Discoveries

Scientists develop artificial leaf that uses sunlight to produce valuable chemicals

April 24, 2025
Decades of research leads to self-contained solar panels that convert carbon dioxide into C2 products.

Holding heat in place: stabilizing spin textures in quantum materials

April 17, 2025
A new quantum mechanical spin study from the Ajoy Lab published in Science Advances.

New $115 Million Quantum Systems Accelerator to Pioneer Quantum Technologies for Discovery Science

August 26, 2020
The DOE has awarded $115 million over five years to the Quantum Systems Accelerator (QSA), a new research center led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) that will forge the technological solutions needed to harness quantum information science for discoveries that benefit the world.

Exploring the superheavy elements at the end of the periodic table

May 22, 2019

Nuclear laboratory equipment

The new facility at the Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions in Dubna, Russia, will be used only for superheavy element research. Photo credit: JINR

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Scientists discover new heavy-metal molecule ‘Berkelocene’

March 11, 2025
Breakthrough in heavy-element chemistry shatters long-held assumptions about transuranium elements.

New CRISPR Center brings hope for rare and deadly genetic diseases

January 10, 2024
Jennifer Doudna and colleagues CRISPR collaboration combines expertise from three UC schools to scale treatment for diseases that industry has largely passed by – until now.

Semisynthetic artemisinin anti-malarials reach African children

August 15, 2014

Scientist sitting with a group of children in Kenya

Jay Keasling with children in a village outside Nairobi, Kenya. (Photo by Gabrielle Tenenbaumn)

1.7million treatments of semisynthetic artemisinin have shipped to Africa, where they will treat malaria sufferers in Burkina Faso, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Liberia, Niger and Nigeria over the next few months. This...

UC Berkeley Chemists and the Periodic Table

January 9, 2019

Seaborg, Ghiorso and other 104 discovery colleagues.

Photo: The Rutherfordium (element 104) discovery team in 1969: (l to r) Matti Nurmia, Jim Harris, Kari Eskola, Glen Seaborg, Pirkko Eskola and Albert Ghiorso.

Dimitri Mendeleev, a Russian chemist who in 1869 wrote out the known...

First natural enzyme creates azides from scratch

September 30, 2024
A team of researchers reported the discovery of the first natural enzyme capable of creating complex molecules, azides, from simpler molecules, which could lead to safer drug development and biological research.

New process vaporizes plastic bags and bottles, yielding gases to make new, recycled plastics

August 29, 2024
The catalytic process, discovered by researchers at UC Berkeley, efficiently reduces polymers to chemical precursors, bringing a circular economy for plastics one step closer to reality.