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Berkeley Lab Intern Finds Her Way in Particle Physics

Photo - Katie Dunne, left and mentor Maurice Garcia-Sciveres. (Credit: Marilyn Chung/Berkeley Lab)

How X-rays Pushed Topological Matter Research Over the Top

Image - Jonathan Denlinger, right, a staff scientist in the Scientific Support Group at the ALS, and Sooyoung Jang, a postdoctoral fellow, work at the MERLIN beamline at Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source in this 360-degree video. MERLIN (Beamline 4.0.3) specializes in X-ray techniques that explore the properties of complex materials, including topological materials. (Credit: Berkeley Lab Video Production)

Five Berkeley Lab Scientists Among New Fellows Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

New Measurements Suggest ‘Antineutrino Anomaly’ Fueled by Modeling Error

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

New Study Maps Space Dust in 3-D

Image - The dark regions show very dense dust clouds. The red stars tend to be reddened by dust, while the blue stars are in front of the dust clouds. These images are part of a survey of the southern galactic plane. (Credit: Legacy Survey/NOAO, AURA, NSF)

Attention Earthlings: Help Wanted in Finding a New Planet

Image - The public is now invited to participate in the hunt for a hypothetical ninth planet in our solar system, dubbed Planet Nine. This image shows an artist's concept of how Planet Nine may appear—if it exists. (Credit: NASA)

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)

7 Imaging Tools Pushing Science Forward

We Gather Here Today to Join Lasers and Anti-Lasers

Planetarium Show Brings ‘Phantom’ Matter to Life

Image - A pioneering dark matter discovery by astronomer Vera Rubin, who is shown in this rendering peering through a telescope, is described in a new planetarium show. (Credit: "Phantom of the Universe")

World’s Most Sensitive Dark Matter Detector Completes Search

Dark Energy Measured with Record-Breaking Map of 1.2 Million Galaxies