The Advanced Photoinjector EXperiment (APEX) and test beamline at Berkeley Lab, pictured here in 2016, served as a prototype for the LCLS-II X-ray laser upgrade project. (Credit: Roy Kaltschmidt/Berkeley Lab) The successful test of the LCLS-II electron gun …
A new technique developed by researchers at Berkeley Lab, in collaboration with Dow and Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands, is providing atomic-resolution details about magnesium chloride, a material involved in the production of the …
Junsong Lin, an affiliate in Berkeley Lab’s Physics Division and UC Berkeley postdoctoral researcher, holds components of a low-mass dark matter detector that is now in development. (Credit: Marilyn Chung/Berkeley Lab) The search for dark matter is …
At Gillin’s Beach in the Mahaulepu watershed, signs were frequently posted warning beach goers not to swim. However, the team found no evidence of any contamination during an entire year year of monitoring. (Credit: Eric Dubinsky/Berkeley Lab) One of the …
The actinides make up the bottom row of the periodic table. (Elements outlined in black were discovered at Berkeley Lab.) (Credit: Berkeley Lab) The actinides – those chemical elements on the bottom row of the periodic table – are used in applications …
Berkeley Lab scientists (from left) Deborah Agarwal, Juliane Mueller, Reetik Sahu, Bhavna Arora, and Charuleka Varadharajan are developing a computational tool for smarter groundwater management. (Credit: Marilyn Chung/Berkeley Lab) The overpumping of …
Image of the first beam of photoelectrons for a next-generation LCLS-II X-ray laser housed at SLAC. Berkeley Lab designed and built the electron gun supplying the laser’s electrons. (Credit: SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory) This press release was …
The Norman Wastewater Reclamation Facility (Courtesy University of Oklahoma) Wastewater is treated by an activated sludge process in municipal wastewater treatment plants and returned to the environment for use. This treatment process has been used for …
Scientists discover a surprising first step in the chemical transformation of carbon dioxide using a silver catalyst. (Credit: Berkeley Lab) Fossil fuels are the lifeblood of modern societies, but their increased use releases carbon dioxide, a climate- …
A sample of the mineral lepidolite, a key source of lithium, mined in Finland. (Credit: iStock/ekakoskinen) Using cutting-edge theoretical calculations performed at NERSC, researchers at Berkeley Lab’s Molecular Foundry have predicted fascinating new …
Cyclotron Road Cohort Five pictured left to right: Ryan Pearson, Cara Beasley, Jesse Adams, Matthew Ryan, J Provine, Christina Boville, Cody Finke, Adrian Albert, Avish Kosari, Armin Jam, Parker Gould, Mitchell Hsing, Amir Atabaki. Not pictured: Raj Bhakta …
Berkeley Lab’s new project to identify and mitigate methane “super emitters” will focus on the area in the white polygon. The smaller colored polygons show the diversity of methane emission sources and infrastructure in the area, with oil and gas fields in …
In recognition of the International Day of Light (@IDL2019) on May 16, the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) is highlighting how scientists use light in laboratory experiments. From nanolasers and X-ray beams to …
Researcher Christine Shulse tends to Arabidopsis plants in a lab at the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI). (Photo credit: Marilyn Chung/Berkeley Lab) An open-source RNA analysis platform has been successfully used on plant cells for the first time – an …
Researchers collected and studied beach sands from locations near Hiroshima including Japan’s Miyajima Island, home to this torii gate, which at high tide is surrounded by water. The torii and associated Itsukushima Shinto Shrine, near the city of …
Just as a wine glass distorts an image showing temperature fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background in this photo illustration, large objects like galaxy clusters and galaxies can similarly distort this light to produce lensing effects. (Credit: …
Credit: iStock/Mukhina1 Light yet sturdy, plastic is great – until you no longer need it. Because plastics contain various additives, like dyes, fillers, or flame retardants, very few plastics can be recycled without loss in performance or aesthetics. Even …
The PDSF computer cluster in 2003. (Credit: Berkeley lab) Decades before “big data” and “the cloud” were a part of our everyday lives and conversations, a custom computer cluster based at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ( …
New NAS members (from left to right) Roger Falcone, Pamela Ronald, Uros Seljack, and Omar Yaghi. (Credit: Berkeley Lab/UC Berkeley) Four Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) scientists have been elected into the National Academy of Sciences …
Scientists have invented a new “synthetic antibody” that could make screening for diseases easier and less expensive than current go-to methods. Writing in the journal Nano Letters, a team led by Markita Landry of Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley describes how …
