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Mapping Battery Materials With Atomic Precision

Image - Atomic resolution scanning transmission electron microscopy images and electron diffraction patterns, arranged on a rendering of a battery, show how the structure of lithium-rich and manganese-rich transition metal oxides used inside battery cathodes changes with composition. The images also show how the surface of the cathode has a different structure than the interior. (Credit: Berkeley Lab)

Teaching Computers to Guide Science: New Machine Learning Method Sees the Forests and the Trees

Chemical Sleuthing Unravels Possible Path to the Formation of Life’s Building Blocks in Space

Image - The atomic structure of pyrene molecules (upper left and upper right) are represented in an artist's rendering of an asteroid belt. A new study shows chemical steps for how pyrene, a type of hydrocarbon found in some meteorite samples, could form in space. (Credit: NASA-JPL-Caltech, Wikimedia Commons)

Assessing the Impact of Hurricanes on Puerto Rico’s Forests

Can Strongly Lensed Type Ia Supernovae Resolve One of Cosmology’s Biggest Controversies?

Image - This composite of two astrophysics simulations shows a Type Ia supernova (purple disc) expanding over different microlensing magnification patterns (colored fields). Because individual stars in the lensing galaxy can significantly change the brightness of a lensed event regions of the supernova can experience varying amounts of brightening and dimming, which scientists believed would be a problem for cosmologists measuring time delays. Using detailed computer simulations at NERSC, astrophysicists showed that this would have a small effect on time-delay cosmology. (Credit: Danny Goldstein/UC Berkeley)

Scientists Confirm Century-Old Speculation on the Chemistry of a High-Performance Battery

Image - An array of solar panels and windmills. (Credit: PxHere)

Strategies for Replacing Natural Gas to Help Decarbonize the University of California

Imaging Flexible DNA ‘Building Blocks’ in 3-D

Image - A collection of 120 3-D images of Bennett linkages. The images were created using individual-particle electron tomography (IPET), a technique developed at Berkeley Lab. (Credit: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

Berkeley Lab ‘Minimalist Machine Learning’ Algorithms Analyze Images From Very Little Data

Slice of mouse llymphoblastoid cells. Raw data (a): corresponding manual segmentation (b) and output of an MS-D network with 100 layers (Data from A.Ekman, C. Larabell, National Center for X-ray Tomography)

Berkeley Lab Report Calls for Industry Attention to Ensuring Grid Reliability

Narrowing In on the W Boson Mass

Image - ATLAS Experiment event display: a W boson decays into one muon and one neutrino (Credit: ATLAS Collaboration)

From Belgrade to Berkeley: A Postdoctoral Researcher’s Path in Particle Physics

Photo - Aleksandra Dimitrievska works on prototype chips for a planned upgrade at CERN's Large Hadron Collider. (Credit: Marilyn Chung/Berkeley Lab)