Dr. Fabiola Gianotti, Director-General of CERN, the European laboratory for particle physics, joined Lab Director Mike Witherell for a fireside chat about her career, CERN, and the future of physics. An internationally recognized expert in particle physics, Dr. Gianotti is the first woman to lead CERN and the first Director-General to be reappointed for a full second term. She previously headed the ATLAS experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider during the discovery of the Higgs boson.

U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright spent the day at Berkeley Lab, engaging with scientists, touring key facilities, and walking a robotic dog fitted with a radiation sensor. The Secretary highlighted his lifelong passion for science, met with researchers across fields from biomanufacturing to geothermal, and toured world-class user facilities including NERSC, ESnet, JGI, ALS, and the Molecular Foundry. 

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory celebrates its 2025 Director's Award winners, including Lifetime Achievement Awardee Kevin Einsweiler. This year, the Lab was also awarded two "Citations for Chemical Breakthroughs" from The Division of the History of Chemistry of the American Chemical Society.

Formed from collapsed stars, pulsars are tiny astronomical objects that emit stunning, twin beams of light from each pole. Researcher Revathi Jambunathan is developing computer models of pulsars to answer questions about large-scale features, like their epic light displays and powerful electromagnetic fields, all the way down to the atomic-scale interactions of charged particles in the outer layer of plasma. This pioneering work will help us better understand the physics governing particles inside stars light years away, and those inside particle accelerators here on Earth.

For the first time, scientists streamed raw physics data across the entire country in real time, at 100 Gbps, with no buffering or temporal storage. The EJFAT prototype has been designed to allow different types of facilities like X-ray light sources and particle accelerators to stream data to multiple supercomputers for processing and analysis.  Successfully enabling such streaming means that researchers can more quickly and easily calibrate and steer time-sensitive experiments while they’re happening.  Learn more about this project here.

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