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Safely Studying Dangerous Infections Just Got a Lot Easier

Seven illustrations of cells infected with SARS-CoV-2, created from soft X-ray tomography

To Speed Discovery, Infrared Microscopy Goes ‘Off the Grid’

A COSMIC Approach to Nanoscale Science

Rendering - At the COSMIC Microscopy beamline, researchers probed the oxidation state of the chemical element cerium using scanning transmission x-ray microscopy (STXM) under operando conditions. It was a first demonstration of this capability at COSMIC. The results confirmed how cerium particles dictated the size and locations of the reaction sites of platinum particles. In this artistic depiction, hybrid CeOX-TiO2 nanoparticles (silver spheres) are shown evenly covered with platinum and cerium pairs (yellow and blue) while conventional titanium dioxide particles are shown less densely covered with larger platinum clusters (gold). (Credit: Chungnam National University)

VIDEO: On the Line: Watching Nanoparticles Get in Shape

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Chasing Their Tails but Getting Somewhere: Reimagining the Shape of Noise Leads to Improved Molecular Models

Berkeley Lab intern and scientist working together on algorithms for crystallography

Focusing in on Aquatic Microbes: Berkeley Lab Scientists Receive Grant for New Microscopy Approach

Photosynthetic algae

New Algorithm Sharpens Focus of World’s Most Powerful Microscopes

Cryo-electron microscopy images showing resolution improvement

This Enigmatic Protein Sculpts DNA to Repair Harmful Damage

Scientists Capture 3D Images of Nanoparticles, Atom by Atom, With Unprecedented Precision

3D images of platinum particles

When Solids and Liquids Meet: In Nanoscale Detail

Illustration - Infrared light is focused onto the sharp metallic tip of an atomic force microscope, enabling the acquisition of vibrational spectra from a graphene-liquid interface. (Credit: Artem Baskin, Jonathon Larson/Berkeley Lab)

Big Data at the Atomic Scale: New Detector Reaches New Frontier in Speed

Photo - A technician works on the TEAM 0.5 microscope. The microscope has been upgraded with a superfast detector called the 4D Camera that can capture atomic-scale images in millionths-of-a-second increments. (Credit: Thor Swift/Berkeley Lab)

Experiments at Berkeley Lab Help Trace Interstellar Dust Back to Solar System’s Formation

Image - An elemental map of tiny glassy grains (blue with green specks) inside a cometary-type interplanetary dust particle. Carbonaceous material (red) holds these objects together. This image was collected from a thin section of the particle using a scanning transmission electron microscope. (Credit: Hope Ishii/University of Hawaii at Manoa, reproduced with permission from PNAS)