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Official account of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), a U.S. Department of Energy national lab. newscenter.lbl.gov
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Excited about the future of energy? So are we! Discover how our researchers are working on innovative technologies to make fusion energy a reality and bring us closer to cleaner, more accessible power! Details ⬇️
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November 11, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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DYK the Earth's heat is a constant, renewable source of energy 🔥♻️⚡️?

In our new Explainer Series, we explain how enhanced geothermal systems (EGS) go beyond natural hot spots to unlock resilient power almost anywhere. Check it out! 🧪 ⬇️
Conventional vs. Enhanced Geothermal: What’s the Difference?
Discover the difference between conventional and enhanced geothermal systems and their potential to deliver abundant, resilient energy almost anywhere.
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November 10, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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✨ Congratulations to state leaders, researchers, and industry partners on launching #QuantumCalifornia, a statewide effort to accelerate quantum technology, grow the workforce, and drive economic impact. @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social
November 8, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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Scientists engineer a yeast to convert urine into hydroxyapatite, a high-value material used to repair bones and teeth. The tech could offset high costs of wastewater treatment and more. Details ⬇️🧪🦠

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New Process Uses Microbes to Create Valuable Materials from Urine
Engineered yeast can produce artificial bone and other materials while lowering the cost of wastewater management
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November 6, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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💻 ⚙️ Researchers our @molecularfoundry.lbl.gov and George Washington University have discovered that atoms in semiconductors self-organize, changing material properties and enabling next-gen quantum and defense tech. Get the details ⬇️
Atomic Neighborhoods in Semiconductors Provide New Avenue for Designing Microelectronics
Advanced microscopy proves that dilute elements in semiconductors have preferred arrangements, not just random distribution
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November 5, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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The Quantum Systems Accelerator (QSA) at Berkeley Lab, co-led with Sandia National Laboratories, received $125M in renewed funding from the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science. 🧪 ✨
The Quantum Systems Accelerator Embarks on Next Five Years of Pioneering Quantum Technologies for Science
Berkeley Lab-led center will accelerate progress toward practical quantum computers, ultra-precise sensors, and powerful new tools for science.
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November 4, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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DYK AI isn’t just changing the game, it’s helping us discover faster? From nanoscale materials to supercomputing, Berkeley Lab researchers are using AI to accelerate science in real time! Learn more ⬇️✨

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How AI and Automation are Speeding Up Science and Discovery
Berkeley Lab is transforming research across disciplines from energy to materials science and more, strengthening American innovation and the nation’s scientific edge.
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November 4, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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“Now, researchers can create truly adaptive HPC-supported quantum experiments… enabling a new era of quantum discovery.” — Bert de Jong, QSA Center Director ✨
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New Berkeley Lab and NVIDIA Partnership Integrates Quantum and AI Supercomputing for Next-Generation Research
A new partnership between Berkeley Lab and NVIDIA is harnessing QubiC and NVQLink technology to connect QPUs, GPUs, and CPUs.
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October 30, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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“QubiC is one of the first open-source platforms to tightly integrate quantum hardware control, hybrid quantum-classical workflows, and HPC.” — Gang Huang, Berkeley Lab

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New Berkeley Lab and NVIDIA Partnership Integrates Quantum and AI Supercomputing for Next-Generation Research
A new partnership between Berkeley Lab and NVIDIA is harnessing QubiC and NVQLink technology to connect QPUs, GPUs, and CPUs.
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October 29, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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In a big step for quantum computing, Berkeley Lab and NVIDIA are integrating quantum processors to supercomputers via NVQLink. Our open-source QubiC controller will bring us closer to more powerful and reliable quantum computers. #NVIDIAGTC @atap.lbl.gov
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NVIDIA Introduces NVQLink — Connecting Quantum and GPU Computing for 17 Quantum Builders and Nine Scientific Labs
NVIDIA today announced NVIDIA NVQLink™, an open system architecture for tightly coupling the extreme performance of GPU computing with quantum processors to build accelerated quantum supercomputers.
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October 28, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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✨ AI + supercomputing = real-time science. Berkeley Lab’s AI tools analyze data as it’s created, helping our scientists make discoveries faster. @nersc.bsky.social @esnet.bsky.social
Accelerating Discovery with AI and Automation at Berkeley Lab
At Berkeley Lab, we're accelerating the pace of science. Our teams and facilities are powering a new era of discovery, combining artificial intelligence, automation, and advanced data processing into integrated systems of rapid discovery. From robotic...
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October 24, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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We’re part of a team of 80 researchers across 15 institutions pushing the boundaries of quantum information science. Collaboration is how discovery scales.
⚛️ https://quantumsystemsaccelerator.org/
October 23, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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We’re exploring the quantum frontier to solve challenges today’s tech can’t touch. From theory to application, every discovery moves us closer to what’s next. ⚛️
At the Leading Edge of the Quantum Frontier
Quantum information systems are poised to solve global challenges that are far beyond the reach of today’s technologies.
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October 22, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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AI is transforming how science gets done. At Berkeley Lab, automation and data systems are helping our researchers make discoveries faster than ever. ✨
How AI and Automation are Speeding Up Science and Discovery
Berkeley Lab is transforming research across disciplines from energy to materials science and more, strengthening American innovation and the nation’s scientific edge.
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October 21, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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At Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, we’re tackling one of AI’s toughest challenges: generating reliable insights from limited data about Earth’s subsurface, where 80% of global energy originates. Learn how ⬇️ @eesaberkeleylab.bsky.social
October 17, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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🎉Congrats to @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social's Omar Yaghi, awarded the 2025 @nobelprize.bsky.social in Chemistry for pioneering reticular chemistry and creating metal–organic frameworks (MOFs). Yaghi led our @molecularfoundry.lbl.gov and is now an affiliate in the Lab’s Materials Sciences Division.
UC Berkeley’s Omar Yaghi shares 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry - Berkeley News
Yaghi created a field called reticular chemistry, which involves stitching together molecular building blocks to form porous structures — metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) — with myriad applications.
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October 8, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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🏅 Former Berkeley Lab senior scientist John Clarke has won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics. His research on quantum tunneling in electric circuits paved the way for today’s quantum computers and sensors. 🧠 This brings LBNL’s Nobel count to 17!

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Former Berkeley Lab Scientist John Clarke Wins 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics
The Nobel Prize committee honored former Berkeley Lab scientist John Clarke for research in quantum tunneling in electric circuits.
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October 7, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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🔊 Join us for the Great Berkeley ShakeOut at @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social

📅 Thursday, Oct 16
🕚 11a–2p PT
📍 Sproul Plaza

Visit our booth to hear from a Berkeley Lab subject matter expert, who will share the latest in earthquake simulation research. #BerkeleyShakeOut
October 1, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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"Every breakthrough in science invites both excitement and scrutiny," says @berkeleylab.lbl.gov 's Kristin Persson. "There is tremendous promise in applying data-driven AI and machine learning to the discovery, direction, and optimization of materials."
AI is dreaming up millions of new materials. Are they any good?
Critics slammed attempts by Google, Microsoft and Meta to speed up materials discovery. But behind the hype, there is progress.
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October 1, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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"Windows lose 10x to 20x more energy per square foot than a well-insulated wall," says Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Steve Selkowitz who's pioneering work decades ago led to the development of these thinner, more efficient windows.
These windows are credit-card thin. They’re about to revolutionize the way we design buildings
The company behind the iPhone's gorilla glass is now making ultra-thin, extra sustainable windows.
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September 29, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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STAR just reported its most precise data yet in the search for a nuclear-matter “critical point.” Why it matters: sharper tests of theory for how quarks & gluons change phase under extreme conditions. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory helped lead the analysis.

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More Signs of Phase-change ‘Turbulence' in Nuclear Matter
Members of the The results, Discovering the critical point has been a central goal of research at RHIC, a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science user facility for nuclear physics research at DOE's Brookhaven National Laboratory. Like centurie...
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September 29, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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With sadness and gratitude, we honor George F. Smoot III—Berkeley Lab scientist since 1974 and 2006 Nobel Laureate in Physics—who has passed away at 80. His “baby picture” of the universe changed cosmology. https://elements.lbl.gov/news/honoring-the-legacy-of-george-smoot/

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September 29, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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“We provided irrefutable proof that we could make the quark-gluon plasma in the laboratory. That’s a big deal, because that’s re-creating the Big Bang in a little bang.” – Barbara Jacak, Berkeley Lab nuclear physicist who worked on RHIC’s PHENIX particle detector

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Storied atom-smasher that makes tiny Big Bangs wraps up mission
For 26 years, the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider has re-created the quark-gluon plasma that filled the infant universe
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September 25, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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💻⚙️ Atoms in semiconductors don’t just fall randomly into place, they self-organize in ways that change material properties.

This discovery from our @molecularfoundry.lbl.gov & George Washington University could transform how we design microelectronics for quantum + defense tech. 🧪

Atomic Neighborhoods in Semiconductors Provide New Avenue for Designing Microelectronics
Advanced microscopy proves that dilute elements in semiconductors have preferred arrangements, not just random distribution
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September 25, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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🦌 🐍 🦃 Always a reminder that Berkeley Lab’s hilltop campus is shared with incredible neighbors. From coyotes and deer to rattlesnakes and turkeys, wildlife is part of our daily landscape, and a sign of our unique environment where world-class science meets the natural world. 💙#WildlifeWednesday
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@jgi.doe.gov sr. engineering associate Berkeley Kauffman was arriving at @berkeleylab.lbl.gov's main site when he encountered this guy out for a morning stroll. "It's aways cool seeing how much wildlife shares the Hill with us!" he noted. #WildlifeWednesday
September 24, 2025 at 8:13 PM