The Top Ten Stories of 2008

• President-elect Obama Picks Berkeley Lab Director Steve Chu for Energy Secretary
• Joint BioEnergy Institute is Officially Dedicated
• IMPACTS: Investigating Abrupt Climate Changes
• Bold Traveler’s Journey Toward the Center of the Earth
• Scientists Store and Retrieve Data Inside an Atom
• Exploring Energy-efficient Computing
• BELLA: The Next Stage in Laser Wakefield Acceleration
• A Protein that Triggers Aggressive Breast Cancer
• New DNA Microarray Technique Could Revolutionize Diagnostics
• Nanoscale Chemistry for Pollution Control and Fuel Cell Technologies