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Laser R&D Focuses on Next-Gen Particle Collider

Photo - Wim Leemans, director of Berkeley Lab's Accelerator Technology & Applied Physics Division, chats with graduate students Joost Daniels, left, and Kelly Swanson in the BELLA laser control room. Berkeley Lab’s BELLA Center is the site of a laser plasma wakefield acceleration R&D effort and other laser experiments that could help set the stage for a next-generation particle collider. (Credit: Paul Mueller)

Finding Diamonds in the Rough

7 Imaging Tools Pushing Science Forward

Glowing Crystals Can Detect, Cleanse Contaminated Drinking Water

Genes, Early Environment Sculpt the Gut Microbiome

Scientists Trace ‘Poisoning’ in Chemical Reactions to the Atomic Scale

Image - A scanning electron microscopy (SEM) image showing a type of catalyst called a zeolite that is used to convert ethanol to high-value fuels. The particles measure about 15 microns in length. (Credit: PNNL)

Five Berkeley Lab Scientists Named AAAS Fellows

X-Rays Capture Unprecedented Images of Photosynthesis in Action

A New Understanding of Metastability Clears Path for Next-Generation Materials

Crop Yield Gets Boost with Modified Genes in Photosynthesis

3-D Imaging Technique Maps Migration of DNA-carrying Material at the Center of Cells

Image - This image shows the skeletonized structure of heterochromatin (red represents a thin region while white represents a thick region), a tightly packed form of DNA, surrounding another form of DNA-carrying material known as euchromatin (dark blue represents a thin region and yellow represent the thickest) in a mouse’s mature nerve cell. (Credit: Berkeley Lab, UCSF)

A New Way to Image Solar Cells in 3-D