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Category: Physical Sciences

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.

Cabling for LHC Upgrade Wraps Up

Looped GIF of wire winding.

Advances in Quantum Emitters Mark Progress Toward a Quantum Internet

Members of the team that conducted the research in the Lab.

Berkeley Lab Researchers Receive DOE Early Career Research Awards

DESI Early Data Release Holds Nearly Two Million Objects

A 3D map of space, with streams of light pointing in different directions from a central focal point. Researchers took detailed images in 20 different directions on the sky, creating a 3D map of 700,000 objects and covering roughly 1% of the total volume DESI will study.

Fusion Q&A: The Path Forward

Reed Teyber, a research scientist, works a device he developed for measuring high-temperature superconducting magnets, at a machine shop in Building 58 at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Seven Ways Berkeley Lab Researchers Improve Health for All

A digital illustration showing red virus particles each with a geometrically shaped capsule, stalk, and leg-like appendages attached to the surface of a green bacterium.

Darleane Hoffman and Gabor Somorjai Receive the Enrico Fermi Presidential Award

Collage of two images. From left: Darleane Hoffman, Gabor Somorjai.

New DESI Planetarium Show to Premiere in Spring 2023

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) atop Kitt Peak.