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Scientist at Berkeley Lab Played a Hand in ‘Inescapable’ COVID-19 Antibody Discovery

Digital illustration of Y-shaped antibodies surrounding a purple SARS-CoV-2 virus

Main Attraction: Scientists Create World’s Thinnest Magnet

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Deconstructing the Infectious Machinery of the SARS-CoV-2 Virus

This color-enhanced image, taken by scanning electron microscopy, shows huge quantities of SARS-CoV-2 particles (purple) that have burst out of kidney cells (green), which the virus hijacked for replication. The bulging, spherical cells in the upper-right and bottom-left corners are distorted and about to burst from the viral particles inside, and are beginning to self-destruct. (Credit: NIAID Integrated Research Facility)

Scientists Discover How Oxygen Loss Saps a Lithium-Ion Battery’s Voltage

Detailed X-ray measurements at the Advanced Light Source helped a research team co-led by Berkeley Lab, SLAC, and Stanford University reveal how oxygen seeps out of the billions of nanoparticles that make up lithium-ion battery electrodes. (Credit: Berkeley Lab)

Scientists Uncover a Different Facet of Fuel Cell Chemistry

Three-dimensional drawing of electrode molecular surface, with gas molecules above and a yellow arrow representing incoming X-rays.

Key to Cleaner Combustion? Look to the Stars

New Tools Link Catalytic Activity to Nanoscale Transformations

Grayscale image of a six-sided plate with bubbles rising from its edges.

How X-Rays Could Make Reliable, Rapid COVID-19 Tests a Reality

Close-up hands holding rapid covid -19 test with a positive result

Meteorites Reveal Magnetic Record of Protoplanet Churn

The meteorite studied in this work, named Miles, weighed 265 kg when it was discovered on a farm in Queensland, Australia, in 1992. This photo shows a 20-centimeter slice of the Miles meteorite loaned by the Harvard Museum of Natural History collection. (Credit: Clara Maurel/MIT)

To Design Truly Compostable Plastic, Scientists Take Cues From Nature

Advanced Light Source Upgrade Project Achieves Major Milestone

This cutaway rendering of the Advanced Light Source dome shows the layout of three electron-accelerating rings with beamlines. A new approval step in the ALS Upgrade project will allow the installation of the middle ring, known as the accumulator ring. (Credit: Berkeley Lab)

X-Ray Study Recasts Role of Battery Material from Cathode to Catalyst

Wanli Yang, a senior scientist in Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source, working on a resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS) system. Yang adapted the RIXS technique to study lithium-rich battery materials. (Credit: Wanli Yang/Berkeley Lab)