Skip to main content

Category: Physical Sciences

Physicists Announce First Results from Daya Bay’s Final Dataset

Photomultiplier tubes, designed to pick up faint light signals from particle interactions, line the inside of a detector for the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino experiment.

Basics 2 Breakthroughs

Graphic collage of a person in PPE standing in front of a particle

CUORE Team Places New Limits on the Bizarre Behavior of Neutrinos

CUORE scientists Dr. Paolo Gorla (LNGS, left) and Dr. Lucia Canonica (MIT, right) inspect the CUORE cryogenic systems.

Berkeley Lab Team Hunts for Carbon in Soil Without Getting Their Hands Dirty

Scientific figure of soil imaging with neutrons.

A Laser-Powered Upgrade to Cancer Treatment

Three scientists in white lab suites inspect an accelerator.

Berkeley Lab Researchers, Computational Facilities Play Key Role in Barrier-Breaking Neutrino Mass Measurement

Experimental hall of the KATRIN experiment showing the main spectrometer from the front. The outside rings are air-coil magnets used to compensate for the earth's magnetic field.

Reiner Kruecken to Lead Berkeley Lab’s Nuclear Science Division

Reiner Kruecken

Three Berkeley Lab Scientists Receive AAAS Fellowship

White text and logo on a blue background that says AAAS

Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Creates Largest 3D Map of the Cosmos

Scientific data plot. The earth is in the lower left, looking out in the directions of the constellations Virgo, Serpens and Hercules to distances beyond 5 billion light years. As this video progresses, the vantage point sweeps through 20 degrees towards the constellations Bootes and Corona Borealis. Each colored point represents a galaxy, which in turn is composed of 100 billion to 1 trillion stars. Gravity has clustered the galaxies into structures called the “cosmic web”, with dense clusters, filaments and voids.

Technique Tunes Into Graphene Nanoribbons’ Electronic Potential

Berkeley Lab’s Top 10 Science Stories of 2021

Photo of scientists with a graphic overlay with the text "top 10 science stories of 2021"

Fiber Lasers Poised to Advance Berkeley Lab’s Development of Practical Laser-Plasma Accelerators

Photo of Berkeley Lab scientist Tong Zhou working on lasers at a lab table.