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Every time a storm lashes the Carolina coast, the power lines on Tonye Grays street go down, cutting her lights and air conditioning. After Hurricane

State officials are reluctant to ask ratepayers to foot the bill for investments experts say are needed to fortify the grid against increasingly severe weather.

Synthetic biology project endows bacterium with artificial metalloenzyme, enabling it to execute an "unnatural" chemical reaction.

An exciting new solar material called organic-inorganic halide perovskites could one day help the U.S. achieve its solar ambitions and decarbonize the power grid. One thousand times thinner than s ...

More than 90 years ago, physicist Eugene Wigner predicted that at low densities and cold temperatures, electrons that usually zip through materials would

Scientists have known for a long time that magnetism is created by the spins of electrons lining up in certain ways. But about a decade ago, they

Adapted from a UC Berkeley news release. Synthetic biologists have successfully engineered microbes to make chemicals cheaply and more sustainably. However, researchers have been limited by the fact that microbes can only make molecules using chemical reactions seen in nature. A collaboration between scientists at Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley has engineered the microbe E. coli to produce a molecule that, until now, could only be synthesized in a laboratory. To achieve this outcome, the researche...

Titanium is strong and lightweight, boasting the highest strength to weight ratio of any structural metal.

An exciting new solar material called organic-inorganic halide perovskites could one day help the U.S. achieve its solar ambitions and decarbonize...

A sensational new solar material known as organic-inorganic halide perovskites could soon enable the United States to realize its solar goals and decarbonize the power grid. Perovskite solar materials are one thousand times thinner than silicon and can be altered to respond to various colors of the solar spectrum just by changing their composition mix.