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Scientists Get Real-Time Look Inside Spacecraft Heat Shields During Extreme Heat Conditions

Through a decade-long partnership between the ALS and NASA, researchers are studying how heat shield materials called superlight ablators degrade, informing NASA spacecraft design. Research at the ALS ...
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Fuel Cell X-Ray Study Details Effects of Temperature and Moisture on Performance

Like a well-tended greenhouse garden, a specialized type of hydrogen fuel cell – which shows promise as a clean, renewable next-generation power source for vehicles and other uses – requires precise ...
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Early Research Demonstrated Novel Approach to Next-Generation Transistor Design

Berkeley Lab scientists showed a novel way to build advanced transistors decades before similar structures reached smartphones. Their bottom-up approach crafted transistors at 2-nanometer scale ...
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The Same Genetic Blueprint Develops the Faces of Birds and Mammals, So Why Do They Look So Different?
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Data Centers Continue to Proliferate While Their Energy Use Plateaus

As the number of data centers continues to increase in the United States, the good news is that they are becoming much more energy efficient. A new report from the Department of Energy’s Lawrence ...
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Not Much Force: Berkeley Researchers Detect Smallest Force Ever Measured

What is believed to be the smallest force ever measured has been detected by researchers with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California (UC) Berkeley.
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No Evidence of Residential Property Value Impacts Near U.S. Wind Turbines, a New Berkeley Lab Study Finds

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) analyzed more than 50,000 home sales near 67 wind facilities in 27 counties across nine U.S. states, yet was unable to uncover any impacts to ...
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Meet the Autonomous Lab of the Future

To accelerate development of useful new materials, researchers are building a new kind of automated lab that uses robots guided by artificial intelligence. “Our vision is using AI to discover the ...
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Harnessing Artificial Intelligence for High-Impact Science

At the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), we’re engineering and deploying sophisticated artificial intelligence tools that make scientific research faster and ...
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Moiré than Meets the Eye

Researchers have discovered that phasons, low-temperature quasiparticles found in crystal lattices, enable interlayer excitons to move at very low temperatures, when motion should stop. In addition to ...
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Listening to the Radio on the Far Side of the Moon

Researchers can use the radio-quiet far side of the moon to listen for a never-before-heard signal from the “Dark Ages” of the universe. The LuSEE-Night experiment will act as a pathfinder for future ...
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A New Way to Make Element 116 Opens the Door to Heavier Atoms

Scientists at Berkeley Lab have successfully made known element 116 (livermorium) using a titanium beam for the first time, a breakthrough that enables the lab to try to make new element 120. If ...