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Paul Adams Named Berkeley Lab’s Associate Director for Biosciences

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Rinse and Repeat: An Easy New Way to Recycle Batteries is Here

Two hands with blue gloves are golding tubes in a lab setting. One tube is filled with a piece of copper that has been cleaned of other components and the other with the alkaline solution used to dissolve the quick-release battery binder

Six Berkeley Lab Scientists Named AAAS Fellows

Collage of six people laid out three in a row. From top row, left to right: Aindrila Mukhopadhyay, Rangachary Mukundan, Howard Padmore. From bottom row, left to right: Kristin Persson, Whendee Silver, and Dan Stamper-Kurn.

Lost Video of Georges Lemaître, Father of the Big Bang Theory, Recovered

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Climate Change Likely to Uproot More Amazon Trees

Uprooted or broken trees in the Amazon due to intense storms that can cause "windthrow."

Machine Learning Tackles Long COVID

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Electronic Bridge Allows Rapid Energy Sharing Between Semiconductors

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Berkeley Lab Scientists Develop a Cool New Method of Refrigeration

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The Donnan Potential, Revealed at Last

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Berkeley Lab’s Big Science Stories of 2022

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Say Hello to the Toughest Material on Earth

A black and white microscopy image of the material; it looks like zoomed in scratches on a hard surface on the left, then the same image in vivid multicolor on the right.

How to Edit the Genes of Nature’s Master Manipulators

A digital illustration of an hourglass filled with pieces of virus capsules and DNA strands. The pieces at the top of the hourglass are purple, and they are flowing downward into viral pieces that are orange.