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1. Article · Sep 10, 2026 · Litong Deng | Senior Staff

   Berkeley Lab scientists may be one step closer to unraveling a dark cosmic mystery (opens the original)

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   More than three years ago, nearly 1 mile underground in South Dakota, in a cryogenic cylindrical chamber roughly 100 degrees Celsius below zero, something hit an atomic nucleus. The collision emitted a flash of light that was recorded by a detector as part of the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment, or LZ, which seeks to directly detect dark matter for the first time. LZ’s scientists believe that today’s particles and processes might not be enough to explain the interaction. They are now cautiously optimi

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2. Article · Aug 31, 2026 · Litong Deng | Senior Staff

   Nonprofit newsroom CalMatters to sue UC Berkeley for student-athlete payment information (opens the original)

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   Nonprofit newsroom CalMatters is planning to sue UC Berkeley in an attempt to obtain public records data about how much the campus is paying its athletes. CalMatters’ initial attempts to obtain this information through public records requests were rejected by UCLA and UC Berkeley, both of which cited student-athlete privacy as well as not wanting teams and players to be put at a competitive disadvantage. The news organization has already sued UCLA for a similar reason and argues the taxpayer-f

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