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Particle Physics Turns to Quantum Computing for Solutions to Tomorrow’s Big-Data Problems

Image - Display of a simulated High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) collision event in an upgraded ATLAS detector. The event has an average of 200 collisions per particle bunch crossing. (Credit: ATLAS Collaboration/CERN)

Milestone in Advanced Light Source Upgrade Project Will Bring in a New Ring

Cutaway View of the ALS Showing a Rendering of the ALS Upgrade Project Components

‘Twas the Night Before the Periodic Table

A comedic reenactment of the night Dmitri Mendeleev dreamed up the periodic table of elements

Tiny Quantum Sensors Watch Materials Transform Under Pressure

UV diamond sensor

Freeze Frame: Scientists Capture Atomic-Scale Snapshots of Artificial Proteins

Rare Disease Q&A: What Rare Diseases Are and Why That Matters

Climate Change Expected to Shift Location of East Asian Monsoons

Ho Chi Minh City on a very rainy day.

Scientists Explore Egyptian Mummy Bones With X-Rays and Infrared Light to Gain New Insight on Ancient Life

Photo - Ahmed Elnewishy, an associate professor at Cairo University, holds a femur bone sample from mummified human remains that was studied at Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source synchrotron. Elneshy and Cairo University postdoctoral researcher Mohamed Kasem studied dozens of ancient Egyptian bone samples and some soil samples during a two-month visit made possible by a grant-supported program called LAAAMP. (Credit: Marilyn Sargent/Berkeley Lab)

A Game-Changing Test for Prion, Alzheimer’s, and Parkinson’s Diseases is on the Horizon

A digital model of a peptoid, bound to a magnetic bead, attaching on its other end to a prion protein aggregate

World-Leading Microscopes Take Candid Snapshots of Atoms in Their ‘Neighborhoods’

4D-STEM diffraction patterns

Machine Learning Algorithms Help Predict Traffic Headaches

Berkeley Lab Innovations Recognized With 3 R&D 100 Awards