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Big data, meet real-time science! AI and automation at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory are turning massive datasets into instant insights, from streaming microscope data to the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC)’s Perlmutter supercomputer, to AI-powered traffic prediction at our Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) for global collaboration. Check out how AI is speeding up discovery ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/dwjhwXAB

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://lnkd.in/eNCcM9iB Quantum Systems Accelerator

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. ⚛️

How do you make discovery happen faster? At Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, we’re combining AI, automation, and advanced data systems to accelerate breakthroughs across energy, materials, and physics. This integrated approach is strengthening America’s scientific enterprise, helping researchers move from idea to insight faster than ever.

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 ⬇️

"This advance was made possible by the Berkeley Lab Laser Accelerator (BELLA) Center, which is advancing discovery science as well as applications in energy, medicine, and national security." – Berkeley Lab ATAP Division Director Cameron Geddes

Congratulations to former Foundry Director Omar Yaghi for winning the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his contribution to creating metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) - porous structures that are widely used throughout the Foundry community today!

The University of California, Berkeley's Omar Yaghi has been awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for pioneering reticular chemistry and creating metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) — crystalline structures with enormous internal surface areas that changed how scientists design materials. Yaghi served as Director of the Molecular Foundry at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory from 2012 to 2013 and is currently an affiliate in the Lab’s Materials Sciences Division. Today, scientists at Berkeley Lab, a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science national lab, continue advancing MOF research, studying how molecular frameworks form, interact, and transform to drive new discoveries. 🎉Congratulations to Dr. Yaghi and to the global scientific community building on this remarkable field! Details: https://lnkd.in/gkydTERd Advanced Light Source University of California The Nobel Prize U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)

🏅Former Berkeley Lab scientist John Clarke has been awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics “for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit.” Clarke, a former faculty senior scientist in Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s Materials Sciences Division and emeritus professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley, shares the prize with Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis. “This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics has provided opportunities for developing the next generation of quantum technology, including quantum cryptography, quantum computers, and quantum sensors,” The Nobel Prize committee noted. “John Clarke was a leading faculty scientist at Berkeley Lab for many years, supported by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Basic Energy Sciences program. This is great news.” - Berkeley Lab Director Michael Witherell Clarke’s work on superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs) laid the foundation for modern quantum technologies, from biosensors to quantum computing. 🧠 This award brings the total number of Nobel Prizes associated with Berkeley Lab scientists to 17. Details: https://lnkd.in/gCydBCiW 📷 Image 1: Digital composite of John Clarke posing next to a SQUID detector in 2010. (Credit: Roy Kaltschmidt/Berkeley Lab) 📷 Image 2: John Clarke with student Andy Miklieh (Credit: Roy Kaltschmidt/Berkeley Lab) 📷 Image 3: SQUID Magnetic Resonance Imaging System (MRI); Klaus Schlenga, John Clarke, at Birge Hall, B-275 at UCB campus. (Credit: Roy Kaltschmidt/Berkeley Lab) 📷 Image 4: John Clarke, a former Berkeley Lab scientist, has been awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics. (Credit: UC Berkeley) 📷 Image 5: John Clarkes' students, Theresa Ho and Cagliyan Kurdak with refigeration device. (Credit: Roy Kaltschmidt/Berkeley Lab) UC Santa Barbara University of California Yale University The Royal Society AAAS American Physical Society Institute of Physics

We're sharpening the “map” of nuclear matter. The STAR collaboration has reported its most precise data yet in the search for a nuclear-matter “critical point,” a landmark on the phase diagram where quarks and gluons change behavior. Why it matters: tighter tests of theory and clearer guidance for future experiments. “We’re pushing both experiment and theory because we want to understand atoms and our early universe at a really fundamental level.” — Xin Dong, Senior Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Berkeley Lab scientists helped lead the analysis with partners at Brookhaven National Laboratory (RHIC), with data processing supported by the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC). 🔗 Full story: https://lnkd.in/gsh3XCgs