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10 Years of Cyclotron Road Helping Entrepreneurs Bring Technologies to Market

For 10 years, Cyclotron Road, housed at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (Berkeley Lab), has been supporting scientists, researchers, and innovators in scaling emerging technologies and bringing them to ...
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How Researchers Are Driving Advances for Data Centers

Today’s technologies depend increasingly on computers and artificial intelligence — largely powered by data centers, which have become essential U.S. infrastructure. Over the past two decades, data ...
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A Simple Blood Test Could Reveal Hidden Radiation Exposure

Scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have developed a machine learning tool that can detect and estimate past radiation exposure using the information in a standard ...
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The Quantum Systems Accelerator Embarks on Next Five Years of Pioneering Quantum Technologies for Science

The Department of Energy (DOE) has renewed funding for the Quantum Systems Accelerator (QSA), a DOE National Quantum Information Science Research Center led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ...
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Improving U.S. Industrial Competitiveness and Productivity

Three projects led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) are among those selected as part of a $155 million Department of Energy (DOE) investment in American industrial innovation.
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Copper Catalyst Yields High Efficiency CO2-to-Fuels Conversion

Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have developed a new electrocatalyst that can directly convert carbon dioxide into multicarbon fuels and ...
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Big Batteries on Wheels Can Deliver Zero-Emissions Rail While Securing the Grid

Trains have been on the sidelines of electrification efforts for a long time in the U.S. because they account for only 2% of transportation sector emissions, but diesel freight trains emit 35 million ...
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Experiment to Capture Universe’s Earliest Moments Reaches Funding Milestone

Editor’s note: CMB-S4 is a next-generation experiment studying the cosmic microwave background. The project is jointly supported by the Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation.
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Pushing the Boundaries of Moore’s Law: How Can Extreme UV Light Produce Tiny Microchips?

Advances in microelectronics – also known as microchips or chips – have enabled fast, powerful, compact smartphones and laptops – electronic devices that were once, long ago, the stuff of science ...
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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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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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How Scientists Are Accelerating Next-Gen Microelectronics

A new center led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) could accelerate the next revolution in microchips, the tiny silicon components used in everything from smartphones to smart ...