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How Managing Building Energy Demand Can Aid the Clean Energy Transition

Quantification of the U.S. building-grid resource infographic. Load reductions, Spatio-temporal variation, Impactful measures.

Main Attraction: Scientists Create World’s Thinnest Magnet

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Deconstructing the Infectious Machinery of the SARS-CoV-2 Virus

This color-enhanced image, taken by scanning electron microscopy, shows huge quantities of SARS-CoV-2 particles (purple) that have burst out of kidney cells (green), which the virus hijacked for replication. The bulging, spherical cells in the upper-right and bottom-left corners are distorted and about to burst from the viral particles inside, and are beginning to self-destruct. (Credit: NIAID Integrated Research Facility)

Berkeley Lab Pushes Its Energy-Saving Windows into the Market

Microbial Fingerprints for Cities

A map showing clusters of microbes found across the world

Scientists Discover How Oxygen Loss Saps a Lithium-Ion Battery’s Voltage

Detailed X-ray measurements at the Advanced Light Source helped a research team co-led by Berkeley Lab, SLAC, and Stanford University reveal how oxygen seeps out of the billions of nanoparticles that make up lithium-ion battery electrodes. (Credit: Berkeley Lab)

Scientists Uncover a Different Facet of Fuel Cell Chemistry

Three-dimensional drawing of electrode molecular surface, with gas molecules above and a yellow arrow representing incoming X-rays.

What if We Could Give Viruses a One-Two Punch?

Michael Connolly (left) and Natalia Molchanova (right) preparing antiviral peptoid samples at the Molecular Foundry. (Credit: Marilyn Sargent/Berkeley Lab)

Empowering a Neighborhood to Breathe Easy

two scientists collect air sensor data outside a home

A Day in the Half-Life

An illustration of two cats (one living and one skeletal) perched in a computer screen

This Crystal Impurity Is Sheer Perfection

Artist’s illustration of pyrite mineral crystals. (Credit: Cagla Acikgoz/Shutterstock)

One-of-a-Kind Course Aims to Build the Bioeconomy Workforce