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Scientists Decode the Origin of Universe’s Heavy Elements in the Light from a Neutron Star Merger

Image - Simulated merger of a pair of neutron stars. (Credit: Caltech)

New Simulations Could Help in Hunt for Massive Mergers of Neutron Stars, Black Holes

Image - This image shows the aftermath of a merger between a black hole and neutron star, 5.5 thousandths of a second after the event. This image shows the formation of a wide, hot disk and an inner disk of matter. (Credit: Classical and Quantum Gravity, DOI: 10.1088/1361-6382/aa573b)

Report: Compact, Precise Beam Could Aid in Nuclear Security

Heavy Particles Get Caught Up in the Flow

Image - The Heavy Flavor Tracker during insertion into the STAR detector. Pictured at bottom left is Howard Wieman, the designer of the HFT. (Credit: Leo Greiner/Berkeley Lab)

FIONA to Take on the Periodic Table’s Heavyweights

Photo - Berkeley Lab Scientists Jacklyn Gates, left, and Kenneth Gregorich work on FIONA, a new device at the Lab’s 88-Inch Cyclotron. FIONA is designed precisely measure the mass number of the periodic table’s superheavy elements, and could also be useful for other types of explorations of superheavy elements. (Credit: Marilyn Chung/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)

Berkeley Lab Awarded $4.6 Million for Transformational Agriculture Technologies

Simulations Show Swirling Rings, Whirlpool-Like Structure in Subatomic ‘Soup’

Image - This hydrodynamic simulation shows the flow patterns, or “vorticity distribution,” from a smoke ring-like swirling fluid around the beam direction of two colliding heavy ions. The simulation provides new insight about the properties of a superhot fluid known as the quark-gluon plasma. (Credit: Berkeley Lab)

Berkeley Lab Scientists Part of New Particle-hunting Season at CERN’s LHC

Image - A computerized representation of a proton-proton collision taken in the ALICE detector during the latest commissioning phase of CERN'S LHC, with low-intensity beams. (Credit: CERN)

Five Berkeley Lab Researchers Receive DOE Early Career Research Awards

Most Precise Measurement of Energy Range for Particles Produced by Nuclear Reactors Reveals Surprises

New Results from World’s Most Sensitive Dark Matter Detector