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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. Water molecules Photo - A new wheel-shaped muon detector is part of the ATLAS detector upgrade at CERN. This wheel-shaped detectors measures more than 30 feet in diameter. (Credit: Julien Marius Ordan/CERN) 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) Photo - Berkeley Lab’s BELLA Center houses the BELLA petawatt laser, shown here, and a 100-terawatt-class laser. (Credit: Roy Kaltschmidt/Berkeley Lab) Images - These images show the diabolical ironclad beetle (top left) and how its abdomen (top middle and right) contains an internal architecture (bottom) featuring puzzle piece-like joints (bottom left) that make it incredibly crush-resistant. (Credit: UC Irvine)