Berkeley Lab hosts CERN Director-General Fabiola Gianotti and EPP panelists for talks on the future of particle physics research Special guests Fabiola Gianotti, Michael Turner, and Maria Spiropulu visited Berkeley Lab on October 21 for a series of presentations and …
Dan Carney named one of Moore Foundation's 2025 Experimental Physics Investigators Dan Carney, a physicist in Berkeley Lab's Physics Division, has been named a Moore Foundation 2025 Experimental Physics Investigator, joining a cohort of 22 distinguished mid-career researchers who will …
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Berkeley Lab hosts 2025 DESI Summer Collaboration Meeting Over 175 researchers from around the world attended the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) 2025 Summer Collaboration Meeting at Berkeley Lab on July 8-11. …
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 …
DESI Collaboration to Receive2026 Berkeley Prize The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) collaboration will receive the 2026 Lancelot M. Berkeley–New York Community Trust Prize for Meritorious Work in Astronomy. Awarded annually since 2011 by the American Astronomical Society (AAS) and …
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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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