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Berkeley Lab to Conduct R&D to Improve the Nation’s COVID-19 Testing Capabilities

Seeing ‘Under the Hood’ in Batteries

Image - Illustration of a charging battery. (Credit: MarySan/Shutterstock.com)

Staff at Berkeley Lab’s X-Ray Facility Mobilize to Support COVID-19-Related Research

Photo - The domed Advanced Light Source building at Berkeley Lab, and the nearby UC Berkeley campus, are visible in this drone photo taken in March 2020. (Credit: Thor Swift, Marilyn Sargent/Berkeley Lab)

Scientists Capture 3D Images of Nanoparticles, Atom by Atom, With Unprecedented Precision

3D images of platinum particles

Fine-Tuning Magnetic Spin for Faster, Smaller Memory Devices

A team of researchers at Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley have developed an antiferromagnetic switch for computer memory and processing applications. Credit: James Analytis/Berkeley Lab]

Making Biofuels Cheaper by Putting Plants to Work

photo of sorghum plants

COVID-19 Related Research at Berkeley Lab

NERSC, ESnet Continue to Deliver Supercomputing, Networking Support for Nation’s Scientists during Pandemic

Uncertain Climate Future Could Disrupt Energy Systems

photo of hot urban landscape

Mina Bissell Awarded International Prize for Her Contributions to Cancer Research

Mina J. Bissell

Using Fiber Optics to Advance Safe and Renewable Energy

photo of floating wind turbines in the ocean

New Technique Looks for Dark Matter Traces in Dark Places

Illustration - In this composite image, theorized particles of decaying dark matter should produce a spherical halo of X-ray emission – represented here as colorized matter concentrated around the center of the Milky Way (in black and white) – that could be detectable when looking in otherwise blank regions of the galaxy. (Credit: Zosia Rostomian and Nicholas Rodd/Berkeley Lab; and Christopher Dessert and Benjamin Safdi/University of Michigan; Fermi Large Area Telescope)