In this time-lapse video, crews at the Mayall Telescope near Tucson, Arizona, lift and install the top-end components for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, or DESI. The components, which include a stack of six lenses and other structures for …
(Courtesy Ramamoorthy Ramesh) Ramamoorthy Ramesh, a Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) scientist in the Materials Sciences Division, leads a major Lab research initiative called “Beyond Moore’s Law,” which aims to develop next-generation …
Four college teams will square off at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) on Dec. 1 as part of DOE’s fourth collegiate CyberForce Competition. The event aims to address the cybersecurity capability gap …
FIONA is a new system at Berkeley Lab’s 88-Inch-Cyclotron that enables direct mass number measurements of superheavy elements. (Credit: Marilyn Chung/Berkeley Lab) A team led by nuclear physicists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National …
Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) have gained insight into the primary process by which all cells harness energy, known as cellular respiration, of E. coli bacteria and a species of yeast, each of which are common …
Four scientists from the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have been named Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Election as a AAAS Fellow is an honor bestowed upon AAAS members …
An online data management tool for water/energy retrofits, and a device that recycles carbon dioxide into renewable fuels have both been recognized in the 2018 R&D 100 Awards given to the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National …
A team of researchers led by Berkeley Lab and another led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory shared the 2018 ACM Gordon Bell Prize, announced November 15 during the SC18 conference in Dallas, Texas. (Photo courtesy of SC18) A team of computational scientists …
A view of the San Francisco Bay from Berkeley Lab on Nov. 14 (left) and three weeks ago. (Credit: Kelly J. Owen) Brett Singer and Woody Delp are internationally recognized experts in the field of indoor air quality. Singer is a Principal Investigator and …
New supercomputer simulations by climate scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have shown that climate change intensified the amount of rainfall in recent hurricanes such as Katrina, Irma, and Maria …
This image shows a rendering (gray and pink) of the molecular structure of a peptoid polymer that was studied by a team led by Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley. The successful imaging of a polymer’s atomic-scale structure could inform new designs for plastics …
Grab some popcorn: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) scientists have succeeded in capturing a more detailed picture than ever of the steps in the reaction mechanisms in photosynthesis, the process by which plants use sunlight to split …
A rendering of GRETA, the Gamma-Ray Energy Tracking Array. (Credit: Berkeley Lab) A new high-resolution gamma-ray detector system – designed to reveal new details about the structure and inner workings of atomic nuclei, and to elevate our understanding of …
In this illustration, the grid in the background represents the computational lattice that theoretical physicists used to calculate a particle property known as nucleon axial coupling. This property determines how a W boson (white wavy line) interacts with …
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 …
BELLA, the Berkeley Lab Laser Accelerator (Credit: Roy Kaltschmidt/Berkeley Lab) To help foster the broad applicability of high-intensity lasers, the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) is a partner in a new …
Moss evolved after algae but before vascular land plants, such as ferns and trees, making them an interesting target for scientists studying photosynthesis, the process by which plants convert sunlight to fuel. Now researchers at the Department of Energy’s …
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 …
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