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When Semiconductors Stick Together, Materials Go Quantum

How to Catch a Magnetic Monopole in the Act

Laser ‘Drill’ Sets a New World Record in Laser-Driven Electron Acceleration

Image - A snapshot of a plasma channel’s electron density profile (blue) formed inside a sapphire tube (gray) with the combination of an electrical discharge and an 8-nanosecond laser pulse (red, orange, yellow). This plasma channel was used to guide femtoseconds-long “driver” laser pulses from the BELLA petawatt laser system, which generated plasma waves and accelerated electrons to 8 billion electron volts in just 20 centimeters. (Credit: Gennadiy Bagdasarov/Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics; Anthony Gonsalves and Jean-Luc Vay/Berkeley Lab)

Big Data at the Atomic Scale: New Detector Reaches New Frontier in Speed

Photo - A technician works on the TEAM 0.5 microscope. The microscope has been upgraded with a superfast detector called the 4D Camera that can capture atomic-scale images in millionths-of-a-second increments. (Credit: Thor Swift/Berkeley Lab)

New Molecular Blueprint Advances Our Understanding of Photosynthesis

Image - The cryo-EM structure of the NAD(P)H dehydrogenase-like complex (NDH). The atomic coordinate model shown as spheres, colored according to the different subunits, in front of an electron micrograph of frozen NDH particles in the background. (Credit: Thomas Laughlin/UC Berkeley and Berkeley Lab)

Preparing for a New Tool to Study the ‘Glue That Binds Us All’

Image - At left is a 1980s conception of the structure of the proton, which is a positively charged particle found in atomic nuclei. At right is our current understanding of the various subatomic particles – including quarks, antiquarks, and gluons – that make up the proton and contribute to a fundamental property known as spin. (Credit: Z.-E. Meziani)

New Measurements of Exotic Form of Magnesium Suggest a Surprising Shape-Shift

Photo - This instrumentation at Japan's Radioactive Isotope Beam Factory in Wako, Japan. (Credit: RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science)

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

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)

Nanocrystals Get Better When They Double Up With MOFs