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Abstract artist’s concept of neutrino particles. CUORE Team Places New Limits on the Bizarre Behavior of Neutrinos Physicists are closing in on the true nature…
A visualization of the zero-energy electronic states – also known as a “Fermi surface” – from the kagome material studied by MIT’s Riccardo Comin and…
A model solar fuels device called a photoelectrochemical cell. A research team led by Francesca Toma, a staff scientist at the Liquid Sunlight Alliance in…
A Q&A with two scientists aiming to overcome limits in computing power and energy efficiency by designing new microchips. Our laptops and smartphones are compact…
DESI’s three-dimensional “CT scan” of the Universe. The earth is in the lower left, looking out over 5 billion light years in the direction of…
Artist’s rendering of autonomous, continuous “liquid robots” in an animated GIF. Credit: Jenny Nuss/Berkeley Lab By removing electricity from equation, discovery overcomes yearslong hurdle in…
Berkeley Lab researchers have reported a breakthrough in phase-change materials, which will improve the affordability of thermal energy storage. Phase-change materials can be added inside…
Scanning tunneling microscopy image of a zigzag graphene nanoribbon. Credit: Felix Fischer/Berkeley Lab Technique Tunes Into Graphene Nanoribbons’ Electronic Potential Ever since grapheneGraphene is an…
Samples of an all-season smart-roof coating designed to keep homes warm during the winter and cool during the summer – without consuming natural gas or…
A new study finds that plants are photosynthesizing more in response to more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, but nowhere near enough to remove all…
Geothermal power plants at the Salton Sea like this one, the John Featherstone plane, produce superheated brine, which is full of lithium and other minerals.…
Near elimination of air pollution from diesel-electric freight trains by 2025 is now possible by retrofitting them with battery tender cars. Berkeley Lab study shows…
Artist’s illustration of hydrodynamical behavior from an interacting ensemble of quantum spin defects in diamond. Credit: Norman Yao/Berkeley Lab Berkeley Lab-led research key to next-gen…

This Exotic Particle Had an Out-of-Body Experience – These Surprised Scientists Took a Picture of It
Artist’s illustration of ghost particles moving through a quantum spin liquid. Credit: Jenny Nuss/Berkeley Lab An unexpected finding by scientists at Berkeley Lab and UC…
An artistic rendering of antibodies surrounding a SARS-CoV-2 particle. An antibody therapy that appears to neutralize all known SARS-CoV-2Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)…
The SAIL site in Gothic, Colorado. Credit: Ken Williams/Berkeley Lab First-ever “bedrock-to-atmosphere” observation system could allow scientists to predict the future of water availability in…
Study authors (from left to right) Andrew K. Lau, Thomas Eng, and Deepanwita Banerjee stand in front of a two-liter bioreactor containing P. putida cells…
Berkeley Lab doctoral student Fumika Isono (center), BELLA Center Deputy Director Jeroen van Tilborg (right), and research scientist Sam Barber set up a novel laser…
This color-enhanced image, taken by scanning electron microscopy, shows huge quantities of SARS-CoV-2 particles (purple) that have burst out of kidney cells (green), which the…