Groundbreaking observations could help develop better, more efficient materials for electronics and alternative energy

However, it would take a collaborative, interdisciplinary, multi-scalar effort to get there, expert warns.

JPL is working at developing orbiting solar panels to bring a reliable source of electricity to those in developing countries

Microbiologists unravel relationship among plants, mycorrhizal fungi

Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley researchers control a promising new way to encode electrons

Findings could help inform the design and engineering of new nanotechnologies to improve crop yields and biomass production

“Hopefully, our work will serve as a wake-up call.”

New carbon capture membrane boasts CO2 highways

Berkeley researchers' Wave Carpet aims to compete with commercial energy converters

Researchers find that spoiled and damaged tomatoes left over from harvest can be a particularly powerful source of energy

Armed with information about what electrons are doing inside the material, researchers believe they can make improvements to solar cells

The high induction of a specific protein suggests to scientists that it could be playing an important biological role in controlling the expression of genes inside algae cells.