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Two Berkeley Lab Scientists Honored with the Lawrence Award

Photo - Collage of three winners.

This Anti-COVID Mask Design Breaks the Mold

anti-COVID mask

9 Berkeley Lab Scientists Named 2020 AAAS Fellows

Photos - Berkeley Lab’s nine 2020 AAAS Fellows: (top row, from left to right) Wibe A. “Bert” de Jong, Spencer R. Klein, Sanjay Kumar, Mary E. Maxon, (bottom row, left to right) Esmond G. Ng, John Douglas Owens, Len Pennacchio, Robert Oliver Ritchie, and Peidong Yang.

Scientists Design New Framework for Clean Water

Water molecules

Charges Cascading Along a Molecular Chain

Weighing In on ‘Light’ Dark Matter: Q&A With Sinéad Griffin

X-Rays Reveal Architectural Clues to the Crush-Resistance of Diabolical Ironclad Beetles

Images - These images show the diabolical ironclad beetle (top left) and how its abdomen (top middle and right) contains an internal architecture (bottom) featuring puzzle piece-like joints (bottom left) that make it incredibly crush-resistant. (Credit: UC Irvine)

What’s Nanotechnology? Kristin Persson Explains at 4 Different Levels

An Electrical Trigger Fires Single, Identical Photons

An Innovative Pattern: Scientists Rewrite Rules for 2D Electronics

2D Electronics Get an Atomic Tuneup

Electron microscopy experiments revealed meandering stripes formed by metal atoms of rhenium and niobium in the lattice structure of a 2D transition metal dichalcogenide alloy. (Image courtesy of Amin Azizi)

Toward an Ultrahigh Energy Density Capacitor

To make the new material, the thin film is first deposited via a pulsed-laser deposition process in this chamber. The bright “plume” you see is the laser hitting the target and depositing the material.