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Dark Fiber Lays Groundwork for Long-Distance Earthquake Detection and Groundwater Mapping

16 Elements: Berkeley Lab's Contributions to the Periodic Table

A tabletop covered in a collage of LBNL historic photos and schematics.

Berkeley Lab Researcher Wins Machine-Learning Competition With Code That Sorts Through Simulated Telescope Data

A rendering of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope's dome. (Credit: LSST Collaboration)

How to Escape a Black Hole: Simulations Provide New Clues to What’s Driving Powerful Plasma Jets

Image - This visualization of a general-relativistic collisionless plasma simulation shows the density of positrons near the event horizon of a rotating black hole. Plasma instabilities produce island-like structures in the region of intense electric current. (Credit: Kyle Parfrey et al./Berkeley Lab)

Berkeley Lab Pioneer in Synchrotron Techniques and Tools Receives DOE Secretary’s Award

Photo - Zahid Hussain holds his DOE Secretary's Distinguished Service Award certificate. (Credit: Berkeley Lab)

Scientists Team Up With Industry to Mass-Produce Detectors for Next-Gen Cosmic Experiment

Photo - Existing instrumentation at the Atacama Desert site where some of the CMB-S4 telecopes will be built. CMB-S4 will also include telescopes at the South Pole. (Photo courtesy of Aritoki Suzuki/Berkeley Lab)

Nanocrystals Get Better When They Double Up With MOFs

Revealing Hidden Spin: Unlocking New Paths Toward High-Temperature Superconductors

Greener Days Ahead for Carbon Fuels

Massive New Dark Matter Detector Gets Its ‘Eyes’

Photo - Researchers at Brown University assemble an array of photomultiplier tubes for the LUX-ZEPLIN dark matter search experiment. The first of two sets of the photomultiplier arrays arrived Friday at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in South Dakota. (Credit: Nick Dentamaro/Brown University)

Sierra Snowpack Could Drop Significantly By End of Century

Topological Matters: Toward a New Kind of Transistor

Photo - James Collins, a condensed matter researcher at Monash University in Australia, works on an experiment at Beamline 10.0.1, part of Berkeley Lab's Advanced Light Source. (Credit: Marilyn Chung)