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Let There Be (More) Light

Berkeley Lab Awarded DOE Grants for Greener Buildings

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Experts Anticipate Significant Continued Reductions in Wind Energy Costs

Wind turbines along a hill

Teams of Scientists Gather at Berkeley Lab to Study Secrets of Plants’ Plumbing

Photo - Thorsten Knipfer, a UC Davis postdoctoral researcher, carries an American chestnut sapling into the experimental chamber at Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source. Knipfer and other researchers used X-rays at ALS Beamline 8.3.2 to scan the stems of dozens of saplings. The work will produce 3-D reconstructions of the stems’ microscopic structure. (Credit: Marilyn Chung/Berkeley Lab)

Berkeley Lab to Lead 5 Exascale Projects, Support 6 Others

Accelerator Operator Stitches Together Storied Career at Bevatron, Cyclotron

Photo - Reba Siero, an accelerator operator, in the control room of Berkeley Lab’s 88-Inch Cyclotron. (Credit: Paul Mueller/Berkeley Lab)

Researchers Peel Back Another Layer of Chemistry with ‘Tender’ X-rays

Photo - Berkeley Lab's Ethan Crumlin, working with other researchers, found a new way to study chemical processes at work in batteries and in other chemical reactions using a specialized X-ray toolkit developed at the lab's Advanced Light Source, an X-ray source. The technique was pioneered at the ALS's Beam Line 9.3.1. (Credit: Marilyn Chung/Berkeley Lab)