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Rinse and Repeat: An Easy New Way to Recycle Batteries is Here

Two hands with blue gloves are golding tubes in a lab setting. One tube is filled with a piece of copper that has been cleaned of other components and the other with the alkaline solution used to dissolve the quick-release battery binder

Say Hello to the Toughest Material on Earth

A black and white microscopy image of the material; it looks like zoomed in scratches on a hard surface on the left, then the same image in vivid multicolor on the right.

Q&A: Recycling Electronic Waste Could be a Golden Opportunity

A heap of electronic and computer hardware waste for disposal or recycling - junked computer parts.

Climate Expert William Collins Selected as New Associate Laboratory Director

A person wearing a dark suit points a remote at a projector screen in the front of the room. Their reflection can be seen on the whiteboard on the left.

To Battle Climate Change, Scientists Tap Into Carbon-Hungry Microorganisms for Clues

Diagram of carbon dioxide being converted into solar fuels through artificial photosynthesis.

Limiting Global Warming Now Can Preserve Valuable Freshwater Resource

Spring snowmelt in the Ansel Adams Wilderness of the California Sierra Nevada against a setting sky.

A Day in the Half-Life

Collage of images including the earth, hydrogen molecules, wind turbines, a plane, and a truck

Taking Freight Trucks Electric Would Have Big Economic and Environmental Benefits for India

Trucks on an asphalt road in a rural landscape at sunset.

FRIB Experiment Pushes Elements to the Limit

Rare isotopes implanted into the center of a sensitive detector known as the FRIB Decay Station initiator.

Inflation Reduction Act Funds Accelerate Berkeley Lab’s Ability to Bring Science Solutions to the World

Aerial photo of Berkeley Lab's main campus in the hills.

Berkeley Lab Launches New Website

Screen capture of six different sections of the new LBNL website.

Berkeley Lab Researchers Record Successful Startup of LUX-ZEPLIN Dark Matter Detector at Sanford Underground Research Facility

Members of science team lined-up in a water tank after the outer detector installation.