories of 2022

An intern and her mentor looks at a petri dish in the lab.

Scientists Discover ‘Secret Sauce’ Behind Exotic Properties of New Quantum Material

A blue and white visualization of the zero-energy electronic states – also known as a “Fermi surface” – from the kagome material studied by MIT’s Riccardo Comin and colleagues.

Berkeley Lab Researchers, Computational Facilities Play Key Role in Barrier-Breaking Neutrino Mass Measurement

Experimental hall of the KATRIN experiment showing the main spectrometer from the front. The outside rings are air-coil magnets used to compensate for the earth's magnetic field.

Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Creates Largest 3D Map of the Cosmos

Scientific data plot. The earth is in the lower left, looking out in the directions of the constellations Virgo, Serpens and Hercules to distances beyond 5 billion light years. As this video progresses, the vantage point sweeps through 20 degrees towards the constellations Bootes and Corona Borealis. Each colored point represents a galaxy, which in turn is composed of 100 billion to 1 trillion stars. Gravity has clustered the galaxies into structures called the “cosmic web”, with dense clusters, filaments and voids.

Technique Tunes Into Graphene Nanoribbons’ Electronic Potential

Fiber Lasers Poised to Advance Berkeley Lab’s Development of Practical Laser-Plasma Accelerators

Photo of Berkeley Lab scientist Tong Zhou working on lasers at a lab table.

Physicists Snap First Image of an ‘Electron Ice’

This scanning tunneling microscope image of a graphene sheet reveals that a Wigner crystal – a honeycomb arrangement of electrons, like an electron ice – has formed inside a layered structure underneath. (Image by Hongyuan Li and Shaowei Li, courtesy of Nature)

Research Team Unlocks Secret Path to a Quantum Future

Artist’s illustration of hydrodynamical behavior from an interacting ensemble of quantum spin defects in diamond. (Credit: Norman Yao/Berkeley Lab)

Two Berkeley Lab Scientists Appointed to President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology

Saul Perlmutter and Inez Fung

How to Catch a Perfect Wave: Scientists Take a Closer Look Inside the Perfect Fluid

Mach wave quark-gluon plasma

Is Gravity a Quantum Force?

quantum gravity atomic interferometer

This Exotic Particle Had an Out-of-Body Experience; These Scientists Took a Picture of It

ghost particles quantum gif