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The University of California Board of Regents has approved Michael Witherell as director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

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Paul Alivisatos has been tapped to lead the research enterprise at UC Berkeley.

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Omar Yaghi, Yuzhong Liu and Yingbo Zhao led the discovery of how to weave materials at the atomic and molecular level to produce complex organic extended structures.

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Jennifer Doudna joined Joseph Biden this morning at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, as the vice president promoted a major new U.S. initiative to speed the...Read more about Doudna joins Biden in Davos rollout of ‘cancer moonshot’

Graham Fleming is the corresponding author of a paper describing this research in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The paper is titled "...Read more about Seeing the big picture in photosynthetic light harvesting

Researchers have demonstrated quantum effects most clearly in enzyme catalysis and photosynthesis.

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The recent inclusion of four new elements to the periodic table was cause for the clinking of champagne glasses at places where people cook...Read more about It’s Elementary: Berkeley can bask in the glow as more elements hit periodic table

With quantum dots seeping into modern displays, our viewing expectations could drastically change.

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Chris Chang and Omar Yaghi have invented covalent organic frameworks that can transform atmospheric carbon dioxide into a useful building block for biodegradable plastics, fuel, and more.

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Chemistry professor Omar Yaghi has won an inaugural Mustafa Scientific Prize, awarded by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) member states. The award ceremony was held in Tehran, Iran, in December.Read more about Yaghi wins Mustafa Scientific Prize