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 …
Ramamoorthy Ramesh has been elected as a foreign member of the Royal Society. Ramamoorthy Ramesh, senior faculty scientist in the Materials Sciences Division of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and …
Berkeley Lab researchers (clockwise from top left) Kristin Persson, John Dagdelen, Gerbrand Ceder, and Amalie Trewartha led development of COVIDScholar, a text-mining tool for COVID-19-related scientific literature. (Credit: Berkeley Lab) A team of …
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) is part of a multi-laboratory working group that recently received DOE Office of Science funding under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) …
Illustration of a charging battery. (Credit: MarySan/Shutterstock.com) From next-gen smartphones to longer-range electric cars and an improved power grid, better batteries are driving tech innovation. And to push batteries beyond their present-day …
The domed Advanced Light Source (ALS) building at Berkeley Lab, and the nearby UC Berkeley campus, are visible in this drone photo taken in March 2020. The ALS has reopened to carry out COVID-19-related experiments. (Credit: Thor Swift, Marilyn Sargent/ …
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 …
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