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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.

A Community Approach to Fixing Biology’s Big Data Problems

An illustration showing three human figures, one in snow, one in a marsh, and one by a wooded stream. All are collected data in the field.

Scaling Up Nano for Sustainable Manufacturing

Transmission electron microscope (TEM) images of the new 2D nanosheet as a barrier coating that self-assembles on a variety of substrates: a Teflon beaker and membrane, polyester film, thick and thin silicon films, and glass.

Why Do Batteries Sometimes Catch Fire and Explode?

KIA NIRO electric car is charging on street parking lot of Lindholmen, Gothenburg

Experiment to Capture Universe’s Earliest Moments Reaches Funding Milestone

Telescopes at the South Pole against starry skies.

ESnet Turns On 400G Circuits to Four DOE National Labs, Supercharging Multi-Site Scientific Research

A map of the ESnet6 network showing the locations of the four sites with 400G capability in orange and the two in progress in yellow.

‘Have the Intentions and the Solutions Will Be There’: Ashok Gadgil on Helping the Developing World

Ashok Gadgil wearing a black suit jacket and white collared shirt, photographed in his lab.