New results from the world’s most sensitive dark matter detector, LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ), have narrowed down possibilities for one of the leading dark matter candidates: weakly interacting massive particles, or WIMPs.

Coming online in 2025, the NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory's enormous, unrelenting eye on the sky will create the biggest, most data-rich movie ever made — a 10-year, high-precision chronicle of trillions of cosmic events and objects across space and time.

Rachel Siegel is among the 86 graduate students selected to participate in the Office of Science Graduate Research (SCGSR) program. According to the DOE, graduate students selected to participate in the program are working on research projects that address "critical energy, environmental and nuclear challenges at national and international scales.”