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The National Alliance for Water Innovation (NAWI), which is led by Berkeley Lab, has been extended for five more years with $75 million in funding fromDOE. NAWI

Certain research on biological and chemical systems — such as sustainable manufacturing, ultrafast computing and pharmaceuticals — can only be done today using high-powered lasers like the newly built LCLS-II, which will be in service and available to researchers in November.

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC) has spent more than a decade developing an X-ray that can take images of atoms at greater speeds than ever before. Its just produced its first images, promising a great leap in research.

The newly upgraded Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) X-ray free-electron laser (XFEL) at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory successfully produced its first X-rays, and researchers around the world are already lined up to kick off an ambitious science program.

The newly upgraded Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) X-ray free-electron laser (XFEL) at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory successfully produced its first X-rays, and researchers around the world are already lined up to kick off an ambitious science program.

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, or LBNL, Director Mike Witherfell appointed Paul Adams as the lab's associate director of biosciences Jan. 31 following an international search for potential candidates.

Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm visited the Bay Area on Friday, Aug. 20, making a two-hour stop at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source at sunset. (Credit: Thor Swift/Berkeley Lab) The U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) supports more than 10,000 jobs in the Bay Area and nearly 20,000 jobs across the country, according to a new economic impact study that underscores Berkeley Lab’s role as a major employer in the East Bay in addition to being a powerhouse of innovation. The study also determined that every federal dollar invested in Berkeley ...

 E-Mail IMAGE: Michael Grätzel, winner of the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Basic Sciences. view more  Credit: BBVA FOUNDATION The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Basic Sciences category has gone in this thirteenth edition to Paul Alivisatos (University of California, Berkeley, United States) and Michael Grätzel (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland) for their fundamental contributions to the development of new nanomaterials a...

 E-Mail IMAGE: From left: Berkeley Lab scientist Susannah Tringe, Dan Kasen, and former Berkeley Lab scientist M. Zahid are winners of the Lawrence Award. view more  Credit: Berkeley Lab, Noah Berger/UC Berkeley, Princeton University The Department of Energy has announced that Susannah Tringe and Dan Kasen, two scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), will receive the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award, one of DOEs highest honors. Additionally, former Berkeley La...