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New method for making aviation fuel could cut greenhouse gas emissions.

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From steam to ice, water continues to mystify. Illustration by Jackie Ferrentino.

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Professor Emeritus and former Berkeley Lab Director Chuck Shank has been named by President Obama as one of two recipients of the Enrico Fermi Award.

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Here’s how lax U.S. regulation risks consumer health.

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A study published in Environmental Health Perspectives outlines a new method for assessing how synthetic chemicals and pollutants may contribute to breast cancer risk.

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Study finds gender stereotyping in which men are more strongly associated with science than women has been found in some unlikely countries.

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At LBNL's Molecular Foundry, two robotic chemical-synthesizing machines have joined the search for new antimicrobial compounds.

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The Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering is pleased to announce that Markita Landry, currently a postdoc in MIT’s chemical engineering department, will join the faculty as an assistant professor on July 1, 2016.Read more about Markita Landry to join CBE faculty

New Solar Energy Research Center will foster development of fuels from sunlight; building will be named for Steven Chu, former Berkeley Lab Director and Energy Secretary

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Five new faculty innovators have joined the ranks of the Bakar Fellows Program

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