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Experiments at Berkeley Lab Help Trace Interstellar Dust Back to Solar System’s Formation

Image - An elemental map of tiny glassy grains (blue with green specks) inside a cometary-type interplanetary dust particle. Carbonaceous material (red) holds these objects together. This image was collected from a thin section of the particle using a scanning transmission electron microscope. (Credit: Hope Ishii/University of Hawaii at Manoa, reproduced with permission from PNAS)

Non-Crystal Clarity: Scientists Find Ordered Magnetic Patterns in Disordered Magnetic Material

Image - In these rows of sequenced images, produced using X-ray-based techniques, the first column shows the demagnetized state of a multilayer material containing gadolinium and cobalt; the second column shows the residual magnetism in the same samples after an external, positive magnetic field was applied and then removed; and the last column shows the samples when a negative magnetic field is applied. The white arrows in the third row of images indicate gadolinium-rich regions in the material. (Credit: Berkeley Lab)

Steve Kevan Named Next Director of Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source

Photo - Steve Kevan

‘Super Window’ Could Save $10 Billion Annually in Energy Costs

Supercomputers Provide New Window Into the Life and Death of a Neutron

Image - In this illustration, the grid in the background represents the computational lattice that theoretical physicists used to calculate a particle property known as nucleon axial coupling. This property determines how a W boson (white wavy line) interacts with one of the quarks in a neutron (large transparent sphere in foreground), emitting an electron (large arrow) and antineutrino (dotted arrow) in a process called beta decay. This process transforms the neutron into a proton (distant transparent sphere). (Credit: Evan Berkowitz/Jülich Research Center, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

New Machine Learning Approach Could Accelerate Bioengineering

Graphene Layered With Magnetic Materials Could Drive Ultrathin Spintronics

Photo - Andreas Schmid, left, and Gong Chen are pictured here with the spin-polarized low-energy electron microscopy (SPLEEM) instrument at Berkeley Lab that was integral to magnetic measurements of ultrathin samples that included graphene and magnetic materials. (Credit: Roy Kaltschmidt/Berkeley Lab)

Diamond ‘Spin-Off’ Tech Could Lead to Low-Cost Medical Imaging and Drug Discovery Tools

Photo - Microscopic images of diamond particles with nitrogen-vacancy defects. These samples, which exhibit a truncated octahedral shape, were used in experiments that sought new ways to tune and control an electronic property known as spin polarization. The scale bar at lower right is 200 microns (millionths of an inch). To the human eye, the pinkish diamonds resemble fine red sand. (Credit: Berkeley Lab, UC Berkeley)

Living Large: Exploration of Diverse Bacteria Signals Big Advance for Gene Function Prediction

Planck Collaboration Wins 2018 Gruber Cosmology Prize

Image - A visualization of the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background, or CMB, as detected by ESA's Planck satellite over the entire sky. A small fraction of the CMB is polarized, meaning it vibrates in a preferred direction. In this image, the color scale represents temperature differences in the universe’s cosmic microwave background, while the texture indicates the direction of the polarized light. (Credit: ESA and the Planck Collaboration)

Tau-tally Microtubular!

Profiling Extreme Beams: Scientists Devise New Diagnostic for Cutting-Edge and Next-Gen Particle Accelerators

Image - This image from a simulation shows an electron beam (blue circles) passing through a mixture of hydrogen and xenon gases that it ionizes, transforming the mixture into a plasma of protons, xenon ions, and electrons. (Credit: Jean-Luc Vay and Rémi Lehe)