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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

Q&A with Berkeley Lab Nuclear Scientist Maria Żurek

Photo - Maria Zurek, right, speaks during a discussion panel at the Linda Nobel Laureates Meeting. (Credit: Julia Nimke/Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting)

Two Berkeley Lab Researchers Receive DOE Early Career Research Awards

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

Upper and Lower PMT arrays during assembly

Simons Foundation Contributes $20M More to Observatory Exploring Early Universe

The site of Simons Observatory in the Atacama Desert in Chile. (Credit: Copyright Debra Kellner/Simons Foundation)

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)

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)

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

Setting a ‘Gold Standard’ for Ultrasensitive Particle Detectors

Photo - Alan “Al” Smith places an aluminum sample exposed to radiation at Berkeley Lab’s Bevatron accelerator into a lead and concrete box containing a detector at a low-level radiation counting facility in this 1950s photograph. (Credit: Berkeley Lab)