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New Report Shows Technology Advancement and Value of Wind Energy

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ABPDU Celebrates a Decade of Bio-Innovation

Photograph depicting a panoramic view of laboratory space inside the ABPDU facility, located in Emeryville, CA.

LED Material Shines Under Strain

According to a recent Science study led by Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley, applying mechanical strain on this atomically thin, transparent monolayer semiconductor results in a material with loss-free light emission efficiency. (Credit: Ali Javey/Berkeley Lab)

Basics 2 Breakthroughs

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Mountains of Data: An Unprecedented Climate Observatory to Understand the Future of Water

Shipping containers set in beautiful mountain landscape

Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm visits Berkeley Lab

U.S. Secretary of Energy, Jennifer Granholm, speaks with scientists in from the Berkeley Lab's Joint Genome Institute.

This Exotic Particle Had an Out-of-Body Experience; These Scientists Took a Picture of It

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Scientist at Berkeley Lab Played a Hand in ‘Inescapable’ COVID-19 Antibody Discovery

Digital illustration of Y-shaped antibodies surrounding a purple SARS-CoV-2 virus

Silicon Nanowire Offers Efficient High-Temperature Thermoelectric System

New Thermal Wave Diagnostic Technique Advances Battery Performance Testing

Sean Lubner (right), Mechanical Research, Scientist/Engineer, Energy Storage & Distributed Resources Division (ESDR), and Yuqiang Zhen, Staff, ESDR, utilizing 3ω for thermal characterization of batteries at the Thermal Science Group laboratory.

Latest IPCC Report Points to Urgent Need to Cut Emissions

A chart that shows projected changes in annual maximum temperature (top row) and annual minimum temperature (bottom) at three levels of global warming in the world, compared to the 1851-1900 baseline, based on computer simulations.

Basics 2 Breakthroughs

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