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Experiments at Berkeley Lab Help Trace Interstellar Dust Back to Solar System’s Formation

Image - An elemental map of tiny glassy grains (blue with green specks) inside a cometary-type interplanetary dust particle. Carbonaceous material (red) holds these objects together. This image was collected from a thin section of the particle using a scanning transmission electron microscope. (Credit: Hope Ishii/University of Hawaii at Manoa, reproduced with permission from PNAS)

Non-Crystal Clarity: Scientists Find Ordered Magnetic Patterns in Disordered Magnetic Material

Image - In these rows of sequenced images, produced using X-ray-based techniques, the first column shows the demagnetized state of a multilayer material containing gadolinium and cobalt; the second column shows the residual magnetism in the same samples after an external, positive magnetic field was applied and then removed; and the last column shows the samples when a negative magnetic field is applied. The white arrows in the third row of images indicate gadolinium-rich regions in the material. (Credit: Berkeley Lab)

Steve Kevan Named Next Director of Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source

Photo - Steve Kevan

Dozens of Photographers Attend Berkeley Lab’s Physics Photowalk

Photo - Visiting photographers gather during the Berkeley Lab Photowalk on Wednesday, May 16. (Credit: Kelly J. Owen/Berkeley Lab)

COSMIC Impact: Next-Gen X-Ray Microscopy Platform Now Operational

Diamonds From the Deep: Study Suggests Water May Exist in Earth’s Lower Mantle

Image - The molecular structure of ice-VII (upper right) is shown with an artistic rendering of the Earth and a cutaway view of the inner Earth (right). (Credit: Wikimedia Commons)

Calling All Photographers: Participate in Berkeley Lab’s Physics Photowalk Competition on May 16

Image collage - Berkeley Lab Physics Photowalk on May 16, 2018.

Chemical Sleuthing Unravels Possible Path to the Formation of Life’s Building Blocks in Space

Image - The atomic structure of pyrene molecules (upper left and upper right) are represented in an artist's rendering of an asteroid belt. A new study shows chemical steps for how pyrene, a type of hydrocarbon found in some meteorite samples, could form in space. (Credit: NASA-JPL-Caltech, Wikimedia Commons)

Scientists Confirm Century-Old Speculation on the Chemistry of a High-Performance Battery

Image - An array of solar panels and windmills. (Credit: PxHere)

X-Ray Experiments Suggest High Tunability of 2-D Material

Image - This rendering shows the atomic structure of a 2-D material ("ball-and-stick" representation at bottom) and the signature (middle and top) of electronic properties that were observed using an X-ray technique at Berkeley Lab’s MAESTRO beamline. (Credit: Søren Ulstrup/Aarhus University, et al.)

Coupling Experiments to Theory to Build a Better Battery

X-Rays Reveal ‘Handedness’ in Swirling Electric Vortices

Image - Just as people can be left-handed or right-handed, scientists have observed chirality or "handedness" in swirling electric vortices in a layered material. (Credit: Pixabay)