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2-D Material’s Traits Could Send Electronics R&D Spinning in New Directions

An international team of researchers, working at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and UC Berkeley, fabricated an atomically thin material and measured ...
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The Search for the Earliest Signs of Alzheimer’s

For the past five years, volunteers from the City of Berkeley and surrounding areas have come to Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to participate in an ongoing study that’s changing what ...
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This image is a 3D map of the Universe that shows us six times more galaxies than anything we previously knew ...
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Microbe Mystery Solved: What Happened to the Deepwater Horizon Oil Plume

The Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 is one of the most studied spills in history, yet scientists haven’t agreed on the role of microbes in eating up the oil. Now a research ...
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Alvarez Theory on Dinosaur Die-Out Upheld: Experts Find Asteroid Guilty of Killing the Dinosaurs

In the March 5, 2010 edition of the journal Science, an international panel of 41 experts in geology, paleontology and other related fields, after an exhaustive review of the data, declared an end to ...
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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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Pulling Graphite Out of Thin Air

Graphite, the carbon center of your humble #2 pencil, is also an essential component in technologies such as batteries, smartphones, laptops, and industrial power equipment. Today, nearly all of this ...
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Hurricane Damage to Forests: Berkeley Lab Scientists Study Impacts on Carbon Cycle

When we think of carbon emissions that exacerbate global climate change most of us probably think of the exhaust from automobiles and other vehicles, or smoke billowing from rows of stacks at fossil ...
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3-D Imaging Technique Maps Migration of DNA-carrying Material at the Center of Cells

Scientists have mapped the reorganization of genetic material that takes place when a stem cell matures into a nerve cell. Detailed 3-D visualizations show an unexpected connectivity in the genetic ...
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DESI Opens Access to the Largest 3D Map of the Universe Yet

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument collaboration has publicly released the first 13 months of data from its main survey — a treasure trove that will help other researchers investigate big ...
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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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LZ Experiment Sets New Record in Search for Dark Matter

With 280 days of data, the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) collaboration has made a world-leading search for weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) in areas no experiment has probed before. The new result is ...