In a project led by Arva Intelligence, Berkeley Lab scientists will monitor carbon emissions and other indicators at five commercial farms in California and Arkansas. (Credit: Jay McEntire/Arva Intelligence) Farmers have enough worries – between bad …
Researchers from Berkeley Lab and 20 other institutions have found that land use and atmospheric changes are altering forest structure around the world, resulting in fewer of the mature trees that are better at storing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere …
This video contains animations showing how the complex components of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, installed on the Mayall Telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory near Tucson, Arizona, work together. Click on the “CC” icon to view captions …
Antineutrino detectors are submersed in liquid at the Daya Bay experiment, as seen during the final phase of construction in August 2012. (Credit: Roy Kaltschmidt/Berkeley Lab) Experiment: Daya Bay reactor neutrino experiment About: The Daya Bay reactor …
A photo illustration showing magnified virus particles in droplets. (Credit: pxfuel.com) Laser and biology experts at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) are working together to develop a platform and experiments to study the structure and …
A photomultiplier tube array that is part of the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, South Dakota. The photomultiplier tubes are designed to detect signals produced by dark matter particle interactions. (Credit: …
Robert Besuner, DESI project manager and a Berkeley Lab affiliate who is an engineer at UC Berkeley’s Space Sciences Laboratory, has found ways to contribute to the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) project – which is on a mountaintop near Tucson …
Artistic illustration of a carbon nanotube COVID-19 detector. (Courtesy of: Zettl Research Group/Berkeley Lab) A technology spun from carbon nanotube sensors discovered 20 years ago by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) scientists could …
Berkeley Lab researchers have launched a project to determine if the novel coronavirus might be seasonal, waning in summer months and resurging in fall and winter. (Credit: Ivan Marc/Shutterstock) One of the many unanswered scientific questions about COVID …
This transmission electron microscope image shows SARS-CoV-2 – the virus that causes COVID-19 – isolated from a patient in the U.S. The protrusions visible on the outside are the spike proteins that the virus particles use to fuse with and gain entry to …
Berkeley Lab staff (from left) David Richardson, Rosanne Boudreau, and James Singzon are making it possible for scientists to conduct research related to COVID-19. (Credit: Berkeley Lab) David Richardson’s job is literally to make sure the light stays on. …
This Hubble Space Telescope image shows a gravitational lens (center) that was first identified as a lens candidate with the assistance of a neural network that processed ground-based space images. The lens is artificially colorized and circled in this …
Illustration of plasmon waves created by an ultrafast laser coupled to an atomic force microscopy tip. The plasmon waves are shown as concentric red and blue rings moving slowly across an atomically thin layer of tantalum disulfide. (Felipe da Jornada/ …
FLEXLAB(R), the world’s most advanced building simulator and testbed, will be used to simulate office and school heating, ventilation, and air conditioning configurations. (Credit: Berkeley Lab) As society prepares to reopen indoor spaces and ease back …
Laura Marini, a postdoctoral researcher at UC Berkeley and a Berkeley Lab affiliate who serves as a run coordinator for the underground CUORE experiment, shares her experiences of working on CUORE and living near Gran Sasso during the COVID-19 pandemic. ( …
Materials Project Director Kristin Persson. (Credit: Roy Kaltschmidt/Berkeley Lab) Kristin Persson is at the helm of a materials revolution. Since 2011, she has led the Materials Project, an open-access online database that virtually delivers the largest …
This image was produced by a simulation showing the evolution of dark matter in the universe. (Credit: Milennium-II Simulation) Dark matter has so far defied every type of detector designed to find it. Because of its huge gravitational footprint in space, …
James Hurley, left, and F. Dean Toste. (Credit: UC Berkeley) Two Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) scientists have been elected into the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements …
Two Berkeley Lab scientists and a visiting scientist are among the newest elected members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences – a 240-year-old honorary society that recognizes accomplished scholars, scientists and artists in academia, the …
Nathan Johnson/PNNL This release also appears on the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory news site —By Melissae Fellet A new study is among the first to trace the molecular connections between genetics, the gut microbiome, and memory in a mouse model …
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