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A Day in the Half-Life

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Berkeley Lab Scientists Receive Prestigious Five-Year Research Grant

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Cyclotron Road Announces 2022 Cohort of Scientist-Entrepreneur Fellows

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Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm visits Berkeley Lab

U.S. Secretary of Energy, Jennifer Granholm, speaks with scientists in from the Berkeley Lab's Joint Genome Institute.

Cyclotron Road Announces Newest Cohort of Entrepreneurial Fellows

2021 Cyclotron Road fellows: (top row) Antonio Baclig, Kezi Cheng, Jae Cho, Pete Christensen, Sam Green, Aaron Hall; (bottom row) Ben Jenett, Fatma Kaplan, David Mackanic, Ahmet Ozcan, Jimmy Rojas, Karl Cameron Schiller. (Courtesy of Cyclotron Road)

16 Elements: Berkeley Lab's Contributions to the Periodic Table

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NOvA Experiment Sees Strong Evidence for Antineutrino Oscillation

Photo - NOvA's far detector in Minnesota. At the Neutrino 2018 conference, Fermilab’s NOvA neutrino experiment announced that it had seen strong evidence of muon antineutrinos oscillating into electron antineutrinos over long distances. NOvA collaborated with the Department of Energy’s Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing program and Fermilab’s HEPCloud program to perform the largest-scale analysis ever to support the recent evidence. (Credit: Reidar Hahn/Fermilab)

From Moon Rocks to Space Dust: Berkeley Lab's Extraterrestrial Research

Photo - A blue crystal recovered from a meteorite that fell near Morocco in 1998. The scale bar represents 200 microns (millionths of a meter). Such crystals, which have been studied at Berkeley Lab, have been found to contain liquid water and complex organic compounds. (Credit: Queenie Chan/The Open University, U.K.)

Mapping a Mystery: New Instrument will Drill Down on Dark Energy Details

Photo - Kitt Peak National Observatory at dusk. DESI, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, is housed within the Mayall Telescope dome (right). (Credit: Marilyn Sargent/Berkeley Lab)

Filling in the Nuclear Data Gaps

Photo - Lee Bernstein, who leads the Nuclear Data Group in Berkeley Lab’s Nuclear Science Division, at the beam line in Cave 0 of the Lab’s 88-Inch Cyclotron. (Credit: Marilyn Chung/Berkeley Lab)

New Graphene-Based System Could Help Us ‘See’ Electrical Signaling in Heart and Nerve Cells

Image - This diagram shows the setup for an imaging method that mapped electrical signals using a sheet of graphene and an infrared laser. The laser was fired through a prism (lower left) onto a sheet of graphene. An electrode was used to send tiny electrical signals into a liquid solution (in cylinder atop the graphene), and a camera (lower right) was used to capture images mapping out these electrical signals. (Credit: Halleh Balch and Jason Horng/Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley)

Laser R&D Focuses on Next-Gen Particle Collider

Photo - Wim Leemans, director of Berkeley Lab's Accelerator Technology & Applied Physics Division, chats with graduate students Joost Daniels, left, and Kelly Swanson in the BELLA laser control room. Berkeley Lab’s BELLA Center is the site of a laser plasma wakefield acceleration R&D effort and other laser experiments that could help set the stage for a next-generation particle collider. (Credit: Paul Mueller)