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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)

Massive New Dark Matter Detector Gets Its ‘Eyes’

Photo - Researchers at Brown University assemble an array of photomultiplier tubes for the LUX-ZEPLIN dark matter search experiment. The first of two sets of the photomultiplier arrays arrived Friday at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in South Dakota. (Credit: Nick Dentamaro/Brown University)

Topping Off a Telescope with New Tools to Explore Dark Energy

Photo - Crews at the Mayall Telescope near Tucson, Arizona, lift and install the top-end components for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, or DESI. The components, which include a stack of six lenses and other structures or positioning and support, weigh about 12 tons. DESI, scheduled to begin its sky survey next year, is designed to produce the largest 3-D map of the universe and produce new clues about the nature of dark energy. (Credit: David Sprayberry, NOAO/AURA)

Award Finalists Demonstrate Improved Nuclear Physics Code for Supercomputing

Photo - From left: David Brantley, André Walker-Loud, Pavlos Vranas, Henry Monge-Camacho, Thorsten Kurth, and Chia Cheng “Jason” Chang – pictured here at Berkeley Lab – participated in an international team that calculated the nucleon axial coupling, a property important to understanding the neutron lifetime. (Credit: Marilyn Chung/Berkeley Lab)

VIDEO: 5,000 Robots Merge to Map the Universe in 3D

Image - This three-minute video describes the focal plane, a key component for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument. The focal plane will be equipped with 5,000 swiveling robots that are designed to point at pre-selected galaxies and gather their light. The measurements will be used to build the largest 3D map of the universe. (Credit: Marilyn Chung/Berkeley Lab)

A Quantum Leap Toward Expanding the Search for Dark Matter

Image - A visualization of a massive galaxy cluster that shows dark matter density (purple filaments) overlaid with the gas velocity field. (Credit: Illustris Collaboration)

Berkeley Lab to Push Quantum Information Frontiers With New Programs in Computing, Physics, Materials, and Chemistry

Photo - A nanofabrication clean room at Berkeley Lab's Molecular Foundry. (Credit: Roy Kaltschmidt/Berkeley Lab)

First Particle Tracks Seen in ProtoDUNE: the Prototype for an International Neutrino Experiment

Photo - Inside the first ProtoDUNE detector, before it was filled with liquid argon. (Credit: CERN)

American Physical Society Publishes 60th Anniversary Edition of the Review of Particle Physics

Photo - Today marks the release of the 2018 print edition of the Review of Particle Physics. In this photo, a copy of the printed 2016 edition leans against a stack of previous editions in this photo, with the oldest issues at the bottom. (Credit: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.)

2018 Berkeley Lab Physics Photowalk Winners Announced

Photo - "Shyh Wang Hall and Campanile." (Credit: Michael Dawson)

A Supercool Component for a Next-Generation Dark Matter Experiment

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

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)