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Climate Scientists Partner with San Francisco to be Ready for Future Storms

Dark Energy Instrument’s Lenses See the Night Sky for the First Time

Berkeley Lab Team Uses Deep Learning to Help Veterans Administration Address Suicide Risks

A photo of a male doctor speaking with a veteran in a wheelchair.

Breakthrough Study of Cell Signaling Holds Promise for Immune Research and Beyond

The atomic structure of the SOS protein, a cell messaging molecule that uses a unique timing mechanism to regulate activation of a critical immune system pathway.

The Best Topological Conductor Yet: Spiraling Crystal Is the Key to Exotic Discovery

Image - This illustration shows a repeated 2D patterning of a property related to electrical conductivity, known as the surface Fermi arc, in rhodium-silicon crystal samples. (Credit: Princeton University/Berkeley Lab)

Sea Quark Surprise Reveals Deeper Complexity in Proton Spin Puzzle

Image - The proton spin puzzle: Scientists want to know how different constituents of the proton contribute to its spin, a fundamental property that plays a role in how these building blocks give rise to nearly all visible matter in the universe. Pieces of the puzzle include the orbital angular momentum of quarks and gluons (top left), gluon spin (top right) and quark and antiquark spin (bottom). The latest data from RHIC reveal that the antiquarks' contribution is more complex than previously thought. (Credit: Brookhaven National Laboratory)

Using Tiny Organisms to Unlock Big Environmental Mysteries

A glass vial holds a water sample taken from a river

When Semiconductors Stick Together, Materials Go Quantum

Laser ‘Drill’ Sets a New World Record in Laser-Driven Electron Acceleration

Image - A snapshot of a plasma channel’s electron density profile (blue) formed inside a sapphire tube (gray) with the combination of an electrical discharge and an 8-nanosecond laser pulse (red, orange, yellow). This plasma channel was used to guide femtoseconds-long “driver” laser pulses from the BELLA petawatt laser system, which generated plasma waves and accelerated electrons to 8 billion electron volts in just 20 centimeters. (Credit: Gennadiy Bagdasarov/Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics; Anthony Gonsalves and Jean-Luc Vay/Berkeley Lab)

How to Escape a Black Hole: Simulations Provide New Clues to What’s Driving Powerful Plasma Jets

Image - This visualization of a general-relativistic collisionless plasma simulation shows the density of positrons near the event horizon of a rotating black hole. Plasma instabilities produce island-like structures in the region of intense electric current. (Credit: Kyle Parfrey et al./Berkeley Lab)

Revealing Hidden Spin: Unlocking New Paths Toward High-Temperature Superconductors

Massive New Dark Matter Detector Gets Its ‘Eyes’

Photo - Researchers at Brown University assemble an array of photomultiplier tubes for the LUX-ZEPLIN dark matter search experiment. The first of two sets of the photomultiplier arrays arrived Friday at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in South Dakota. (Credit: Nick Dentamaro/Brown University)