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DESI Team Prepares for Telescope Instrument’s Restart after Unexpected Shutdown

Photo - DESI is installed within the dome of the Mayall Telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory near Tucson, Arizona. (Credit: Marilyn Sargent/Berkeley Lab)

This COVID-19 Detector Has Berkeley Lab Roots

Illustration of carbon nanotube as a COVID-19 detector. (Credit: Zettl Research Group/Berkeley Lab)

Using Machine Learning to Estimate COVID-19’s Seasonal Cycle

map of the worldwide incidence rate of COVID-19

X-ray Experiments Zero in on COVID-19 Antibodies

This transmission electron microscope image shows SARS-CoV-2—also known as 2019-nCoV, the virus that causes COVID-19—isolated from a patient in the U.S.

Masks On, Ready to Work: Meet the People Supporting COVID-19 Science

Seeing the Universe Through New Lenses

Images - The colorized images, identified in the study as possible gravitational lenses, in side-by-side comparisons with more recent Hubble Space Telescope images (black and white). (Credits: Hubble Space Telescope, Dark Energy Camera Legacy Survey)

Making Quantum ‘Waves’ in Ultrathin Materials

Illustration: Plasmon waves (shown as concentric red and blue rings), created by an ultrafast laser pulse coupled to an atomic-force microscopy tip, move slowly across a monolayer of tantalum disulfide. (Courtesy of Felipe da Jornada)

New Research Launched on Airborne Virus Transmission in Buildings

photo of FLEXLAB interior

CUORE Underground Experiment in Italy Carries on Despite Pandemic

Image - Laura Marini, a CUORE run coordinator, visits the CUORE experiment site at Gran Sasso Laboratory in Italy. (Credit: Gran Sasso National Laboratory – INFN)

Making a Material World Better, Faster Now: Q&A With Materials Project Director Kristin Persson

Persson machine learning

Study: Could Dark Matter Be Hiding in Existing Data?

Image - This image, produced by the Millennium-II Simulation, shows the evolution of dark matter in the universe. (Credit: Milennium-II Simulation)

Berkeley Lab Researchers and Collaborators Elected into National Academy of Sciences