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Berkeley Lab Technologies Honored With 7 R&D 100 Awards

Machine Learning Takes on Synthetic Biology: Algorithms Can Bioengineer Cells for You

Tijana Radivojevic (left) and Hector Garcia Martin work on mechanical and statistical modeling, data visualizations and metabolic maps at the Agile BioFoundry.

Lead Lab Selected for Next-Generation Cosmic Microwave Background Experiment

Photo - This image, from “Eternal Sky,” a video series about the Simons Observatory, shows the Atacama Desert site where some of the telescopes for the CMB-S4 experiment will be built. (Credit: Copyright Debra Kellner/Simons Foundation)

Some of America’s Favorite Produce Crops May Need to Get a Move On by 2045

3 Awards Will Support Accelerator R&D for Medical Treatment, Miniaturization, and Machine Learning

Photo - Proton-beam therapy at the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland. A Berkeley Lab researcher is working with PSI and Varian Medical Systems to develop a new system with improve beam performance. (Credit: Center for Proton Therapy/PSI)

Toward an Ultrahigh Energy Density Capacitor

To make the new material, the thin film is first deposited via a pulsed-laser deposition process in this chamber. The bright “plume” you see is the laser hitting the target and depositing the material.

Low-Cost Home Air Quality Monitors Prove Useful for Wildfire Smoke

panoramic view of SF Bay on clear vs polluted days

New NSF Physics Frontier Center Will Focus on Neutron Star Modeling in ‘Gravitational Wave Era’

Image - This rendering shows the density of matter in the aftermath of two merged neutron stars, resulting in the formation of a black hole. (Credit: David Radice/Pennsylvania State University)

Keeping Cool Efficiently During Heat Waves

International Physicists Join Forces in Hunt for Sterile Neutrinos

Geothermal Brines Could Propel California’s Green Economy

Another Win for the Standard Model: New Study Defies Decades-Old ‘Discrepancy’ With High-Precision Measurement

Photo - The ATLAS detector at CERN's Large Hadron Collider. (Credit: CERN)