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What’s On Your Skin? Archaea, That’s What

2-D Material’s Traits Could Send Electronics R&D Spinning in New Directions

Image - A scanning tunneling microscopy image of a 2-D material created and studied at Berkeley Lab's Advanced Light Source (orange, background). In the upper right corner, the blue dots represent the layout of tungsten atoms and the red dots represent tellurium atoms. The atomic structure is also shown as a ball-and-stick diagram (yellow and blue, center). (Credit: Berkeley Lab)

Study Sheds Light on How Bacterial Organelles Assemble

Researchers Find a Surprise Just Beneath the Surface in Carbon Dioxide Experiment

Image - Scientists are seeking ways to reduce environmentally harmful levels of carbon dioxide from vehicle emissions and other sources by improving chemical processes that convert carbon dioxide gas into ethanol (molecular structure shown here) for use in liquid fuels, for example. X-ray experiments at Berkeley Lab have helped to show what's at work in the early stages of chemical reactions that convert carbon dioxide and water into ethanol. (Credit: Wikimedia Commons)

How X-rays Helped to Solve Mystery of Floating Rocks

Image - This 3-D rendering, produced using X-ray microtomography at Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source, shows a cube-shaped sample of pumice (blue-gray) and pockets of trapped gases (other colors). (Credit: Berkeley Lab, UC Berkeley)

Designing Cyclic Oligomers: Greater Than the Sum of Their Parts

How X-rays Pushed Topological Matter Research Over the Top

Image - Jonathan Denlinger, right, a staff scientist in the Scientific Support Group at the ALS, and Sooyoung Jang, a postdoctoral fellow, work at the MERLIN beamline at Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source in this 360-degree video. MERLIN (Beamline 4.0.3) specializes in X-ray techniques that explore the properties of complex materials, including topological materials. (Credit: Berkeley Lab Video Production)

Researchers Gain Insight into Protein Critical to Zika Virus Reproduction

How Berkelium Stands Out in a Heavy Metal Crowd

Graphic of periodic table with a magnifying glass enlarging Berkelium

New Evidence for a Water-Rich History on Mars

Image - This image of Mars was created from about 1,000 Viking Orbiter images. (Credit: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, U.S. Geological Survey)

Getting to Know Meteors Better

Illustration - Asteroids pass close to Earth in this illustration. NASA is partnering with Berkeley Lab to study meteorite materials to better understand how meteors fracture as they enter Earth’s atmosphere and assess the risks they pose. (Credit: ESA/P.Carril)

A New Paradigm in Parachute Design

Photo - This array of parachutes, designed for NASA’s Orion spacecraft, is seen here during a test above Eloy, Ariz., in 2015. Several parachute designs for Orion have also been tested in NASA wind tunnels. (Credit: NASA)