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Scientists Get Real-Time Look Inside Spacecraft Heat Shields During Extreme Heat Conditions

A large circular heat shield with a tiled pattern that shows dark burn marks from the center, mounted on a metal frame in a lab.

A New Close-Up View of Electrons Inside Semiconductors

Two side-by-side microscopic thermal-style maps showing bright yellow, orange, and purple glowing nodes connected by network-like filaments against a black background. Each image includes a white scale bar labeled "20 nm" in the bottom right. The left image contains tiny red flower-like markers scattered throughout, while the right image contains small yellow star icons in similar positions.

Ferroelectricity Emerges at the Nanoscale

Left: Cross-sectional electron microscopy image showing one-nanometer-thick titanium dioxide film grown on a silicon substrate and capped with platinum metal. Right: Schematic detailing titanium dioxide layers deposited on silicon.

New AI Modeling Approach Accelerates the Development of Advanced Materials

Three scientists at at the A-Lab facility

Pulling Graphite Out of Thin Air

Collage of phones, batteries, and a computer. Chunks of graphite are highlighted in a blue circle.

Combatting Antibiotic Resistance with Nanotechnology, Robotics, and AI

A robot arm drops liquid onto an endless conveyor belt of tiny chip devices. Inset images show these chips each hold many individual droplets arranged in a grid, and within this liquid, bacteriophages are attacking a bacteria.

Berkeley Lab’s Kristin Persson Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Persson in her office surrounded by ball-and-stick models of molecules

Three Berkeley Lab Researchers Named AAAS Fellows

Three portraits of different scientists on a blue-green gradient background

New Electron Microscopy Technique Reveals Atomic Structures From Nanocrystals Once Considered Unsolvable

Two researchers adjusting the controls of a complex imaging instrument.

Basics 2 Breakthroughs: Optimizing Materials for Next-Generation Microelectronics

A collage image of a research adjusting an experiment. The research and experiment are superimposed over a teal background with a microchips.

Science on the Double: How an AI-Powered 'Digital Twin' Accelerates Chemistry and Materials Discoveries

A closeup view of an amber colored sample holder from outside of a viewing window.

Crunching Big Data Into 3D Images Accelerates Discovery

A red and orange volume visualization of the porous transport layer from a water electrolyzer.