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Naomi Ginsberg and her colleagues devised a measurement that transforms an optical "super-resolution" microscopy known as STED (stimulated emission depletion) into a tracker of...Read more about Tracking Energy Flow in Light-harvesting Systems on Native Nanometer and Picosecond Scales

The College salutes the pioneer women chemistry faculty at Cal. Both as scientists, and as early faculty members at the University, they helped to pave the way for the next generations of women faculty and students.Read more about The first women chemists at Cal

In the current issue of the journal Cell Reports, Ke Xu and his colleagues at UC Berkeley use the technique to provide a sharp view of the geodesic mesh that supports the outer membrane of a red blood cell, revealing why such cells are sturdy yet flexible enough to squeeze through narrow...Read more about Super-resolution microscopy reveals fine detail of cellular mesh

A breakthrough by Peidong Yang could one day help tall buildings use dramatically less energy, by using their windows to generate electricity. For the full story visit...Read more about UC Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab will one day make windows work like solar panels

With the right technology, the gas station of the future will make its own fuel directly from sunlight, in the process sucking up carbon and producing oxygen. Decades into the future, the same technology could provide fuel and oxygen for the first Martians, and could even be tweaked to produce...Read more about Artificial leaves to produce fuel on Earth and, one day, Mars

Peidong Yang, a professor of chemistry and faculty scientist at Berkeley Lab, and his colleagues have tweaked the chemical structure of perovskite — a versatile...Read more about Chemists create tinted windows that also generate electricity

The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Basic Sciences category goes, in this tenth edition, to Jordanian-American chemist Omar Yaghi, “...Read more about Omar Yaghi wins BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Basic Sciences

The research, led by Peidong Yang of Berkeley Lab's Materials Sciences Division, was published this week in the journal Nature Materials in a study titled, "...Read more about Yang and colleagues discover material for smart photovoltaic windows

Prasad Raghavendra, an associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science, and Jennifer Doudna, a professor of molecular and cell biology and of chemistry, were...Read more about National Academy of Sciences honors Raghavendra, Doudna