Methane-eating bacteria are found in extreme environments such as active geothermal hot springs. (Credit: Inger Eriksen/Shutterstock) Scientists have determined the structure of a unique enzyme, produced by a species of methane-eating bacteria, that …
STEM (scanning transmission electron microscopy) image of a one-dimensional array of F4TCNQ molecules (yellow-orange) on a gate-tunable graphene device. (Credit: Berkeley Lab) Small electronic circuits power our everyday lives, from the tiny cameras in our …
Artistic interpretation of how microbial genome sequences from the GEM catalog can help fill in gaps of knowledge about the microbes that play key roles in the Earth’s microbiomes. (Credit: Zosia Rostomian/Berkeley Lab) Despite advances in sequencing …
Study authors (from left to right) Andrew K. Lau, Thomas Eng, and Deepanwita Banerjee stand in front of a two-liter bioreactor containing E. coli cells that are producing indigoidine, which causes the strong dark blue color of the liquid. This photo was …
Solar panels in a Richmond, California neighborhood. (Credit: Google Streetview) As rooftop solar prices have fallen, many households at all income levels can now save money by going solar. Nonetheless, low- and moderate-income households remain less …
A wheel-shaped muon detector is part of an ATLAS particle detector upgrade at CERN. A new study applies “unfolding,” or error-correction techniques used for particle detectors, to problems with noise in quantum computing. (Credit: Julien Marius Ordan/CERN …
This set of renderings shows the completed GRETA array (top and bottom left) and half of the completed array (right). The detector is designed to open up, with each half sliding on tracks. Samples can be placed at the center of the spherical array. The …
Sinead Griffin, a staff scientist in Berkeley Lab’s Materials Sciences Division and Molecular Foundry, has devoted much of her career to designing a new detector material that could help find “light” dark matter. (Credit: Thor Swift/Berkeley Lab) Every …
Berkeley Lab’s BELLA Center houses the BELLA petawatt laser, shown here, and a 100-terawatt-class laser. (Credit: Roy Kaltschmidt/Berkeley Lab) Note: This release was adapted from an original release prepared by the U.S. Department of Energy. View the …
This 3D rendering, created from computed tomography scans of the midsection region of the diabolical ironclad beetle, was produced with X-rays at Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source. This region, known as the medial suture, is where the two halves of the …
LZ’s central detector, pictured here during assembly, is located inside a large water tank on the 4850 Level of Sanford Lab. LZ will search for theorized dark matter particles known as WIMPs. (Credit: Nick Hubbard/Sanford Lab) Crews working on the largest …
Kevin Lesko, a spokesperson for the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) dark matter search experiment, discusses dark matter and LZ during a recent visit to Sanford Lab. (Credit: Video production by Marilyn Sargent/Berkeley Lab; Q&A video footage filmed by Matt Kapust/ …
By Natalie Pawelski One hundred and four U.S. companies, schools, governments, and institutions are taking their building energy savings to a new level with the Department of Energy’s Smart Energy Analytics Campaign, a four-year initiative funded through …
Univ. of Tennessee undergrad Elliot Perryman (on right) worked with Biosciences staff scientist Peter Zwart during his fall 2019 Berkeley Lab Undergraduate Research (BLUR) internship. (Credit: Thor Swift/Berkeley Lab) Tenacity comes naturally to a guy who …
Noël Bakhtian will be the director of Berkeley Lab’s new Energy Storage Center. (Credit: Idaho National Laboratory) The Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has appointed Noël Bakhtian, previously a senior policy …
A display of a candidate Higgs boson event at CERN’s ATLAS experiment in which a Higgs boson decays into two muons. The muons appear as red tracks in this rendering. (Credit: ATLAS collaboration) Since the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012 based on data …
A microscopy image of diatoms (single-celled algae) and other aquatic microorganisms. (Credit: Kichigin/Shutterstock) The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation is supporting the development of a unique microscopy concept pioneered by researchers at Lawrence …
Feature Story By Clarissa Bhargava • October 9, 2020 VIDEO: Molecular Foundry Director Kristin Persson celebrates National Nanotechnology Day with students. (Credit: Marilyn Chung/Berkeley Lab) Happy National Nanotechnology Day! Nanotechnology is any …
Berkeley Lab scientist Adam Weber (left) and postdoc Jessica Luo look at experimental data for membrane conductivity in a fuel cell fabrication lab. (Credit: Marilyn Chung/Berkeley Lab) Hydrogen fuel cells are on the rise: Germany has rolled out hydrogen- …
A composite image of the enzyme lactase showing how cryo-EM’s resolution has improved dramatically in recent years. Older images to the left, more recent to the right. (Credit: Veronica Falconieri/National Cancer Institute) We’ve all seen that moment in a …
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