From writing emails to generating computer code, much of the artificial intelligence prevalent in our daily lives has succeeded by mastering one domain: text. However, this leaves a major blind spot in the physical sciences, where models depend on the high …
Kristin Persson, a Daniel M. Tellep Distinguished Professor in Materials Science and Engineering at UC Berkeley and faculty senior scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and …
Two Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) scientists have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. They are part of a cohort of 120 new …
The University of California Board of Regents today (May 5) approved Katherine Yelick as the next director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). Her appointment as director begins on July 1. Yelick is a leading computer scientist with a …
DESI has now measured cosmological data for six times as many galaxies and quasars as all previous measurements combined. The collaboration will immediately begin processing the completed dataset, with the first dark energy results from DESI’s full five- …
Measuring just under 10 feet long, the seismometer developed at Berkeley Lab’s GMF was deployed 6,995 feet underground on July 27, 2025, through a borehole at Cape Station. Situated beside the U.S. Department of Energy’s Frontier Observatory for Research …
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has announced their 2025 Fellows, including three scientists from the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). AAAS awards this lifetime honor to scientists …
The road to deploying the next flagship supercomputer at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) reached an important milestone in January with the delivery of the NERSC-10 Pilot Early Access System (EAS). Smaller than the full- …
Although dark matter makes up most of the mass in our universe, it has never been directly observed. To hunt for lighter dark matter and other rare phenomena, researchers must solve a puzzle in their supersensitive detectors: an unexpected number of low- …
Three projects led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) are among those selected as part of a $155 million Department of Energy (DOE) investment in American industrial innovation. Spanning load flexibility, data center cooling, and food …
Key Takeaways A new computer program developed at Berkeley Lab offers a faster and more accurate way to determine a protein’s structure. Known as AQuaRef, the program uses quantum-mechanical calculations and artificial intelligence to produce higher …
According to Whitelam and Casert, when the components of the computer are themselves nonlinear, it becomes possible to train a thermodynamic computer to perform nonlinear computations at specified times, regardless of its equilibrium status. This means …
The National Academy of Engineering has named two scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) to this year’s class of 130 new members and 28 international members. Election to the National Academy of …
Key Takeaways Berkeley Lab scientists developed a new way to determine atomic structures from nanocrystals previously considered unusable for crystallography. By combining 4D-STEM with computational “virtual apertures,” the team can isolate and analyze …
The tiny microchips that power modern technologies are already an impressive feat but materials research scientist Qi Zhang seeks to push the boundaries even further. As part of the Center for X-Ray Optics, powered by the Advanced Light Source at Berkeley …
While some of Berkeley Lab’s digital twins are already set to guide experiments, others are still in research and development. Researchers across disciplines are adapting methods from existing physics and energy models to unlock more powerful experiments. …
This scanning tunneling microscope image of a graphene sheet reveals that a Wigner crystal – a honeycomb arrangement of electrons, like an electron ice – has formed inside a layered structure underneath. (Image by Hongyuan Li and Shaowei Li, courtesy of …
A moving tape carries microscopic dabs of crystalized enzyme slurry, to which even tinier droplets of substrate are added via a second nozzle. The turbulence caused by the barrage of smaller droplets colliding with the larger one leads to rapid, even …
An artificial metalloenzyme based on the natural enzyme called P450 (gray structure). UC Berkeley chemists created a heme molecule (magenta) with an embedded iridium atom (red) that, in E. coli, was incorporated into P450 to execute a reaction unknown in …
Skyrmions are little vortexes or whirlpools created by the spins of electrons when magnetic fields are applied to certain magnetic materials. (Credit: Greg Stewart/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, based on numerical simulations by Sergio Montoya/UC …
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