Researchers employed 20 kilometers (pink) of a 51-kilometer undersea fiber-optic cable, normally used to communicate with an off-shore science node (MARS, Monterey Accelerated Research System), as a seismic array to study the fault zones under Monterey Bay …
Infrared light is focused onto the sharp metallic tip of an atomic force microscope, enabling the acquisition of vibrational spectra from a graphene-liquid interface. (Credit: Artem Baskin, Jonathon Larson/Berkeley Lab) How a liquid interacts with the …
A unique neural network architecture called mmvec (microbe-metabolite vectors) has made it possible to accurately infer the interactions between the microbes that are present in a community and the metabolites they produce. (Credit: iStock/spawns) …
Six scientists from the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have been named Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Election as a AAAS Fellow is an honor bestowed upon AAAS members …
News Release By Kiran Julin • November 25, 2019 Following an international search, Robert Kostecki has been appointed director of the Energy Storage and Distributed Resources (ESDR) Division in the Energy Technologies Area (ETA) at the Department of Energy …
Erika Suzuki Erika Suzuki of the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), tied for first place in a September competition that featured technology pitches to an audience that included tech-transfer experts and investors …
Scanning tunneling microscopy image of an oxygen substituting sulfur (left) and sulfur vacancy (right) in tungsten disulfide. (Credit: Berkeley Lab) Like any material, atomically thin, 2D semiconductors known as TMDs or transition metal dichalcogenides are …
Katherine Yelick has been honored by HPCwire as their Editor’s Choice for Outstanding Leadership in high-performance computing (HPC). (Photo courtesy of Berkeley Lab Computing Sciences) Katherine Yelick, the associate laboratory director for Computing …
Berkeley Lab climate scientists studied how the Hadley cell, a tropical air flow closely linked to monsoons, will change as the climate warms. (Credit: iStockphoto) More than a billion people in Asia depend on seasonal monsoons for their water needs. The …
Two researchers from Cairo University in Egypt brought 32 bone samples and two soil samples to study using X-ray and infrared light-based techniques at Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source (ALS). This video shows the Cairo University and ALS scientists at …
Cyberforce competitors and support staff from the 2018 event at Berkeley Lab. (credit: Paul Mueller) Five teams of college students will square off at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) on Nov. 16 as …
This image shows the profile of an electron beam at Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source synchrotron, represented as pixels measured by a charged coupled device (CCD) sensor. When stabilized by a machine-learning algorithm, the beam has a horizontal size …
Staff Scientist Brett Helms (right) and Miranda Baran (graduate student researcher) of Berkeley Lab’s Molecular Foundry have developed AquaPIM, an affordable alternative to state-of-the-art battery membranes for flow batteries. (Credit: Marilyn Sargent/ …
Ronald Zuckermann (left) and Michael Connolly hold a model of a protein in a beta sheet arrangement. Aggregates of proteins misfolded into this shape are the disease-causing agents in numerous fatal neurodegenerative diseases. The team’s peptoid-coated …
The latest edition of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s (Berkeley Lab’s) annual Tracking the Sun report finds that prices for distributed solar power systems continued to fall in 2018, that industry practices continued to evolve, and that systems are …
This news release is adapted from a release by UC Davis. A new study by Berkeley Lab and UC Davis finds 85% of California classrooms did not have sufficient ventilation. (Credit: iStock) Roughly 85% of recently installed HVAC systems in K-12 classrooms …
By Jessica Scully Researchers use electron microscopy to produce high-resolution images at the atomic scale of everything from composite nanomaterials to single proteins. The technology provides invaluable information on the texture, chemistry, and …
(Top figure) Selected electron beam diffraction patterns that were used to form the molecular structure shown at the bottom. (Bottom figure) 4D-STEM map traces the molecular structure of a small-molecule thin film. (Credit: Colin Ophus/Berkeley Lab) We can …
Berkeley Lab researcher Sherry Li (Credit: Roy Kaltschmidt/Berkeley Lab) Urban traffic roughly follows a periodic pattern associated with the typical “9 to 5” work schedule. However, when an accident happens, traffic patterns are disrupted. Designing …
Illustration of sulfur dioxide captured within the MFM-170 material, as revealed by experiments at Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source. (Credit: Gemma Smith/Manchester University) An international team has developed a robust material that can selectively …
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