A photo collage featuring the top 10 winning photos in the 2018 Berkeley Lab Physics Photowalk photo competition. The winning photos and photographers are detailed below. A photo featuring a view of UC Berkeley’s landmark Campanile building, the San …
A researcher collects environmental data in Rifle, Colorado as part of a DOE-sponsored research project. (Credit: Roy Kaltschmidt/Berkeley Lab) By Linda Vu Having access to environmental data is crucial for everything from planning for our water and …
What goes on at an X-ray light source? Tune in to Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s (Berkeley Lab’s) Facebook page, at https://www.facebook.com/BerkeleyLab/, at 1:30 p.m. this Friday, July 27. Staff from Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source (ALS) …
William R. Bill Baker at the Lab in 1940 (left) and in 1980, the year he retired from the Lab. (Photo courtesy of Bill Baker’s family) William R. “Bill” Baker, who died May 4 at age 103, was a lifelong engineer with an unrelenting mind and boundless …
Ramamoorthy Ramesh (Credit: Roy Kaltschmidt/Berkeley Lab) After serving four years as Berkeley Lab’s Associate Director for Energy Technologies, Ramamoorthy Ramesh will be returning to his research in ultra low-power electronics while also helping to lead …
Ravi Prasher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Credit: Marilyn Chung/Berkeley Lab) Ravi Prasher has been appointed Associate Laboratory Director for Energy Technologies at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley …
Berkeley Lab researchers Francesca Toma (left) and Johanna Eichhorn used a photoconductive atomic force microscope to better understand materials for artificial photosynthesis. (Credit: Marilyn Chung/Berkeley Lab) In the quest to realize artificial …
A worker inspects the titanium cryostat for the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment in a clean room. (Credit: Matt Kapust/SURF) Note: This article is adapted from a press release by the U.K. Science and Technology Facilities Council. A large titanium cryostat designed …
In this artistic composition, based on a real image of the IceCube Lab at the South Pole, a distant source (top right) emits neutrinos that are detected below the ice by IceCube sensors, called digital optical modules (DOMs). (Credit: IceCube/NSF) Note: …
Spencer Klein at the geographic South Pole in 2006. (Photo courtesy of Spencer Klein/Berkeley Lab) Dozens of scientists and engineers across multiple divisions at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) played a role …
Kate Greene and Anastasios Karnazes at Berkeley Lab’s 88-Inch Cyclotron. (Credit: Kelly J. Owen/Berkeley Lab) Two poets walk into an 88-Inch Cyclotron … and what happens next is an uncommon pairing of accelerated particles and artistic expression. The …
Simulated radiation hotspots in an urban area. (Credit: Oak Ridge National Laboratory) Competing in a fictitious high-stakes scenario, a group of scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) bested two dozen …
Berkeley Lab research scientist Erica Woodburn is developing a new modeling technique that employs a remote sensing technology to understand the effects of climate change on California’s water supply. (Credit: Marilyn Chung/Berkeley Lab) Erica Woodburn …
The Fermilab NOvA neutrino experiment announced that it has seen strong evidence of muon antineutrinos oscillating into electron antineutrinos over long distances, a phenomenon that has never been unambiguously observed. (Credit: Sandbox Studio) Note: This …
On May 16, Berkeley Lab hosted a Physics Photowalk as part of a Global Physics Photowalk photo competition. A group of visiting photographers, both professional and amateur, toured several science facilities at Berkeley Lab. Participants then submitted …
Images resulting from recent simulations at NERSC show the distribution of ground motion intensity across the San Francisco Bay Area region 10 seconds after a large-magnitude earthquake along the Hayward Fault. (Credit: Berkeley Lab) – By Christina …
Visualization of a bacterial cell (top) converting the chemical energy of organic molecules to electrons that are transferred to an inorganic tin oxide catalyst (bottom) via molecular wires embedded in an ultrathin silica layer (middle). The proton …
Six scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have been selected by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Science to receive significant funding for research through its Early Career Research Program. The program, now …
(Click for larger view.) A screenshot of image-based results in the Science Search interface. In this case, the user performed an image search for nanoparticles. (Credit: Gonzalo Rodrigo/Berkeley Lab) As scientific datasets increase in both size and …
At left, a tiny bead struck by a laser (at the yellowish spot shown at the top of the image) produces optical modes that circulate around the interior of the bead (pinkish ring). At right, a simulation of how the optical field inside a 5-micron (5 …
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