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R&D 100 Awards Honor Berkeley Lab Innovations

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How Scientists Are Helping Cities Adapt to Extreme Heat

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Advances in Quantum Emitters Mark Progress Toward a Quantum Internet

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How Scientists Are Accelerating Next-Gen Microelectronics

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Scientists Theorize a Hidden Phase Transition Between Liquid and a Solid

Collage of two pictures showing 2D material behavior side by side. (Left) Above an onset temperature, a 2D material exhibits normal liquid behavior with all particles similarly mobile (yellow). (Right) Below that temperature, it becomes supercooled, with the onset of rigidity leading to just some mobile particles (yellow) amongst solid-like ‘frozen’ regions (blue).

Natural or Not? Scientists Aid in Quest to Identify Genetically Engineered Organisms

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Carpets Retain a Stubborn Grip on Pollutants from Tobacco Smoke

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Berkeley Lab Researchers Receive DOE Early Career Research Awards

Mary Ann Piette Named Berkeley Lab’s Associate Director for Energy Technologies

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Making Renewable, Infinitely Recyclable Plastics Using Bacteria

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The Home of the Future

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Breaking Barriers in Drug Delivery with Better Lipid Nanoparticles

An artistic rendering of lipid nanoparticles showing multiple layers that take on different molecular arrangements, giving the particle varying properties.