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Dark Matter Experiment’s Central Component Takes a Deep Dive – Nearly a Mile Underground

Photo - The LUX-ZEPLIN cryostat, which houses the experiment’s main detector, is pictured here in a surface lab before its delivery underground. (Credit: Matthew Kapust/SURF)

DESI Opens Its 5,000 Eyes to Capture the Colors of the Cosmos

DESI first spectra

Study Reveals ‘Radical’ Wrinkle in Forming Complex Carbon Molecules in Space

Composite image: This composite image shows an illustration of a carbon-rich red giant star (bottom left) warming an exoplanet (middle) and an overlay of a newly found pathway that could enable complex carbons to form near these stars. (Credits: ESO/L. Calçada; Berkeley Lab, Florida International University, and University of Hawaii at Manoa)

VIDEO: Particle Accelerators Drive Decades of Discoveries at Berkeley Lab and Beyond

Image - Excellence in Accelerators video title screen

Some Assembly Required: Scientists Piece Together the Largest U.S.-Based Dark Matter Experiment

Upper and Lower PMT arrays during assembly

3 Sky Surveys Completed in Preparation for Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument

Photo - Bok and Mayall telescopes at Kitt Peak

What if Dark Matter is Lighter? Report Calls for Small Experiments to Broaden the Hunt

Photo - Junsong Lin, an affiliate in Berkeley Lab’s Physics Division and UC Berkeley postdoctoral researcher, holds components of a low-mass dark matter detector that is now in development at UC Berkeley. (Credit: Marilyn Chung/Berkeley Lab)

A New Filter to Better Map the Dark Universe

Photo illustration - Just as the wine glass distorts an image of the cosmic microwave background in this photo illustration, large objects like galaxy clusters and galaxies can similar distort this light to produce lensing effects. (Credit: Emmanuel Schaan and Simone Ferraro/Berkeley Lab)

VIDEO: The Making of the Largest 3D Map of the Universe

Image - In this video, DESI project participants share their insight and excitement about the project and its potential for new and unexpected discoveries. (Credit: Marilyn Chung/Berkeley Lab, DESI Collaboration)

Dark Energy Instrument’s Lenses See the Night Sky for the First Time

Berkeley Lab Researcher Wins Machine-Learning Competition With Code That Sorts Through Simulated Telescope Data

A rendering of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope's dome. (Credit: LSST Collaboration)

How to Escape a Black Hole: Simulations Provide New Clues to What’s Driving Powerful Plasma Jets

Image - This visualization of a general-relativistic collisionless plasma simulation shows the density of positrons near the event horizon of a rotating black hole. Plasma instabilities produce island-like structures in the region of intense electric current. (Credit: Kyle Parfrey et al./Berkeley Lab)