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VIDEO: Dark Matter Day Q&A with LUX-ZEPLIN Spokesperson Kevin Lesko

Photo - A worker inspects the titanium cryostat for the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment in a clean room. (Credit: STFC)

Berkeley Lab Scientists Contribute to New Exploration of Higgs Boson Interactions

Image - A display of a candidate Higgs boson event at CERN’s ATLAS experiment in which a Higgs boson decays to two muons. The muons appear as red tracks in this rendering. (Credit: ATLAS collaboration)

Shhh! These Tests Will Enable a Quieter Search for Dark Matter

Image - Brianna Mount, assistant professor of physics at Black Hills State University, at work in the Black Hills State University Underground Campus (BHUC) at Sanford Lab, where components of the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment were tested to learn the background radioactivity of the materials. (Credit: Matthew Kapust/Sanford Lab)

Berkeley Team Plays Key Role in Analysis of Particle Interactions That Produce Matter From Light

Image - This image shows a reconstruction of a particle interactions event at CERN’s ATLAS detector that produced W bosons from photons, particles of light. (Credit: ATLAS collaboration)

CERN’s Large Hadron Collider Creates Matter From Light

Photo - The ATLAS detector at CERN's Large Hadron Collider. (Credit: CERN)

Lead Lab Selected for Next-Generation Cosmic Microwave Background Experiment

Photo - This image, from “Eternal Sky,” a video series about the Simons Observatory, shows the Atacama Desert site where some of the telescopes for the CMB-S4 experiment will be built. (Credit: Copyright Debra Kellner/Simons Foundation)

International Physicists Join Forces in Hunt for Sterile Neutrinos

Another Win for the Standard Model: New Study Defies Decades-Old ‘Discrepancy’ With High-Precision Measurement

Photo - The ATLAS detector at CERN's Large Hadron Collider. (Credit: CERN)

Natalie Roe Named Berkeley Lab’s Associate Director for Physical Sciences 

Image - Natalie Roe

VIDEOS: Science Collaborations Find a Way During COVID-19 Pandemic

In International Physics Collaborations, Working Remotely Is Nothing New

Photo - The CERN Control Center is nearly empty due to a temporary shutdown in most operations in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. (Credit: Michael Struik/CERN)

Daya Bay Reactor Experiment Continues to Generate Data

Photo - Antineutrino detectors are submersed in liquid at the Daya Bay experiment, as seen during the final phase of construction in August 2012. (Credit: Roy Kaltschmidt/Berkeley Lab)