An exotic magnetic device developed by researchers at Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley could further miniaturize computing devices and personal electronics without loss of performance. Scale shown above is in micrometers (um); 10 um is equivalent to 10 …
3D images of platinum particles between 2-3 nm in diameter shown rotating in liquid under an electron microscope. Each nanoparticle has approximately 600 atoms. White spheres indicate the position of each atom in a nanoparticle. (Courtesy of IBS) ] Since …
Sorghum, shown here at the Agronomy Field Headquarters in Davis, California, is a common bioenergy crop and was used in this study. (Credit: Marilyn Sargent /Berkeley Lab) Biofuels are an important part of the broader strategy to replace petroleum-based …
Advanced Biofuels and Bioproducts Process Development Unit (ABPDU) Scientists around the world are joining together to study the coronavirus known as SARS-CoV-2 and to expedite the development of possible vaccines and treatments to prevent its infectious …
Cyber Liability Engineer monitors NERSC supercomputers from the facility’s control room at Berkeley Lab. (Photo by Marilyn Chung, Berkeley Lab) While people around the world hunker down in their homes to try to slow the advance of the COVID-19 virus and …
Climate variability could create a gap between total energy generation and demand – a situation that could lead to blackouts. (Credit: iStock/Tomwang112) Extreme weather events – such as severe drought, storms, and heat waves – have been forecast to become …
Mina J. Bissell. (Credit: Marilyn Sargent/Berkeley Lab) Mina Bissell, distinguished senior scientist at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), is one of five recipients of the 2020 Canada Gairdner International …
Berkeley Lab is working to address barriers to more widespread deployment of offshore wind in California, where floating wind turbines could be a viable option. (Credit: SarahGower/iStock) Fiber optic cables, it turns out, can be incredibly useful …
In this composite image, theorized particles of decaying dark matter should produce a spherical halo of X-ray emission – represented here as colorized matter concentrated around the center of the Milky Way (in black and white) – that could be detectable …
A view of the Mayall Telescope (tallest structure) and the Kitt Peak National Observatory site near Tucson, Arizona. The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument is housed within the Mayall dome. (Credit: Marilyn Sargent/Berkeley Lab) It’s one thing to design, …
Computer simulation of an anthrax PA63 protein binding to loopoids (purple). The base nanosheet is shown in green. (Credit: Ryan Spencer and Ron Zuckermann/Berkeley Lab). A research team led by Berkeley Lab has developed a technique that could accelerate …
A movie of lithium ions quickly moving along “easy pathways” in intermediate configurations of LTO (lithium titanate). (Credit: Brookhaven National Laboratory) Berkeley Lab researchers, working with a team at Brookhaven National Laboratory, have made a key …
The 3D structure of the activated toxin seen in two views (rotated 180 degrees), overlaid on an image of mosquito larvae. (Credit: Nicholas Sauter/Berkeley Lab and Napat/Shutterstock) Many of the chemicals used to deter or eliminate disease-carrying …
The 2020 LHC Olympics challenged teams to develop a machine learning code to find a hidden signal in particle-collision data. This image shows particle-collision data captured by the ATLAS detector at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider. (Credit: CERN) In …
Heinz Frei (right) talks about the potential renewable energy technology he developed with Georgios Katsoukis (center) and Won Jun Jo (left), who is holding a small piece of the team’s solar fuel tile material. (Credit: Marilyn Sargent/Berkeley Lab) …
This video highlights magnet-making efforts to support the High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider upgrade at CERN in Europe. Three U.S. Department of Energy national labs – Berkeley Lab, Fermilab, and Brookhaven – are building superconducting magnets that …
Can scientists understand human behavior enough to figure out what drives the choices you make? In fact, it’s called “decision science,” and it’s something that Anna Spurlock, a behavioral economist with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab …
Just over 15 years since a couple of researchers in the U.K. used adhesive tape to isolate single atomic layers of carbon, known as graphene, from a chunk of graphite, their Nobel Prize-winning discovery has fueled a revolution in ultrathin materials R…
(Credit: Marina Keremkhanova/Shutterstock) Why do some people feel like they need three cups of coffee just to get through the day when others are happy with only one? Why do some people abstain entirely? New research suggests that our intake of coffee – …
An optical image of the graphene device on a silicon dioxide/silicon chip. Shining metal wires are connected to gold electrodes for electrical measurement. (Credit: Guorui Chen/Berkeley Lab) Ever since graphene’s discovery in 2004, scientists have looked …
