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Berkeley Lab Helps Explore Mysteries of Asteroid Bennu

Roughly diamond-shaped asteroid with a rocky, uneven surface, set against a completely black background.

A Film Capacitor That Can Take the Heat

Two researchers in blue coats and safety glasses look at an experimental setup.

From Days to Hours: A Faster Way to Make a Promising New Catalyst

Elemental mapping of Pd/COF confirming uniform Pd distribution.

Watching a Molecular Reaction in Real Time

Graphic illustration of molecules floating with cinema tape against a dark background.

Researchers Succeed in Taking 3D X-ray Images of a Skyrmion

A rendering in paraview of the product of the 3D reconstruction. (Credit: David Raftrey)

New Process Vaporizes Plastic Bags and Bottles, Yielding Gases to Make New, Recycled Plastics

Two people in safety glasses observe a scientific experiment through a glass window in a lab, with equipment and handwritten notes visible inside the fume hood.

Five Ways LiSA is Advancing Solar Fuels

Two researchers in lab coats and goggles work with outdoor scientific equipment near a modern building.

A New Approach to Accelerate the Discovery of Quantum Materials

This image shows the cobalt defect fabricated by the study team. The green and yellow circles are tungsten and sulfur atoms that make up a 2D tungsten disulfide sample. The dark blue circles on the surface are cobalt atoms. The lower-right area highlighted in blue-green is a hole previously occupied by a sulfur atom. The area highlighted in reddish-purple is a defect—a sulfur vacancy filled with a cobalt atom. The scanning tunneling microscope (gray) is using electric current (light blue) to measure the defect’s atomic-scale properties.

Caught in the Actinium

Jen Wacker processes a sample of actinium at Berkeley Lab.

Biological Science Helps Fuel the Future of Electric Air Travel

Two smiling people in blue lab coats and safety glasses. The person on the right has their arm raised in the center of the frame presenting a nickel-sized sample.

New Technology Provides Electrifying Insights into How Catalysts Work at the Atomic Level

A woman, left, and a man look at visual data on several monitors with components of an electron microscope nearby.

A Cleaner Way to Produce Ammonia

Polly Arnold, Division Director, Chemical Sciences Division, with Matt Hernandez, Graduate Student Researcher.