Scientists at Berkeley Lab’s Molecular Foundry have made a biocompatible polymer that has potential use in therapies that use near-infrared light to combat antibacterial-resistant infections and cancer. (Credit: Sirirat/Shutterstock.com) Photothermal …
Display of a simulated High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) particle collision event in an upgraded ATLAS detector. The event has an average of 200 collisions per particle bunch crossing. (Credit: ATLAS Collaboration/CERN) Giant-scale physics …
Lucy Linder at CERN. (Courtesy of Lucy Linder) Lucy Linder, who is pursuing a doctorate at the College of Engineering and Architecture of Fribourg in Switzerland, grew up in the shadow of nearby CERN, the largest high-energy physics laboratory in the world …
Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internship program participant Eric Rohm, left, and mentor Heather Gray. (Credit: Thor Swift/Berkeley Lab) If you study the detector readout shortly after a particle collision at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC), “It …
Amitabh Yadav There wasn’t as much buzz about the particle physics applications of quantum computing when Amitabh Yadav began working on his master’s thesis in the field at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands a couple of years ago, he …
Eric Seaborg (Credit C-SPAN) Eric Seaborg, a writer and author, outdoorsman and environmentalist, has a love for hiking that he shared with his father, the late chemist and Nobel laureate Glenn Seaborg (1912-1999) who blazed trails in element and isotope …
Next week, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) is hosting the InnovationXLab Biomanufacturing Summit: An exclusive event aimed at showcasing how U.S. industry can leverage the world-leading bioscience assets and capabilities of the …
Footnotes: Cover photo depicts Pep Fujas, freeskiing pioneer and VP of Marketing and Product at WNDR Alpine, using the company's skis in the Wasatch Range, Utah. (Credit: Adam Clark, @acpictures)
Researchers work on the assembly of the CUORE experiment before it begins taking data. (Credit: CUORE Collaboration) In an underground laboratory deep beneath a mountain in Central Italy, an array of crystals, chilled to within a hair of absolute zero – …
This cutaway rendering of the Advanced Light Source dome shows the layout of three electron-accelerating rings. A new approval step in the ALS Upgrade project will allow the installation of the middle ring, known as the accumulator ring. (Credit: Matthaeus …
Evaporation ponds, or settling ponds, are used in many industries, such as this paper mill, to manage wastewater. (Credit: iStock/PhilAugustavo) Evaporation ponds, which are commonly used in many industries to manage wastewater, can span acres, occupying …
Science Snapshots • December 23, 2019 In this cross-sectional map of the rod-shaped crystals that make up human tooth enamel, different colors indicate different crystal orientations. (Credit: Pupa Gilbert/University of Wisconsin) Adult teeth can last a …
Illustration of peptoid combinations. Each of the metal-binding monomers is represented as a red or blue “claw.” Credit: Rebecca Abergel/Berkeley Lab A team of scientists led by Berkeley Lab has developed a library of artificial proteins or “peptoids” that …
A structural map of KRAS(G12C), showing the AMG 510 molecule in the binding pocket. Amgen is a Participating Research Team member of the Berkeley Center for Structural Biology (BCSB), which maintains and operates five of the ALS beamlines. (Credit: Amgen …
‘Twas a night in St Petersburg, when all through the house Not a beaker was stirring, and the burners were doused. The acids and bases were corked up with care, Awaiting tomorrow’s experiments in pristine glassware. The lab assistants were nestled all …
A nationwide alliance of national labs, universities, and industry launched today to advance the frontiers of quantum computing systems designed to solve urgent scientific challenges and maintain U.S. leadership in next-generation information technology …
The breadth of science conducted by researchers at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) is vast, spanning from fundamental questions about the nature of the universe to solutions for saving energy in our homes and …
At left, natural diamonds glow under ultraviolet light owing to their various nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers. At right, a schematic depicting the diamond anvils in action, with NV centers in the bottom anvil. The NV sensors glow a brilliant shade of red …
Artist’s illustration of two merging neutron stars. The rippling space-time grid represents gravitational waves that travel out from the collision, while the narrow beams show the bursts of gamma rays that are shot out just seconds after the gravitational …
Berkeley Lab battery researcher Gerbrand Ceder (Credit: Roy Kaltschmidt/Berkeley Lab) Lithium ion is probably the most advanced technology available for the packs of rechargeable batteries you’ll buy this holiday season. The batteries also power the vast …
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