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Introducing a New Isotope: Mendelevium-244

Photo - Jennifer Pore, a Berkeley Lab project scientist who led the study detailing the discovery of mendelevium-244, operates the Berkeley Gas-filled Separator vacuum controller at Berkeley Lab’s 88-Inch Cyclotron in this 2018 photo. (Credit: Marilyn Sargent/Berkeley Lab)

This Enigmatic Protein Sculpts DNA to Repair Harmful Damage

Off the Scales: Fish Armor Both Tough and Flexible

stock photo of common carp

Could the Answer to Groundwater Resources Come From High in the Sky?

illustration of project

Showtime for Photosynthesis

Smart Farms of the Future: Making Bioenergy Crops More Environmentally Friendly

Now Complete, Telescope Instrument is Poised to Begin Its Search for Answers About Dark Energy

Image - In this rendering, a cutaway view of the Mayall Telescope shows the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument. (Credit: Dongjae “Krystofer” Kim/Kryated.com, DESI collaboration)

Daya Bay Reactor Experiment Continues to Generate Data

Photo - Antineutrino detectors are submersed in liquid at the Daya Bay experiment, as seen during the final phase of construction in August 2012. (Credit: Roy Kaltschmidt/Berkeley Lab)

Site of LUX-ZEPLIN Dark Matter Search Project Carefully Ramps Up Science Work

Photo - The LUX-ZEPLIN cryostat, which houses the experiment’s main detector, is pictured here in a surface lab before its delivery underground. (Credit: Matthew Kapust/SURF)

DESI Team Prepares for Telescope Instrument’s Restart after Unexpected Shutdown

Photo - DESI is installed within the dome of the Mayall Telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory near Tucson, Arizona. (Credit: Marilyn Sargent/Berkeley Lab)

Using Machine Learning to Estimate COVID-19’s Seasonal Cycle

map of the worldwide incidence rate of COVID-19

X-ray Experiments Zero in on COVID-19 Antibodies

This transmission electron microscope image shows SARS-CoV-2—also known as 2019-nCoV, the virus that causes COVID-19—isolated from a patient in the U.S.