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Super Intelligence for Particle Accelerators Gets Another Boost

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced significant funding to scale up promising projects that use Super Intelligence (SI), commonly referred to as artificial intelligence, to accelerate ...
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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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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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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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How the Genesis Mission’s American Science Cloud Advances Innovation

As the Director of the Scientific Networking Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and Executive Director of the Energy Sciences Network (ESnet), Inder Monga is an expert in ...
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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 ...
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UC Names Katherine Yelick to Head Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

The University of California Board of Regents today (May 5) approved Katherine Yelick as the next director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). Her appointment as director begins ...
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Science on the Double: How an AI-Powered 'Digital Twin' Accelerates Chemistry and Materials Discoveries

Berkeley Lab scientists have developed Digital Twin for Chemical Science (DTCS), an AI-powered platform that could compress discovery timelines from months to minutes, enabling researchers to observe ...