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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.

Scientists Demonstrate the Potential of Electron Spin to Transmit Quantum Information

Magnon propagation in an antiferromagnet is revealed in these snapshots of spatially resolved transient reflectance, obtained using pairs of laser pulses.

Groundbreaking Microcapacitors Could Power Chips of the Future

Sayeef Salahuddin (left) and Nirmaan Shanker in the lab.

Two Berkeley Lab Researchers Elected to the National Academy of Sciences

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New Insights Lead to Better Next-Gen Solar Cells

Carolin Sutter-Fella (standing), Staff Scientist, and Tim Kodalle, Postdoctoral Researcher, discuss their research at the Advanced Light Source (ALS).

This Alloy is Kinky

A field of pink, purple, cyan, indigo, orange, and yellow shapes packed together, resembling vibrant abstract art.

How Scientists Are Accelerating Chemistry Discoveries With Automation

Illustration of a robot arm, vials, a laptop, and a beaker on a desk facing the window.