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A Flight Path to Physics Success

Photo - Sandra Miarecki boards a T-38 Talon aircraft during her time as a U.S. Air Force pilot.

Berkeley Lab Takes Home Four R&D 100 Awards for Cutting-Edge Technologies

Collage - Images from this year's Berkeley Lab R&D 100 awards.

Screening for Disease or Toxins in a Drop of Blood

The Puzzle to Plugging the Worst Natural Gas Release in History

Reimagining Hydrogen: A Small Molecule With Large-Scale Ideas

Berkeley Lab Tech Brings Nobel-Winning Cryo-EM Into Sharper Focus

Report: Compact, Precise Beam Could Aid in Nuclear Security

Shading and Lighting Retrofits Slash Energy Use in New York “Living Lab” Office Demonstration

Dark Matter Day Is Approaching … but Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark

Photo - Dark matter visualization. (Credit: Illustris Collaboration/Illustris Simulation)

R&D Effort Produces Magnetic Devices to Enable More Powerful X-ray Lasers

Image - A superconducting undulator prototype developed at Berkeley Lab. (Credit: Marilyn Chung/Berkeley Lab)

Berkeley Lab’s Open-Source Spinoff Serves Science

FIONA to Take on the Periodic Table’s Heavyweights

Photo - Berkeley Lab Scientists Jacklyn Gates, left, and Kenneth Gregorich work on FIONA, a new device at the Lab’s 88-Inch Cyclotron. FIONA is designed precisely measure the mass number of the periodic table’s superheavy elements, and could also be useful for other types of explorations of superheavy elements. (Credit: Marilyn Chung/Berkeley Lab)