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From Moon Rocks to Space Dust: Berkeley Lab's Extraterrestrial Research

Photo - A blue crystal recovered from a meteorite that fell near Morocco in 1998. The scale bar represents 200 microns (millionths of a meter). Such crystals, which have been studied at Berkeley Lab, have been found to contain liquid water and complex organic compounds. (Credit: Queenie Chan/The Open University, U.K.)

Experiments at Berkeley Lab Help Trace Interstellar Dust Back to Solar System’s Formation

Image - An elemental map of tiny glassy grains (blue with green specks) inside a cometary-type interplanetary dust particle. Carbonaceous material (red) holds these objects together. This image was collected from a thin section of the particle using a scanning transmission electron microscope. (Credit: Hope Ishii/University of Hawaii at Manoa, reproduced with permission from PNAS)

Non-Crystal Clarity: Scientists Find Ordered Magnetic Patterns in Disordered Magnetic Material

Image - In these rows of sequenced images, produced using X-ray-based techniques, the first column shows the demagnetized state of a multilayer material containing gadolinium and cobalt; the second column shows the residual magnetism in the same samples after an external, positive magnetic field was applied and then removed; and the last column shows the samples when a negative magnetic field is applied. The white arrows in the third row of images indicate gadolinium-rich regions in the material. (Credit: Berkeley Lab)

There’s a New Microscope in Town: ThemIS, anyone?

Photo - The high-stability, high-resolution Thermo Fischer “ThemIS” transmission electron microscope. (Credit: Marilyn Chung/Berkeley Lab)

Steve Kevan Named Next Director of Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source

Photo - Steve Kevan

‘Super Window’ Could Save $10 Billion Annually in Energy Costs

Mapping a Mystery: New Instrument will Drill Down on Dark Energy Details

Photo - Kitt Peak National Observatory at dusk. DESI, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, is housed within the Mayall Telescope dome (right). (Credit: Marilyn Sargent/Berkeley Lab)

Q&A: Berkeley Lab Physics Researcher Discusses New Higgs Boson Result

Photo - The ATLAS detector at CERN's Large Hadron Collider. (Credit: CERN)

Supercomputers Provide New Window Into the Life and Death of a Neutron

Image - In this illustration, the grid in the background represents the computational lattice that theoretical physicists used to calculate a particle property known as nucleon axial coupling. This property determines how a W boson (white wavy line) interacts with one of the quarks in a neutron (large transparent sphere in foreground), emitting an electron (large arrow) and antineutrino (dotted arrow) in a process called beta decay. This process transforms the neutron into a proton (distant transparent sphere). (Credit: Evan Berkowitz/Jülich Research Center, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

New Machine Learning Approach Could Accelerate Bioengineering

Graphene Layered With Magnetic Materials Could Drive Ultrathin Spintronics

Photo - Andreas Schmid, left, and Gong Chen are pictured here with the spin-polarized low-energy electron microscopy (SPLEEM) instrument at Berkeley Lab that was integral to magnetic measurements of ultrathin samples that included graphene and magnetic materials. (Credit: Roy Kaltschmidt/Berkeley Lab)

Dozens of Photographers Attend Berkeley Lab’s Physics Photowalk

Photo - Visiting photographers gather during the Berkeley Lab Photowalk on Wednesday, May 16. (Credit: Kelly J. Owen/Berkeley Lab)