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Official account of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), a U.S. Department of @ENERGY national lab.
Joined October 2008
Congratulations to former Berkeley Lab PhD student @Claudiashein, the FIRST elected female Mayor of #MexicoCity 🇲🇽
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This atomic-scale movie upends a 100-year-old theory! Thanks to record-breaking 🔬 video resolution at our @molecularfoundry, scientists have discovered 🔎 how atomic-scale defects direct #nanoparticle growth. Check it out ⬇️ .
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And we're awake now. Did you feel that? According to the @USGS, a 4.0 #earthquake at a depth of 5.0 miles, centered in El Cerrito, CA was felt here in Berkeley at 3:39a PT. Remember to DROP, COVER, and HOLD ON! #SafetyFirst
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Today, we celebrate Shyamala Gopalan Harris, a pioneering biomedical scientist, activist, mentor, and mother to Madam @VP @KamalaHarris. Let's honor her inspiring legacy during #WomensHistoryMonth. #BringingScienceSolutionsToTheWorld #WomenInSTEM
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🏅 CHEMISTRY for the WIN! CONGRATULATIONS to @UCBerkeley Professor and Berkeley Lab Faculty Scientist Jennifer Doudna (@doudna_lab) and French Professor & Researcher Emmanuelle Charpentier, WINNERS of the 2020 @NobelPrize in #Chemistry! . #womeninSTEM #NobelPrize
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Grinnell, the peregrine falcon nesting atop @UCBerkeley's Campanile has officially laid her third egg! 🥚🥚🥚 Take a live look here »
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Enjoy this "moon roll" from @beesandbombs and don't forget to look up tonight for the final #fullmoon of 2018! 🌘🌗🌖🌕🌔🌓🌒 #SaturdayMotivation
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The #science of why no one agrees on the color of this dress http://t.co/y0md2b8EeU
#dressgate @WIRED
http://t.co/UBVXVIaIxb.
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@tmorello @Harvard @CarolynBertozzi @NobelPrize Any photos of "Bored of Education" you can share with the scientific world? We'd love to see 'em! Cheers from Berkeley.
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Congratulations to Kristin Persson, the new director of Berkeley Lab's @MolecularFndry!.@KPatBerkeley @persson_group @UCBerkeley @Cal_Engineer
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What's better than herding #goats or working at Berkeley Lab? Herding goats while working at Berkeley Lab!!!! "Come to daddy!" 🤣🐐🐐🐐🐕🐕 (🎥: @CalypsosPoet) #videooftheday #lablife @BerkeleyLabJobs
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Yes, @Claudiashein has an #SFBayArea connection! She worked our Lab, aka Berkeley Lab (LBNL), while pursuing her PhD at @UNAM_MX, analyzing energy consumption & contributed to the Nobel Peace Prize-winning UN #IPCC! #science.
Claudia Sheinbaum, who was elected as Mexico's first female president, spent four years at Berkeley Lab as a researcher. STORY:
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🌘🌗🌖🌕🌔🌓🌒 Enjoy this mesmerizing "moon roll" from @beesandbombs, ahead of tonight's Sturgeon #fullmoon, the last #supermoon of 2022!
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@KamalaHarris 💙 Your mother was an incredible woman, role model, and researcher! We are proud to have had her at @BerkeleyLab, continuing her work on the role of hormone receptors in #BreastCancer development. 💙#BringingScienceSolutionsToTheWorld #InternationalWomensDay #WomenInSTEM
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🤔 How do plasma jets launch away from the powerful pull of black holes? Simulations provide new clues! @UCBerkeley @NASA @Ames_Laboratory @FlatironInst @UGrenobleAlpes
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90 years ago this week, physicist Wolfgang Pauli penned a letter proposing a new particle, which became known as the #neutrino. It was found 26 years later, and our scientists and others have since learned a lot about this “ghostly” particle. #neutrino90 .
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Smoke from wildfires 🔥 in our state blocks the #EastBay and entire Bay Area from the sun. Here are a few photos taken this morning at our main site in the #Berkeley Hills. View more via @BerkeleyLab on IN & FB. 📷: @CalypsosPoet .#wildfiresmoke #lbnlwfh
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In addition to being Berkeley Lab’s first woman to win a @NobelPrize, Jennifer Doudna – along with Emmanuelle Charpentier – is part of the first all-women research team to win a #NobelPrize. @LBNLBioSci @UCBerkeley @UCB_Chemistry #womeninSTEM @doudna_lab.
This year’s Chemistry Laureate Jennifer A. Doudna was born in 1964 in Washington, D.C, USA. She is a Professor at @UCBerkeley, USA and Investigator at @HHMINEWS. #NobelPrize
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Q: Why can't you trust an atom? ⚛️. A: Because they make up everything! 🤣. Happy #WorldQuantumDay! . #science #FridayFunday
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Thank you for visiting us @Claudiashein! We look forward to future collaborations with you in waste, water and energy management. 👏🏽 #TeamScience.
Agradezco profundamente al @BerkeleyLab, donde tuve la oportunidad de estudiar, por el reconocimiento que me entregó. Conversamos sobre manejo de residuos, agua y energía con vistas a tener una colaboración entre esta institución, las universidades del país y la Ciudad de México.
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🌬 . because science!!! 😊🤓.
When aeronautics engineers are bored
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The @DESIsurvey Data Release 1 is now available for all to explore and has information on 18.7 million galaxies, quasars, and stars (seen here) – the largest dataset of its kind. #arXiv #DESIsurvey.
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🔭 #DarkEnergy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Creates Largest #3D Map of the Cosmos 🪐☄️💫✨.⬇️.. @desisurvey
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Today we celebrate James Harris: He was a Berkeley Lab #scientist and the 1st #AfricanAmerican to play a key role in the search for new elements. He is credited with helping to discover Rutherfordium (Rf) & Dubnium (Db)! ⚗️🤓 #BlackHistoryMonth ⬇️.
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New results from the world’s most sensitive #DarkMatter detector (@lzdarkmatter) put the best-ever limits on particles called WIMPs, a leading candidate for what makes up our universe’s invisible mass. Read the full story ⬇️ .
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All year long we're celebrating the 150th anniversary of the periodic table, #IYPT2019. #DYK that almost the entire bottom row of elements, from neptunium to seaborgium, was discovered by Berkeley Lab scientists? That’s #16elements! Full story » @IYPT2019
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Today we remember the incredible legacy of Shyamala Gopalan, a biomedical chemist who made notable strides in #BreastCancer research & who was a source of inspiration for many including her daughter, @VP @KamalaHarris. #WomenInSTEM #WomensHistoryMonth @BBC
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It’s that time of year again. 🐐🐐🐐 Our goats are back, so we had to repost this from 2015! #FlashbackFriday @ENERGY
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Today we welcome @ENERGY Secretary Jennifer Granholm (@SecGranholm) to Berkeley Lab. Our Director @witherell_lbnl greets her at the Integrative Genomics Building for talks on how our Lab is supporting the DOE mission including #cleanenergy and #climate.
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DYK biochemists Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier, co-winners of the 2020 @NobelPrize in #Chemistry, were the first all-woman team to take home #NobelPrize gold?. #WomensHistoryMonth #WomenInSTEM.@UCBerkeley @igisci @NobelWomen .
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New $115 Million Quantum Systems Accelerator to pioneer #quantum technologies for discovery science. Details: @SandiaLabs @ENERGY
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#DidYouKnow #Jupiter’s gravity protects #Earth from asteroids? This #GIF by Petr Scheirich demonstrates! #space
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Today we celebrate James Harris: He was a Berkeley Lab #scientist & the 1st #AfricanAmerican to play a key role in the search for new elements. He is credited w/helping to discover Rutherfordium (Rf) & Dubnium (Db)! ⚗️🤓 #BlackHistoryMonth
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The ROCK STARS from @Livermore_Lab and @lasers_llnl.are NOW LIVE to tell you everything you want to know about their incredible fusion breakthrough! Tune in now ⬇️
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That moment in 1946 you learn your innovation will be made into a feature film that will go on to win Academy Awards in 2024 for⬇️.🍿Best Picture.🎬Best Directing.🕴🏼Best Actor.🎼Best Original Score.🎥Best Cinematography.🎞️Best Editing.🕴🏼Best Supporting Actor.#Oppenheimer #Oscars
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CONGRATULATIONS to @CarolynBertozzi on winning the 2022 @NobelPrize in #Chemistry, from all of us here at Berkeley Lab! (Thread 1/15). @molecularfndry @UCB_Chemistry @UCBerkeley @doescience @ENERGY #NobelPrize
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Researchers use our Materials Project to develop new materials for future tech - think better batteries or solar cells. With new #materials calculated by @GoogleDeepMind, they’ll have even more data to work with. @Nature #AI #FutureTech. The latest ⬇️ .
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Right time. Right place. Fleeting #sunset. ☀️ #bestviewfromalab.(📷: @CalypsosPoet).#photooftheday #berkeley #scicomm
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🎉 CONGRATULATIONS to former @molecularfndry Director @CarolynBertozzi, WINNER of the 2022 @NobelPrize 🏅 in #Chemistry! She shares the award w/Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless “for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry.” #NobelPrize @UCB_Chemistry.
BREAKING NEWS: .The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2022 #NobelPrize in Chemistry to Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless “for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry.”
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🔭 #DarkEnergy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Creates Largest #3D Map of the Cosmos 🪐☄️💫✨.⬇️.. @desisurvey
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Microscopic zoom-in on a bacterium on a diatom on an amphipod from #MicroUniverse. #nano #GIF #science
http://t.co/ogg2OASQz4.
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Our scientists have developed photon-avalanching nanoparticles that exhibit a phenomenon called “intrinsic optical bistability,” which could enable optical memory for #OpticalComputing. . @molecularfndry @EmoryChanNano
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RIP Murray Gell-Mann, an American physicist who won the @NobelPrize in physics for his work on the theory of elementary particles. @ENERGY @sfiscience.
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That makes sixteen! Today we added our latest #NobelPrize recipients to the Nobel Laureates wall in Building 50. Introducing @CarolynBertozzi (🏅 in #Chemistry) and John Clauser (🏅 in #Physics). If onsite, stop by and take a selfie 📷 with our latest nobelists and tag us. 🙌🏽
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New @NSF Physics Frontier Center will focus on #neutronstar modeling in ‘gravitational wave era.’ . Story: . @UCBerkeley @LosAlamosNatLab @NCState @NorthwesternU @ohiou @penn_state @UCSanDiego @universityofky @UMNews @UofNH @NotreDame @UW @UWMadison
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DYK that biochemist Jennifer Doudna was the first individual woman at Berkeley Lab to win a #Nobel Prize? It happened on October 7, 2020. ⬇️. #WomensHistoryMonth .@igisci @UCBerkeley @nobelwomen @NobelPrize
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The @LEGO_Group adds more women in #science to its lineup http://t.co/Je3nfdjUr7
#WomenInSTEM #goodnews
http://t.co/WrhNyzDbsk.
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Don't miss this downloadable @ATLASexperiment #ColoringBook. It introduces kids to the field of High-Energy #Physics, as well as the work being carried out by the ATLAS Collaboration at @CERN! (. and is available in 13 languages) . 🎨
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🐐🐐🐐🐐 Look at 'em goat!!! Check out the Goats 'R Us goats as they are moved from building 77 to 62. #wildlifewednesday #lablife #LBNLwfh. (🎥: @CalypsosPoet & Salomon Guzman)
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Biochemist Judith Klinman is known for her work on enzyme catalysis & her leadership in the science community. She was the first female professor in the physical sciences @UCBerkeley & received the National Medal of Science in 2012. #WomensHistoryMonth.
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Let's hear it for Jennifer Doudna, a Lab biochemist & CRISPR/Cas9 pioneer who formally received @theNASciences Award 🏅 in Chemical Sciences on Sunday #NASmember #NAS155 @UCBerkeley
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The @desisurvey is one of the most extensive surveys of the cosmos ever conducted. The state-of-the-art instrument can capture light from 5,000 galaxies simultaneously. ⬇️ . #space #DarkEnergy
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Congratulations to retired Berkeley Lab Senior Faculty Scientist Ashok Gadgil, awarded the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, the nation’s highest honor for technological achievement. The award is bestowed by @POTUS on America's leading innovators. @USPTO @UCBerkeley
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DYK physicist Chien-Shiung Wu was the first to document evidence of entanglement? Her work inspired decades of later research, but she was not mentioned in the 2022 @NobelPrize which honored experimental entanglement work. #WomensHistoryMonth #WomenInSTEM
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An experiment to capture unprecedented #3D images of the trajectories of charged particles has been demonstrated using cosmic rays as they travel through a cryostat filled with a ton of liquid argon. @LBNLphysics @DUNEScience @Fermilab .👇🏽.
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Jennifer Doudna received her Nobel Prize medal on Tuesday, right here in Berkeley! Congratulations again to her and her team! 🙌🏽👏🏾✌🏼👍🏻 @igisci @UCBerkeley @NobelPrize #WomenInSTEM
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🎉 Today we celebrate our 90th birthday!!! Known as Founder's Day, it marks the date in 1931 when our founder, Ernest O. Lawrence, received permission to open up a lab to pursue his studies of particle acceleration. 🥳 90 feels GREAT btw!!! .📷: D. Cooksey, 1936. #BerkeleyLab90
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A socially distanced wildlife show of force. because they can! .🦃 🦃 🦃 🦃 🦃 #wildlifewednesday #PhotoOfTheDay .(📷: Junze Zhou / @molecularfndry)
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In 1939, blackboards weren't only for writing scientific notes and ideas – they were also used to track and confirm E.O. Lawrence's @NobelPrize win! . @ucberkeley @uofcalifornia @Livermore_Lab #WayBackWednesday #ScienceHistory #Oppenheimer
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Her work “sparked many advances regarding the role of progesterone in and it’s cellular receptor in breast biology and cancer. The world of women affected by #BreastCancer changed for the better because of [Goplan’s] presence in it.” - @BCAction
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Microscopic zoom-in on a bacterium on a diatom on an amphipod from #MicroUniverse. #nano #GIF #science
http://t.co/5RHrqb5LxD.
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12 billion times size of sun! RT @ScienceNews: Monster black hole lurks in the early universe: http://t.co/YGwcn50FQq
http://t.co/pMM1SpHqJs.
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Don't miss this downloadable @ATLASexperiment #ColoringBook. It introduces kids to the field of High-Energy #Physics, as well as the work being carried out by the ATLAS Collaboration at @CERN! (. and is available in 13 languages) . 🎨
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Researchers have used the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument to make the largest 3D map of our universe and world-leading measurements of #DarkEnergy, the mysterious cause of its accelerating expansion. @desisurvey.
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Biochemist Jennifer Doudna, @UCBerkeley professor and Berkeley Lab faculty scientist, is co-winner of the 2020 #NobelPrize in #Chemistry for “the development of a method for genome editing.” @LBNLBioSci @UCB_Chemistry @UCBerkeley @doudna_lab #CRISPRCas9
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We developed an anti-radiation-poisoning pill that could also remove residual toxic #gadolinium from #MRI patients injected with #GBCAs @bioactinide @UCBerkeley
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"Whoa, watch that tie!" How many safety violations can you spot? . We couldn't resist this blast from the past! 📸 Our founder, Ernest O. Lawrence, is setting a perfect example of what NOT to do in the lab or around equipment! . #SafetyFirst #ThrowbackThursday #ScienceHistory
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By making two atoms of element 116, Berkeley Lab scientists have shown a path to hunt for #Element120 and potentially extend the periodic table. Read the latest in @sciencemagazine:
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Quantum Information Edge, a nationwide alliance of national labs, universities, and industry launched today to advance the frontiers of quantum computing systems. @SandiaLabs
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🙌🏽🎖 CONGRATULATIONS @francesarnold on your 2018 #NobelPrize in #Chemistry 👩🏽🔬 from all of us here at Berkeley Lab! #womeninSTEM #bioenergy
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Did you feel that? We sure did! Last night's #earthquake was less than a mile from our lab. DYK, we're working to use a vast network of unused fiber optic cable buried across the country for #earthquake detection? Details » #BayArea
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Another congrats to Jennifer Doudna!! With her #NobelPrize in #Chemistry, Berkeley Lab scientists and research have now been recognized with 14 Nobel Prizes. #WomenInSTEM @LBNLBioSci #MBIB @UCBerkeley @UCB_Chemistry @NobelPrize . Learn more :
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☀️🦌 Oh deer! Warm summer days call for special shade. This guy was spotted resting under a #ShyhWang Hall walkway. On the other side of that concrete wall rests our #supercomputers. #wildlifeWednesday @ENERGY
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Researchers at our Lab have developed a new kind of heating and cooling method – one that they hope will someday help phase out refrigerants that contribute to global warming. #ClimateChange #IonocaloricCooling. @BerkeleyLabETA @ENERGY @doescience
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🥚 Running out of things to watch? Our favorite Peregrine falcons, Grinnell and Annie, are nesting atop @UCBerkeley's Campanile on four eggs. WATCH LIVE all day and all night! . Catch all the cams here 👇🏽.. @YouTube 👇🏽.
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Researchers at our 88-Inch Cyclotron have successfully made superheavy element 116 using a beam of titanium-50. This milestone sets the team up to attempt making the heaviest element yet: 120. @BerkeleyLabPSA #Element120 #Physics #SuperHeavyElements .
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"She was conscious of history, conscious of struggle, conscious of inequities. She was born with a sense of justice imprinted on her soul." – Madam @VP @KamalaHarris from her 2019 memoir, The Truths We Hold.
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📣📷 Calling all @ENERGY #nationallabs & labs around the world! Show us your #bestviewfromanationallaboratory or #bestviewfromalab. (cc: @ORNL @PNNLab)
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Celebrate #InternationalWomensDay with these #WomenInSTEM posters highlighting prominent historical & present-day inventors, astronauts, explorers and mathematicians. @ENERGY @UCBerkeley @UofCalifornia
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New footage captured by Berkeley Lab scientists reveals nanoparticle growth is directed not by difference in size, but by defects! “This is a huge milestone. We are rewriting textbook chemistry, and it’s very exciting!” -Senior Lab Scientist Haimei Zheng
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📣 Today, #POTUS Joe Biden named Berkeley Lab's Darleane C. Hoffman and Gabor A. Somorjai as recipients of the Enrico Fermi Presidential Award, one of the oldest and most prestigious #science and #technology honors bestowed by the U.S. government. 🏆🧬
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DYK that when theoretical #physicist Mary Gaillard became the first woman physics professor @UCBerkeley in 1981, she joined Berkeley Lab, too? . Learn more: . #InternationalWomensDay #WomensHistoryMonth #BerkeleyLab90 #WomenInSTEM
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Let’s reimagine #desalination. What if, rather than using fresh water once, only to throw it away, we could use it again and again and again? 👉🏽 #innovateH2O @NREL @ORNL @coschoolofmines @UTAustin #BringingScienceSolutionsToTheWorld
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CONGRATULATIONS to @francesarnold, WINNER of the 2018 @NobelPrize in #Chemistry and founding member of our @LBNLBioSci Expert Advisory Committee! #womeninSTEM #nobelprize #bioenergy
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