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Image - This image shows a reconstruction of a particle interactions event at CERN’s ATLAS detector that produced W bosons from photons, particles of light. (Credit: ATLAS collaboration) Photo - The ATLAS detector at CERN's Large Hadron Collider. (Credit: CERN) Photo - This image, from “Eternal Sky,” a video series about the Simons Observatory, shows the Atacama Desert site where some of the telescopes for the CMB-S4 experiment will be built. (Credit: Copyright Debra Kellner/Simons Foundation) Photo - This image, taken from a drone video of the Berkeley Lab site, shows the domed Advanced Light Source building at right, among other buildings at the site. (Credit: Thor Swift/Berkeley Lab) Collage - A collage showing the first six posters in Ana Lyons' series honoring black physicists. (Credit: Ana Lyons) A supercomputing circuit, stored inside a special cooling chamber Photo - Proton-beam therapy at the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland. A Berkeley Lab researcher is working with PSI and Varian Medical Systems to develop a new system with improve beam performance. (Credit: Center for Proton Therapy/PSI) Electron microscopy experiments revealed meandering stripes formed by metal atoms of rhenium and niobium in the lattice structure of a 2D transition metal dichalcogenide alloy. (Image courtesy of Amin Azizi) To make the new material, the thin film is first deposited via a pulsed-laser deposition process in this chamber. The bright “plume” you see is the laser hitting the target and depositing the material. panoramic view of SF Bay on clear vs polluted days 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)