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EUV lithography prints chip circuits 50,000x thinner than a hair, built on decades of research at Berkeley Lab's CXRO.
"CXRO will continue to play a vital role in helping push the boundaries of Moore's Law even further in the many years to come." – Bruno La Fontaine
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Berkeley Lab researchers have developed Time-of-Flight Cascade Gamma Imaging, a new technique that could advance a promising cancer therapy called targeted alpha therapy. Read more: newscenter.lbl.gov/2026/10/0…
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We're wrapping up the first Bay Area Light Sources Users' Meeting of all three local light sources!
SLAC's Linac Coherent Light Source & Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, and @BerkeleyLab's @advlightsource thank you for coming to SLAC!
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“It opens the door to engineering new materials that would affect the fusion rate,” says Arun Persaud, head of our Fusion Science & Ion Beam Technology Program, about new research on #materials-driven #fusion.
@BerkeleyLab @doescience @ENERGY @ucdavis
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For over a decade, nearly every major heat shield material @NASA has flown was tested here first: the Advanced Light Source. newscenter.lbl.gov/2026/09/2…
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“Nearly every major @NASA ablative heat shield material has been studied with this technique at the Advanced Light Source, including those relevant to the Artemis and Mars entry missions.” - Vishnu Oruganti, user of the ALS. newscenter.lbl.gov/2026/09/2…
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"Leveraging our expertise in high-temperature fluid chemistry, we will sample and analyze well fluids and integrate results into simulation codes to evaluate thermochemical evolution and phase transitions during operation." says @berkeleylab's Eva Schill interestingengineering.com/e…
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Join us in celebrating Hakyung Lee, Adway Gupta, Paula-Marie Ivey, and Mythili Surendran — this year’s winners of the 2026 Berkeley Lab Research SLAM!
Congratulations to all 12 finalists who took the stage to share their science in three minutes.
@LBNLpathways #LabSLAM2026 slam.lbl.gov/
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“We’re pushing it into new high-temperature superconductor territory, where almost every design choice lets us genuinely innovate,” says Penelope Quassolo, a graduate student working in our Superconducting Magnet Program.
@BerkeleyLab @doescience @ENERGY
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Celebrating our incredible postdocs @BerkeleyLab! 🎉 Their brilliance, dedication, & collaborative spirit make a meaningful impact everyday. Here’s to the diligence, creativity, & good energy that make the ATAP postdocs so special! 🎉
@doescience @ENERGY
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"Looking forward to working with @PNNLab & @OregonState to analyze findings from the first three geothermal wells," says @berkeleylab's Eva Schill. "This will inform future drilling, including plans to reach record-setting temperatures above 400°C." msn.com/en-us/money/general/…
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Today at 3 p.m.: Cheer on 12 Berkeley Lab early-career scientists as they take the stage for the 2026 Research SLAM. Join us in Building 50 Auditorium or watch live at streaming.lbl.gov.
#LabSLAM2026
12 early-career scientists. Three minutes each. One stage.
Join us for the 2026 Berkeley Lab Research SLAM on Wednesday, Sept. 23 from 3–4:30p PT.
Onsite? Building 50 Auditorium
Online? streaming.lbl.gov
Details? slam.lbl.gov
@LBNLPathways #LabSLAM2026
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Our August All-to-All meeting featured a science talk on enhanced nuclear fusion, an update from our IPO office, a presentation on appreciation as a core stewardship value, and changes to the @BerkeleyLab access process.
@doescience @ENERGY @ucdavis
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“There’s something rewarding about walking people through the ‘why’ and ‘how’ behind what we do,” says Staff Scientist Kei Nakamura, reflecting on showing student interns the BELLA Center’s laser facilities.
@BerkeleyLab @LBNLALIFT @doescience @ENERGY
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Welcome! This new video tour welcomes viewers into the exciting and vibrant research environment ...
Inside the Physics Division at Berkeley Lab
@LBNLphysics @BerkeleyLab
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"Honored to see our autonomous materials science lab, or "A-Lab," featured atop this important story in @sciam on AI-driven research," says @berkeleylab's Gerd Ceder. "Autonomous labs are dramatically accelerating the pace of scientific discovery." scientificamerican.com/artic…
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“Snow-eater heat waves are caused by the buildup of atypical high pressure," says @berkeleylab's Alan Rhoades. "Like a boulder diverting water in a stream, the unusual high pressure diverts storms away from mountains." earth.com/climate/heatwaves-…
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Light sources unite!
We’re kicking off the first-ever meeting for all three Bay Area light sources – SLAC’s Linac Coherent Light Source, our Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource and @BerkeleyLab's @advlightsource – here this week!
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Congratulations to Anthony Vazquez, a graduate student at our BELLA Center, who received a student poster award at this year’s Advanced Accelerator Concepts Workshop, held in Los Angeles, California, July 26–31.
@BerkeleyLab @doescience @ENERGY
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"The pressure for utilities to stay on top of technologies is threefold: the ubiquity of customer-sited grid-edge technologies, mounting threats to reliability & resilience from storms and wildfires, and new large loads," says @berkeleylab's Pete Cappers. publicpower.org/periodical/a…
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