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Two researchers donning personal protective equipment inspect a mirror chamber used to create custom and dynamic illumination patterns for testing the limits of semiconductor materials. A dark corridor with faint lights glowing from devices on the walls leads to an open doorway glowing bright white. A white structure with a domed top on a rocky outcrop below a star-filled night sky. The Milky Way stretches vertically in a luminous band. Faint green glow tints the curved horizon. A long-exposure image captures circular star trails above telescope domes illuminated in red light on a dark mountain. A golden glow on the horizon marks distant city lights. Two researchers stand in a laboratory, with one holding the TESSERACT detector with gloved hands. A recipe for energy efficiency: an optical sensor that also processes data. The transparent dome represents interactions between photons (red and green) and the nanoscale elements on the substrate. Carbon nanotubes with quantum dots (small spheres) are shown connected to CMOS circuitry below. Three people in circular frames on a gradient background, all smiling. Four members of the BELLA team in an office sitting in chairs around the new gas injector system. Meteors from the Geminid meteor shower streak across the sky above the Nicholas U. Mayall 4-meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO). The Carousel Lens, an alignment consisting of 1 foreground galaxy cluster (the ‘lens’) and 7 background galaxies spanning immense cosmic distances through the gravitationally distorted space-time around the lens, as seen through the Hubble Space Telescope. Collage of three people's headshots against a blue and green background. A person in protective gear descending the stairs next to LZ's central detector, the time projection chamber, in a surface lab clean room before delivery underground.