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Category: Physical Sciences

A New Approach to Efficient Optoelectronics, Inspired by the Human Eye

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 Berkeley Lab Scientists Receive PECASE Award

Three people in circular frames on a gradient background, all smiling.

Milestone 10-GeV Experiment Shines Light on Laser-Plasma Interactions

Four members of the BELLA team in an office sitting in chairs around the new gas injector system.

New DESI Results Weigh In On Gravity

Meteors from the Geminid meteor shower streak across the sky above the Nicholas U. Mayall 4-meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO).

Magnifying Deep Space Through the 'Carousel Lens'

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.

Berkeley Lab Researchers Receive DOE Early Career Research Awards

Collage of three people's headshots against a blue and green background.

LZ Experiment Sets New Record in Search for Dark Matter

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.

Daniela Leitner Named Berkeley Lab’s Next Engineering Division Director and Chief Engineer

Daniela Leitner, a person with short brown hair wearing a white cardigan over a blue top and a gold necklace, photographed outdoors.

DUNE Scientists Observe First Neutrinos with Prototype Detector at Fermilab

Two scientists in hard hats working on the 2x2 prototype detector for the DUNE near detector.

Go-To Particle Physics Reference Hits 100,000 Citations

Collage of PDG's 'Review of Particle Physics' presentations in print and online, with sample code labeled PDG API in the center, on a blue background.

A New Way to Make Element 116 Opens the Door to Heavier Atoms

Scientist Jacklyn Gates at the Berkeley Gas-filled Separator used to separate atoms of element 116, livermorium.

Revived Technology Used to Count Individual Photons from Distant Galaxies

The SOAR Telescope on Cerro Pachon in Chile.