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The Science Enabling a Steady Supply of Critical Minerals

Modern life is built on critical minerals and materials. These elements are key ingredients in the technologies that enable a high quality of life, such as the chips and batteries powering our ...
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Targeted Cancer Therapy Gets a Sharper Focus

Targeted alpha therapy (TAT) is an emerging cancer treatment that uses alpha-emitting radioisotopes to target and destroy cancer cells without damaging nearby healthy cells. The radioisotope ...
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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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A New Close-Up View of Electrons Inside Semiconductors

Researchers developed a powerful new methodology that combines direct imaging of electrons and defects in 2D semiconductors with theory-driven simulations that predict electron behavior and explain ...
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LZ Sees Surprising Result in Search for Dark Matter

Dark matter is the mysterious substance that accounts for the vast majority of matter in our universe. LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) is a world-leading dark matter detector and specializes in searching for WIMPs, ...
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Planning a New Era of Discovery with the Upgraded Advanced Light Source

Scientists around the world use the focused beams of light generated by the Advanced Light Source (ALS) synchrotron to study molecules and materials with atomic precision — yielding fundamental ...
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Building the Computational Mind for the “Swiss Army Knife” of Microscopes

Berkeley Lab researchers developed computational tools to process the massive datasets generated by MOSAIC, a reconfigurable microscope that combines more than ten advanced imaging techniques into one ...
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Huntington’s Disease Discovery Opens Door to a New Class of Treatments

New treatments for Huntington’s disease could be on the horizon soon, following research led by scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). Huntington’s disease (HD) is a fatal ...
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Scientists Release Biggest 2D Map of the Universe

The DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys combined more than 263,000 telescope exposures to make the largest 2D map of the universe in visible and near-infrared light. Astronomers can pair the Legacy Surveys ...
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Ice Ice Maybe: New Ways to Search for Frozen Water on the Moon

The new work presents an approach to find ice deposits hidden in the moon’s subsurface. The team studied the physics underlying how moon rocks respond to seismic waves. Their experiments showed a ...
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Meet EcoBOT: The Autonomous Lab Standardizing Plant-Microbe Research

To harness biological systems (plants and microbes) for next-generation energy production and advanced materials, researchers are looking to beneficial plant-microbe interactions. Because these are ...
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New Electron Microscopy Tech Breaks into the Elusive Realm of Small Molecules

Adapted from an article by Robert Sanders at UC Berkeley. Nearly 100 years ago, a discovery revolutionized light microscopy. The introduction of the phase-contrast microscope, which garnered a Nobel ...