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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)

Scientists Help Thin-Film Ferroelectrics Go Extreme

Berkeley Lab Scientists Discover New Atomically Layered, Thin Magnet

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)

Scientists Pull Water Out of Thin Air

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)

The Heat is On

Photo - The Mars Science Laboratory, which landed the Curiosity rover on MARS, featured the largest heat shield (the underside is shown here)—at 14 feet 9 inches in diameter—to enter a planet’s atmosphere. NASA is now engaging in R&D for even larger heat shields made of flexible, foldable material that can open up like an umbrella to protect spacecraft during atmospheric entry. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Lockheed Martin)

Three Berkeley Lab Researchers Named to National Academy of Engineering

Scientists Determine Precise 3-D Location and Identity of All 23,000 Atoms in a Nanoparticle

High-Resolution Imaging Reveals New Understanding of Battery Cathode Particles