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The San Francisco Bay area has long been a hub for cutting-edge technologies. Now it is one of the nation's leaders in clean-energy research. Corinna Wu reports.

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Wu, C. Bay watch. Nature 462, 814–815 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/nj7274-814a

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