• Congress accelerates work on long-awaited light and neutron source upgrades
• With toxin, bacteria prove old dogs can learn new tricks
• Creating more sustainable water systems by taking lessons from the energy industry
• Scientists present new clues to cut through the mystery of Titan’s atmospheric haze
• Lab connections to 2018 Nobel Prize winners
• To change a catalyst’s electrochemical properties, just “shuffle”
• Scenes from ‘A New Light for Berkeley Lab’ celebration

• Better water purification methods are aim of new research center
• Berkeley Lab to push quantum information frontiers with new programs in computing, physics, materials, and chemistry
• X-rays uncover a hidden property that leads to failure in a lithium-ion battery material
• A new light for Berkeley Lab: The next 25 years at the Advanced Light Source
• Fluorescence activating protein made from scratch
• All aboard the Jungle Express!
• Cracking the code to soot formation
• NASA-funded rocket to view sun with x-ray vision

• Powerful beams of infrared light could probe cells, diagnose diseases
• Director’s Achievement Awards announced
• High-performance computing enables record-breaking ptychographic imaging at the ALS
• Oxygen release and oxygen redox
• Purdue students tour ALS
• Facebook Live event features science at the Advanced Light Source
• 2018 Berkeley Lab Physics Photowalk winners announced

• A night at the beamline
• Splitting water: Nanoscale imaging yields key insights

• Alzheimer’s breakthrough: brain metals that may drive disease progression revealed
• Wet aluminum hydroxide and oxyhydroxide particles release hydrogen when irradiated
• Video of conversation between NPR’s Joe Palca and Geri Richmond now available
• From moon rocks to space dust: Berkeley Lab’s extraterrestrial research
• Experiments trace interstellar dust back to solar system’s formation
• Non-crystal clarity: Scientists find ordered magnetic patterns in disordered magnetic material
• Jennifer Doudna shares 2018 Kavli Prize in Nanoscience
• Steve Kevan named next director of Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source
• Berkeley Lab paves the way for real-time ptychographic data streaming
• New algorithm enhances ptychographic image reconstruction

• • Ramrod MOF resembles Alhambra mosaic
  • Dozens of photographers attend Berkeley Lab’s Physics Photowalk
  • Metallic drivers of Alzheimer’s disease
  • CFN Scientist Spotlight: Ashley Head brings surface studies out of the realm of physics into chemistry
  • Students get schooled in x-rays at the Advanced Light Source
  • Argonne scientist wins international award for magnetism research
  • X-ray scientists create tiny, super-thin sheets of flowing water that shimmer like soap bubbles

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• High-res Honeycrisp
• Tamura’s ichthyosaur illustration used in news about fossil discovery
• Form damages function and magnetism suffers
• Finding order in disorder demonstrates a new state of matter
• Brittlestar uses Mg-rich nanoparticles to forge its calcite armor
• Scientists develop sugar-coated nanosheets to selectively target pathogens
• Secretary of Energy Rick Perry visits Berkeley Lab

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• COSMIC impact: Next-gen x-ray microscopy platform now operational
• Doudna featured on CBS ‘Sunday Morning’ program
• Physicists discover new quantum electronic material
• Diamonds from the deep: study suggests water may exist in earth’s lower mantle
• A catalyst for clean energy
• Antigen study supports new approach to vaccine for respiratory syncytial virus
• Scientists retrace steps that created the building blocks of life
• Mapping nanoscale chemical reactions inside batteries in 3-D
• Director’s message on advances in building next-gen science facilities
• Scientists confirm century-old speculation on the chemistry of a high-performance battery

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• In a first, tiny diamond anvils trigger chemical reactions by squeezing
• William Chueh wins the MRS 2018 Outstanding Young Investigator Award
• Using nature’s blueprint for sustainable indigo dyeing process
• Instagram takeover: UCSF Dentistry at Beamline 8.3.2
• Mars rocks
• The importance of the weak
• OHSU research provides new insight about antidepressants

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• Diabetes makes bones less bendable, more prone to fracture
• X-ray experiments suggest high tunability of 2-D material
• It all starts with a ‘spark’: Berkeley Lab delivers injector that will drive x-ray laser upgrade
• Scientists discover material ideal for smart photovoltaic windows
• Let the good tubes roll
• Doudna honored by National Academy of Sciences
• Coupling experiments to theory to build a better battery
• X-rays reveal ‘handedness’ in swirling electric vortices
• Ingredients for life revealed in meteorites that fell to earth
• Something in the air: Synchrotron study reveals oxygen’s influence on the chemistry that surrounds us

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