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New Discovery Could Improve Organic Solar Cell Performance

Image - In this image, an optically excited spin-singlet state (red), which features electron-hole pairs, splits into a pair of spin-triplet states (blue). The individual triplets have equal and opposite center-of-mass momenta – they behave like waves moving in opposite directions along a crystal. The gray and white spheres represent carbon and hydrogen atoms, respectively. (Credit: Florian Brown-Altvater/Berkeley Lab)

It All Starts With a ‘Spark’: Berkeley Lab Delivers Injector That Will Drive X-Ray Laser Upgrade

Photo - Berkeley Lab Mechanical Engineers Joe Wallig, left, and Brian Reynolds work on the final assembly of the LCLS-II injector gun in a specially designed clean room at Berkeley Lab in August. (Credit: Marilyn Chung/Berkeley Lab)

Scientists Discover Material Ideal for Smart Photovoltaic Windows

Coupling Experiments to Theory to Build a Better Battery

X-Rays Reveal ‘Handedness’ in Swirling Electric Vortices

Image - Just as people can be left-handed or right-handed, scientists have observed chirality or "handedness" in swirling electric vortices in a layered material. (Credit: Pixabay)

Ingredients for Life Revealed in Meteorites That Fell to Earth

Image - Ceres, a dwarf planet in the asteroid belt pictured here in this NASA-produced false-color image, may be the source of organic matter found on two meteorites that crashed to Earth in 1998. (Credit: NASA)

Real World Native Biocrusts: Microbial Metabolism

Star Mergers: A New Test of Gravity, Dark Energy Theories

Image - Artist’s illustration of two merging neutron stars. The rippling space-time grid represents gravitational waves that travel out from the collision, while the narrow beams show the bursts of gamma rays that are shot out just seconds after the gravitational waves. Swirling clouds of material ejected from the merging stars are also depicted. The clouds glow with visible and other wavelengths of light. (Credit: NSF/LIGO/Sonoma State University/A. Simonnet)

Berkeley Lab Researchers ID Plant ‘Sunscreen’ Protein

Creating a World of Make-Believe to Better Understand the Real Universe

Image - This plot shows a thin slice through a mock galaxies catalog. The blue and green points are “bright” and “faint” galaxies simulated for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument’s Bright Galaxy Survey, and the red points show galaxies that are brighter than the magnitude limit of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. (Credit: Alex Smith/Durham University)

X-Rays Provide Key Insights on Path to Lithium-Rich Battery Electrode

Image - Electric car makers are intensely interested in lithium-rich battery cathodes that could significantly increase driving range. A new study opens a path to making them live up to their promise. (Stanford University/3Dgraphic)

Studying Gas Mask Filters So People Can Breathe Easier