Berkeley Lab Engineer designs hardware for the moon’s unforgiving environment Imagine survival in an environment of extremes: during the daytime, which is 14 Earth days long, temperatures climb to 127°C (260°F) while the relentless sun beats down with no cover. …
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Voices from the past get an AI assist Members of the IRENE project have recently used ChatGPT to analyse an 1800s sound recording, unlocking a new AI data analysis technique that could transform their research to uncover the sounds and …
Magnets Could Unlock a New Way to Detect Gravitational Waves A team of researchers at Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley has discovered a new way to search for gravitational waves that opens the door to building detectors that are deeply …
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LZ's record-setting limits on dark matter interaction published in PRL The LZ experiment’s record-setting limits on dark matter interactions, first announced last year, have now been published in Physical Review Letters (PRL). …
Berkeley hosts Axion Dark Matter Workshop on May 7-9 Berkeley Lab’s Physics Division and the UC Berkeley Physics Department hosted an Axion Dark Matter Workshop on May 7-9, 2025, to bring together experts focused on the discovery of axion dark …
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2025 ATLAS Masterclass in particle physics data analysis On Saturday, April 26, Berkeley Lab's Physics Division hosted the 2025 ATLAS Masterclass for students interested in high-energy particle physics. This year, 18 high school students (freshmen through seniors) participated in a …
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Berkeley Lab hosts 2024 PDG Collaboration and Advisory Committee Meetings Berkeley Lab hosted the Particle Data Group (PDG) Collaboration and Advisory Committee Meetings on November 20-22, 2024. The PDG is an international collaboration of 240 authors from 173 institutions in …
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DESI Opens Access to the Largest 3D Map of the Universe Yet The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) is mapping millions of celestial objects to better understand dark energy: the mysterious driver of our universe's accelerating expansion. Today, the DESI …
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New DESI Results Strengthen Hints That Dark Energy May Evolve The fate of the universe hinges on the balance between matter and dark energy: the fundamental ingredient that drives its accelerating expansion. New results from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument …
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Berkeley Lab has received funding to design an innovative mirror system for Spec-S5, a premier cosmology experiment that will see first light in the 2030s Our understanding of the universe and the effects of dark energy are progressing rapidly thanks …
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