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New DESI Planetarium Show to Premiere in Spring 2023

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) atop Kitt Peak.

Berkeley Lab Director Mike Witherell to Serve on Governing Council of the National Academy of Sciences

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On the Road to Better Solid-State Batteries

Scanning transmission electron microscope images reveal the elemental distribution in a “disordered” solid electrolyte.

How a Record-Breaking Copper Catalyst Converts CO2 Into Liquid Fuels

Artist’s rendering of a copper nanoparticle life cycle during CO2 electrolysis: Copper nanoparticles (left) combine into larger metallic copper “nanograins” (right) within seconds of the electrochemical reaction, reducing CO2 into new multicarbon products.

New Compound That Withstands Extreme Heat and Electricity Could Lead to Next-Generation Energy Storage Devices

A new type of polysulfate compound can be used to make polymer film capacitors that store and discharge high density of electrical energy while tolerating heat and electric fields beyond the limits of existing polymer film capacitors.

Doubling Protected Lands for Biodiversity Could Require Tradeoffs With Other Land Uses, Study Finds

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The Most Advanced Bay Area Earthquake Simulations Will be Publicly Available

A small brown wooden model of a house sits on cracked concrete

Microscopy Images Could Lead to New Ways to Control Excitons for Quantum Computing

This electron microscopy-derived composite image shows excitons in green. The moiré unit cell outlined in the lower right of the exciton map is about 8 nanometers in size.

How Berkeley Lab Helped Develop One of the World's Most Popular Open-Source Security Monitoring Platforms

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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.