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Some local organizations have made the bet on solar. But there are challenges, such as a long line to connect to the grid and a lack of storage solutions for dark hours.

Ammonia is the starting point for the fertilizers that have secured the worlds food supply for the last century. Its also a main component of cleaning products, and is even considered as a future carbon-free replacement for fossil fuels in vehicles.

Open access notables How much storage do we need in a fully electrified future? A critical review of the assumptions on which this question depends, Marsden et al., Energy Research & Social Science:

It seems strange that, after all these years, research is still being carried out into the danger of cigarettes but as a team at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has proved this week, there’s still plenty to uncover. It is well known that cigarette smoke contains many contaminants, including toxic metals…

A team of Berkeley Lab battery researchers led by Elton Cairns has invented an advanced lithium/sulfur (Li/S) cell that, for the first time, offers both long cycle life and a high discharge rate in addition to the inherently low cost and light weight of Li/S batteries.

Cigarette smoke has been studied for years, revealing a multitude of contaminants, including toxic metals.

Cigarette smoke has been studied for years, revealing a multitude of contaminants, including toxic metals. But exactly which of those metals can be traced to secondhand or thirdhand smoke?

By reducing the amount of required training images and increasing the size of images that can be processed, the new architecture can be used to answer important questions in many research fields.

Berkeley Lab scientists say marriage opens door to development of single device with exceptional range of optical capabilities

A multistep biosynthetic process in yeast cheaply produces an expensive adjuvant now extracted from tree bark.