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Expert Interview: Soren Prestemon on Magnet Technology

Soren Prestemon looks over the winding tooling design used for the Electron Cyclotron Resonance sextupole magnets.

New small-batch chemical reactor design provides a springboard for science

Mechanical Engineer Nick Wenner, a member of the Engineering Small Project Support (EsPS) team, demonstrates the method for sealing each well in the small high-throughput pressure reactor he designed and built for use in specialized experiments.

Made in Berkeley Lab: the plasma chamber at the heart of heavy ion accelerators

A closeup view of the flange for the third-generation VENUS plasma chamber. The device was made in-house by the Engineering Division’s highly skilled technicians.

Senajith “Seno” Rekawa awarded ASPE 2025 Distinguished Service Award

Berkeley Lab Engineer Senajith “Seno” Rekawa (right) accepts the American Society of Precision Engineering (ASPE) 2025 Distinguished Service Award from Stuart Smith, Professor and President of ASPE, at a ceremony held on November 6 in San Diego, California.

Celebrating the life and work of Denis Peterson

Denis Peterson in his signature hat

Made in Berkeley Lab: design and fabrication do the heavy lifting

Close-up view of yellow X-shaped lifting fixture attached to top of equipment rack during crane operation in ALS

Visiting Antarctica in service of science

Berkeley Lab Electronics Engineer Thorsten Stezelberger places an antenna in a hole in the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica.

Berkeley Lab Engineer designs hardware for the moon’s unforgiving environment

Two researchers in PPE installing the central bearing assembly for the rotating carousel mechanism

Voices from the past get an AI assist

View of 19th-century wax recording disc from above

ATLAS’s upgraded support structure successfully integrated at CERN

The ATLAS ITk outer cylinder under construction with onlookers in the background

GRETA to Open a New Eye on the Nucleus

Close up of GRETA, showing a portion of the germanium crystals in modules

A delicate dance with 20-ton concrete blocks

Roof blocks being moved in ALS Sector 12 area

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