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Cracking a Cold Case and Enduring Mystery

Researchers use Berkeley Lab’s advanced technology to reveal the secrets of ancient concrete.

Discovery of New Material State Counterintuitive to Laws of Physics

When you squeeze something, it gets smaller. Unless you’re at Argonne National Laboratory.

Massive Particle Storage Ring to Begin 3,200-Mile Trek on Sunday

How do you move a 50-foot-wide, circular electromagnet from Long Island to the Chicago suburbs in one piece without flexing or twisting it? Very, very carefully.

Ames Laboratory Scientists Discover New Family of Quasicrystals

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Ames Laboratory have discovered a new family of rare-earth quasicrystals using an algorithm they developed to help pinpoint them. Their research resulted in finding the only known magnetic rare earth icosahedral binary quasicrystals, now providing a “matched set” of magnetic quasicrystals and their closely related periodic cousins.

Berkeley Lab Study Finds Moving Select Computer Services to the Cloud Promises Significant Energy Savings

Sky is the limit for potential savings from moving software applications to centralized systems.

“Popcorn” Particle Pathways Promise Better Lithium-Ion Batteries

Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have confirmed the particle-by-particle mechanism by which lithium ions move in and out of electrodes made of lithium iron phosphate (LiFePO4, or LFP), findings that could lead to better performance in lithium-ion batteries in electric vehicles, medical equipment and aircraft.

Testing Artificial Photosynthesis

Berkeley Lab Researchers Develop Fully Integrated Microfluidic Test-bed for Solar-driven Electrochemical Energy Conversion Systems.

Bright Lights and Even Brighter Ideas

Office of Science-supported researchers are illuminating the way to better LEDs.

Resistivity Switch is Window to Role of Magnetism in Iron-Based Superconductors

Physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory have discovered surprising changes in electrical resistivity in iron-based superconductors. The findings, reported in Nature Communications, offer further evidence that magnetism and superconductivity are closely related in this class of novel superconductors.

Berkeley Lab Researchers Increase NMR/MRI Sensitivity through Hyperpolarization of Nuclei in Diamond

Berkeley Lab researchers have demonstrated the first magnetically-controlled nearly complete hyperpolarization of the spins of carbon-13 nuclei located near synthetic defects in diamond crystals. This spin hyperpolarization, which can be carried out with refrigerator-style magnets at room temperature, enhances NMR/MRI sensitivity by many orders of magnitude.

Thousands Enjoy Fun Science at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory’s Open House

Office of Science’s world-class research center points way to future possibilities in fusion energy.

Behind the Scenes of Science

New video shows the essential efforts at Berkeley Lab’s Mechanical Fabrication Facility.

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