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Category: Physical Sciences

New Technique Could Help Build Quantum Computers of the Future

A person testing electronics that are part of the experimental setup used for making qubits in silicon in a lab.

Three Berkeley Lab Scientists Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Collage of the three Berkeley Lab scientists elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. From left: Polly Arnold, Uroš Seljak, and Irfan Siddiqi.

Five Berkeley Lab Scientists Named AAAS Fellows

Berkeley Lab AAAS fellows, from left: Michael Levi, Jian-Hua Mao, Trent Northen, Alan Poon, Sayeef Salahuddin

First Results from DESI Make the Most Precise Measurement of Our Expanding Universe

A teal cosmic map of the universe on a black background. Earth is at the center of this thin slice of the full map. There is a magnified section showing the underlying structure of matter in our universe.

Preventing Magnet Meltdowns Before They Can Start

Two men seated at a table with computer monitors in the background, discussing a 3 x 14 inch plate mounted with a strip of gray metal and a strip of copper metal with wires protruding from the ends.

First U.S.-Built Focusing Magnet for LHC Upgrade Arrives at CERN

Close-up of the U.S.-built HL-LHC magnet with signatures and a U.S. flag.

Newly Released Roadmap for Particle Physics Includes Support for Berkeley Lab Projects

Cover image for the 2023 P5 Report. An illustration of a blue and purple light coming out of a black hole. Two light beams are jutting out from the center toward the edges of the frame. The beam on the left is filled with moving blue orbs and the beam on the right is filled with two larger orbs containing small galaxy depictions.

Experiment to Capture Universe’s Earliest Moments Reaches Funding Milestone

Telescopes at the South Pole against starry skies.

New Map of Space Precisely Measures Nearly 400,000 Nearby Galaxies

NGC 520, one of the largest and brightest galaxies in the Siena Galaxy Atlas.

Making Rad Maps With Robot Dogs

Brian Quiter (left) and Kushant Patel test the physical coupling of a radiation imaging system with a Boston Dynamics Spot Robot.

Listening to the Radio on the Far Side of the Moon

This artist’s rendering shows LuSEE-Night atop the Blue Ghost spacecraft scheduled to deliver the experiment to the far side of the moon.

SLAC Fires Up the World’s Most Powerful X-Ray Laser: LCLS-II Ushers in a New Era of Science

The newly upgraded Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) X-ray free-electron laser (XFEL) at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.