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First U.S.-Built Focusing Magnet for LHC Upgrade Arrives at CERN

Close-up of the U.S.-built HL-LHC magnet with signatures and a U.S. flag.

Berkeley Lab’s Big Science Stories of 2023

Photo collage mixed with four solid color squares. Photos depict a photon, an autonomous lab, a chip manufacturing and testing facility, a radio on the dark side of the moon, and a nano shot of a colorful material.

Biofuels and Carbon Crops Take Flight

Digital collage of a plane flying through the air fueled by crops.

Newly Released Roadmap for Particle Physics Includes Support for Berkeley Lab Projects

Cover image for the 2023 P5 Report. An illustration of a blue and purple light coming out of a black hole. Two light beams are jutting out from the center toward the edges of the frame. The beam on the left is filled with moving blue orbs and the beam on the right is filled with two larger orbs containing small galaxy depictions.

Ashok Gadgil Elected to National Academy of Inventors

Ashok Gadgil, Physicist Senior Faculty Scientist/Engineer, Energy Technologies Area (ETA), photographed with the UV Waterworks device, a low-cost and efficient water purifier that utilizes ultra-violet light to render viruses and bacteria harmless, at his lab on the UC Berkeley campus, Berkeley, California, 03/27/2023.

Berkeley Lab Led Analysis Confirms California’s Salton Sea Region to Be a Rich Domestic Lithium Resource

A flyover image of a Salton Sea lithium plant.

Learning From the Past: How Algae Use Memory to Protect Against Sudden Changes in Sunlight

Closeup swamp wetland: shadows from plants on water surface covered with duckweed.

How FLEXLAB® Is Helping to Decarbonize the Grid, Communities, and Buildings

Aerial photograph of the FLEXLAB complex

An Unexpected Discovery at the Air-Water Interface

Split shot, over under water surface. Defocused fish under the waterline with an island on the surface during a dramatic sunrise.

Google DeepMind Adds Nearly 400,000 New Compounds to Berkeley Lab’s Materials Project

Structures of 12 compounds in the Materials Project database.

Putting an End to Plastic Separation Anxiety

A cartoon-style graphic of a woman in green holding a plastic cup looking at a range of different gray recycling bins with piles of multicolored waste piled around them.

Basics 2 Breakthroughs

Collage image of a scientist and sorghum plants overlaid on a teal background.