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Lithium Doesn’t Crack Under Pressure, It Transforms

A sample of the mineral lepidolite, a key source of lithium, mined in Finland.

The ‘Little’ Computer Cluster That Could

Chart - This chart shows the physics collaborations that used PDSF over the years, with the heaviest usage by the STAR and ALICE collaborations. (Credit: Berkeley Lab)

Laser ‘Drill’ Sets a New World Record in Laser-Driven Electron Acceleration

Image - A snapshot of a plasma channel’s electron density profile (blue) formed inside a sapphire tube (gray) with the combination of an electrical discharge and an 8-nanosecond laser pulse (red, orange, yellow). This plasma channel was used to guide femtoseconds-long “driver” laser pulses from the BELLA petawatt laser system, which generated plasma waves and accelerated electrons to 8 billion electron volts in just 20 centimeters. (Credit: Gennadiy Bagdasarov/Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics; Anthony Gonsalves and Jean-Luc Vay/Berkeley Lab)

Big Data at the Atomic Scale: New Detector Reaches New Frontier in Speed

Photo - A technician works on the TEAM 0.5 microscope. The microscope has been upgraded with a superfast detector called the 4D Camera that can capture atomic-scale images in millionths-of-a-second increments. (Credit: Thor Swift/Berkeley Lab)

DOE to Build Next-Generation Supercomputer at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Photo - Saul Perlmutter

Berkeley Quantum to Accelerate Innovation in Quantum Information Science

Berkeley Lab's Molecular Foundry Nanofabrication clean room. (Credit: Berkeley Lab)

Q&A: Berkeley Lab’s Spencer Klein Talks About IceCube Then and Now, and What’s Next

Photo - Spencer Klein at the geographic South Pole in 2006. (Photo courtesy of Spencer Klein/Berkeley Lab)

IceCube Neutrinos Point to Long-Sought Cosmic Ray Accelerator

Image - In this artistic composition, based on a real image of the IceCube Lab at the South Pole, a distant source emits neutrinos that are detected below the ice by IceCube sensors, called digital optical modules (DOMs). (Credit: IceCube/NSF)

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)

Vote for Your Favorite Photos: 2018 Physics Photowalk Competition

Supercomputers Provide New Window Into the Life and Death of a Neutron

Image - In this illustration, the grid in the background represents the computational lattice that theoretical physicists used to calculate a particle property known as nucleon axial coupling. This property determines how a W boson (white wavy line) interacts with one of the quarks in a neutron (large transparent sphere in foreground), emitting an electron (large arrow) and antineutrino (dotted arrow) in a process called beta decay. This process transforms the neutron into a proton (distant transparent sphere). (Credit: Evan Berkowitz/Jülich Research Center, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

Dozens of Photographers Attend Berkeley Lab’s Physics Photowalk

Photo - Visiting photographers gather during the Berkeley Lab Photowalk on Wednesday, May 16. (Credit: Kelly J. Owen/Berkeley Lab)