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Category: Physical Sciences

Compute This: Six Ways Berkeley Lab is Shaping the Future of Microelectronics

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.

Harnessing Artificial Intelligence for High-Impact Science

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DESI Opens Access to the Largest 3D Map of the Universe Yet

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New DESI Results Strengthen Hints That Dark Energy May Evolve

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.

Small But Mighty: TESSERACT Joins the Hunt for Dark Matter

Two researchers stand in a laboratory, with one holding the TESSERACT detector with gloved hands.

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

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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

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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.