Saul Perlmutter The U.S. Department of Energy announced today that the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has signed a $146 million contract with Cray for the facility’s next-generation …
Climate scientists have not been properly accounting for what plants do at night, and that, it turns out, is a mistake. A new study from the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has found that plant nutrient uptake in …
In the quest for abundant, renewable alternatives to fossil fuels, scientists have sought to harvest the sun’s energy through “water splitting,” an artificial photosynthesis technique that uses sunlight to generate hydrogen fuel from water. But water- …
(Credit: iStock.com/timoph) Applying artificial intelligence to self-driving cars to smooth traffic, reduce fuel consumption, and improve air quality predictions may sound like the stuff of science fiction, but researchers at the Department of Energy’s …
Sean Peisert – a cybersecurity expert and staff scientist in Berkeley Lab’s Computational Research Division – is one of thousands of DOE scientists who have dedicated their careers to finding the best solutions to some of our nation’s biggest problems. ( …
(Credit: Marilyn Chung/Berkeley Lab) How do you create the largest 3D map of the universe? It’s as easy as teaching 5,000 robots how to “dance.” DESI, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, is an experiment that will target millions of distant …
Sally Shaw, a UC Santa Barbara postdoctoral researcher, stands beside a 12-foot-tall acrylic tank at a manufacturing site in Colorado. The tank was built for the LUX-ZEPLIN dark matter search experiment now under construction in Lead, South Dakota. (Credit …
Juliane Mueller, a research scientist in the Computational Research Division, is developing an “optimization algorithm” toolset that pinpoints which variables of a “black box” simulation model will churn out the most realistic data in less time. Her work …
As part of the Watershed Function Scientific Focus Area (SFA) Berkeley Lab researchers are studying how disturbances to mountainous watersheds impact the downstream delivery of water, nutrients, carbon, and metals, at the East River basin in Colorado. ( …
(Credit: iStock/Freeartist) By Christina Nunez A color developed by Egyptians thousands of years ago has a modern-day application as well – the pigment can boost energy efficiency by cooling rooftops and walls, and could also enable solar generation of …
The atmospheric haze of Titan, Saturn’s largest moon (pictured here along Saturn’s midsection), is captured in this natural-color image (box at left). A study that involved experiments at Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source has provided new clues about …
– by Christina Procopiou Scientists investigating how human-induced increases in atmospheric methane also increase the amount of solar energy absorbed by that gas in our climate system have discovered that this absorption is 10 times stronger over desert …
VIDEO: Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source takes a next step toward a major upgrade. (Credit: Berkeley Lab) The Advanced Light Source (ALS), a scientific user facility at the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley …
Berkeley Lab’s Molecular Foundry Nanofabrication clean room. (Credit: Berkeley Lab) The U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and UC Berkeley today announced the formation of Berkeley Quantum, a partnership …
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) this week announced support from the Department of Energy that significantly expands the Lab’s research efforts in quantum information science, an area of research that harnesses the phenomenon of …
A visualization of a massive galaxy cluster that shows dark matter density (purple filaments) overlaid with the gas velocity field. (Credit: Illustris Collaboration) Figuring out how to extend the search for dark matter particles – dark matter describes …
Irfan Siddiqi (left), director of the Lab’s AQT effort, and Jonathan Carter, AQT co-principal investigator, in front of a dilution refrigerator housing superconducting qubits. Siddiqi is a staff scientist in Berkeley Lab’s Material Sciences Division and …
Inside the first ProtoDUNE detector, before it was filled with liquid argon. (Credit: CERN) Note: This article was adapted from an original press release published by Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. View the original release. The largest liquid- …
Heather Crawford and her team of researchers are developing a prototype for an ultrahigh-rate high-purity germanium detector that can count 2 to 5 million gamma rays per second while maintaining high resolution. (Credit: Marilyn Chung/Berkeley Lab) Heather …
-By Lida Gifford In the quest to find the key to a rainforest dwelling bacterium’s lignin-degrading ability, researchers at the Department of Energy (DOE)’s Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) have constructed a gene expression system that outperforms …
