Science Snapshots By Emily Scott • October 10, 2019 Berkeley Lab scientists Ning Sun (left) and Jipeng Yan, co-authors of a new study on converting waste to biofuel precursors, at the Advanced Biofuels and Bioproducts Process Development Unit. (Credit: …
Research by the DOE Watershed Function SFA project team takes place year-round in a research area along the East River catchment near the Upper Colorado River headwaters. One of the busiest times for sampling is during peak snow. (Photo courtesy Watershed …
Polly Arnold, Berkeley Lab Chemical Sciences Division Director (Photo courtesy of Polly Arnold) Prominent heavy-element chemist Polly Arnold has been elected a member of Academia Europaea. Her research focuses on advancing our understanding of the bonding …
The National Alliance for Water Innovation, which is led by the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), has been awarded a five-year, $100-million Energy-Water Desalination Hub by DOE (pending appropriations) to address …
Berkeley Lab researchers have been assembling components for an upgrade of the ALICE particle collider experiment’s detector array at CERN laboratory. Learn about their work and how it could help to unravel the inner workings of an exotic state of matter …
Anticipated FABRIC topology at the end of construction. The National Science Foundation (NSF) is funding a collaborative effort to create a nationwide research infrastructure that will enable the computer science and networking community to develop and …
A diagram of the layout and major features of the KATRIN experimental facility at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. (Credit: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) Note: This press release was adapted from an original release published by the University …
Rebecca Abergel leads the BioActinide Chemistry Group in Berkeley Lab’s Chemical Sciences Division. (Credit: Marilyn Chung/Berkeley Lab) When chemist Rebecca Abergel and her team at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ( …
Science Snapshots By Aliyah Kovner • September 12, 2019 The team’s electrochemical cell for observing solar fuel-generating catalysts (yellow device), set up at an x-ray beamline at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource. (Credit: Walter Drisdell/ …
Science Snapshots By Aliyah Kovner • September 12, 2019 The findings came from an analysis of 1,773 human-associated metagenomes sampled from four different body sites. (Credit: Tsvetkov Maxim/Shutterstock) A study aimed at identifying and examining the …
A Pretomanid pill. The drug was developed by the nonprofit TB Alliance. (Credit: TB Alliance) The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a new antibiotic that, in combination with two existing antibiotics, can tackle one of the most formidable and …
(Credit: Realstock/Shutterstock) A class of alternative tobacco product called heat-not-burn is quickly gaining in popularity across the globe. The product manufacturers claim that these battery-operated devices produce a “clean,” nicotine-laden vapor that …
Maria Zurek, right, speaks during a discussion panel at the Linda Nobel Laureates Meeting. Panel moderator Alaina Levine is pictured at left. (Credit: Julia Nimke/Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings) Maria Żurek, a postdoctoral researcher in the Nuclear …
Berkeley Lab researchers built a numerical model of the Cosumnes River watershed, extending from the Sierra Nevada mountains to the Central Valley, to study post-wildfire changes to the hydrologic cycle. (Credit: Berkeley Lab) In recent years, wildfires in …
This composite image shows an illustration of a carbon-rich red giant star (middle) warming an exoplanet (bottom left) and an overlay of a newly found pathway that could enable complex carbons to form near these stars. (Credits: ESO/L. Calçada; Berkeley …
(Credit: iStock/piranka, Berkeley Lab) Watching paint dry may seem like a boring hobby, but understanding what happens after the paint dries can be key in preserving precious works of art. The formation of metal soaps in artwork composed with oil paints …
Think summertime and the mind usually wanders to warm thoughts of sand, sunscreen, and fireworks. But increasingly summertime fun is being interrupted by algal blooms. From the Atlantic seaboard to the Gulf of Mexico, from the Great Lakes to the Pacific …
This video and accompanying article highlight the decades of discoveries, achievements and progress in particle accelerator R&D at Berkeley Lab. Lab accelerators have enabled new explorations of the atomic nucleus; the production and discovery of new …
Alaskan boreal forest (Credit: Scott Rupp, University of Alaska Fairbanks) This summer, Alaska has experienced record high temperatures and devastating wildfires. If such events become more frequent, how might that impact our northernmost forests? A team …
News Release By Christina Procopiou • August 20, 2019 View from the top of a measurement tower, where researchers monitor critical forest canopy processes such as photosynthesis, plant water fluxes, leaf characteristics, and growth. (Credit: Joao M. Rosa, …
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