Berkeley Lab, UC Berkeley scientists adapt next-gen solar cell materials for a different purpose.
February 11, 2016
LBNL News
February 9, 2016
Ming Hammond and co-authors publish paper on bacterial sensing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
UC Berkeley News
A new $25 million grant from the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) puts UC Berkeley at the head of a multi-institution consortium.Read the article.
Chemistry professor Felix Fischer has been awarded the 2016 Carl Duisberg Memorial Prize by the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh, German Chemical Society).
January 27, 2016
UC Newsroom
One hundred sixty-five UC faculty were among the most influential scientists in their fields in 2015.
January 21, 2016
LBNL News
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.
UC Berkeley News
Paul Alivisatos has been tapped to lead the research enterprise at UC Berkeley.
University of CA Press Room
The University of California Board of Regents has approved Michael Witherell as director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
January 19, 2016
UC Berkeley News
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.
January 18, 2016
LBNL News
Graham Fleming is the corresponding author of a paper describing this research in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
January 12, 2016
ASBMB Today
Researchers have demonstrated quantum effects most clearly in enzyme catalysis and photosynthesis.
January 7, 2016
California Magazine
The recent inclusion of four new elements to the periodic table was cause for the clinking of champagne glasses at places where people cook up such exotic stuff, including Berkeley.
California Magazine
With quantum dots seeping into modern displays, our viewing expectations could drastically change.
California Magazine
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.
January 5, 2016
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.
January 1, 2016
LBNL News
Berkeley Lab scientists teach bacterium a new trick for artificial photosynthesis. Photo by Roy Kaltschmidt.
December 22, 2015
Nature
Jennifer Doudna, a pioneer of the revolutionary genome-editing technology, reflects on how 2015 became the most intense year of her career — and what she's learned.
UC Berkeley News
Paul Alivisatos and Chenming Hu have been selected to receive the nation's top honors in science and technology.
December 21, 2015
LBNL News
Nitash Balsarsa and collaborator Joseph DeSimone discovery may enable next-generation cathodes. Photo by Roy Kaltschmidt.
December 17, 2015
Science
Science singles out CRISPR gene-editing as the Breakthrough of the Year.