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The National Academy of Sciences Elects Two Berkeley Lab Researchers

Portraits of two male scientists on a blue-green gradient

DESI Completes Planned 3D Map of the Universe and Continues Exploring

Two fans of blue and white dots extending up and down from center on a black background.

Super Set of Supernovae Suggests Dark Energy Surprise

A white dot with diffraction spikes appears near a large swirling galaxy with a bright core.

Basics 2 Breakthroughs

Revathi Jambunathan typing on a laptop. A graphic depiction of a pulsar is in the background.

New DESI Results Strengthen Hints That Dark Energy May Evolve

A long-exposure image captures circular star trails above telescope domes illuminated in red light on a dark mountain. A golden glow on the horizon marks distant city lights.

DESI Opens Access to the Largest 3D Map of the Universe Yet

A white structure with a domed top on a rocky outcrop below a star-filled night sky. The Milky Way stretches vertically in a luminous band. Faint green glow tints the curved horizon.

New DESI Results Weigh In On Gravity

Meteors from the Geminid meteor shower streak across the sky above the Nicholas U. Mayall 4-meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO).

Magnifying Deep Space Through the 'Carousel Lens'

The Carousel Lens, an alignment consisting of 1 foreground galaxy cluster (the ‘lens’) and 7 background galaxies spanning immense cosmic distances through the gravitationally distorted space-time around the lens, as seen through the Hubble Space Telescope.

LZ Experiment Sets New Record in Search for Dark Matter

A person in protective gear descending the stairs next to LZ's central detector, the time projection chamber, in a surface lab clean room before delivery underground.

Revived Technology Used to Count Individual Photons from Distant Galaxies

The SOAR Telescope on Cerro Pachon in Chile.

First Results from DESI Make the Most Precise Measurement of Our Expanding Universe

A teal cosmic map of the universe on a black background. Earth is at the center of this thin slice of the full map. There is a magnified section showing the underlying structure of matter in our universe.

Newly Released Roadmap for Particle Physics Includes Support for Berkeley Lab Projects

Cover image for the 2023 P5 Report. An illustration of a blue and purple light coming out of a black hole. Two light beams are jutting out from the center toward the edges of the frame. The beam on the left is filled with moving blue orbs and the beam on the right is filled with two larger orbs containing small galaxy depictions.