Battery Breakthrough Gives Boost to Electric Flight and Long-Range Electric Cars

Researchers at Berkeley Lab and Carnegie Mellon University have designed new solid...
The Secret to Renewable Solar Fuels Is an Off-and-On Again Relationship

A close-up of a piece of copper ore.
New View of Nature’s Oldest Light Adds Fresh Twist to Debate Over Universe’s Age

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope measures the oldest light...
Runaway Star Might Explain Black Hole's Disappearing Act

This illustration shows a black hole surrounded by a disk of gas. In the left panel, a streak of debris falls toward the...
How colliding neutron stars could shed light on Universal mysteries

How colliding neutron stars could shed light on Universal mysteries
Cases of Black Hole Mistaken Identity

Cases of Black Hole Mistaken Identity
In a first, astronomers watch a black hole’s corona disappear, then reappear

This diagram shows how a shifting feature, called a corona, can create a flare of X-rays...
Charm Quarks Offer Clues to Confinement

A collision of gold nuclei recorded by the Berkeley Lab-built Heavy Flavor Tracker (...