Sebastian Palluk (left) and Daniel Arlow of the Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) have pioneered a new way to synthesize DNA sequences. (Credit: Marilyn Chung/Berkeley Lab) In the rapidly growing field of synthetic biology, in which organisms can be …
A collaboration among several U.S. national laboratories has been working on superconducting magnets that will be integral to a planned high-luminosity upgrade for CERN’s Large Hadron Collider. (Credit: Reidar Hahn/Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory) …
This energy dispersive X-ray spectrometry (EDS) map of tiny glassy grains (blue with green specks) inside a cometary-type interplanetary dust particle was produced using the FEI TitanX microscope at Berkeley Lab’s Molecular Foundry. Carbonaceous material ( …
Artist’s rendering of a large meteorite impact on Earth. (Credit: NASA) From moon rocks to meteorites, and from space dust to a dinosaur-destroying impact, the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has a well-storied …
The top row shows electron phase, the second row shows magnetic induction, and the bottom row shows schematics for the simulated phase of different magnetic domain features in multilayer material samples. The first column is for a symmetric thin-film …
The high-stability, high-resolution Thermo Fischer “ThemIS” transmission electron microscope. (Credit: Marilyn Chung/Berkeley Lab) By Laurie Chong Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) now have …
Steve Kevan By Ashley White After an international search, Stephen D. “Steve” Kevan has been named the new director of the Advanced Light Source (ALS) at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). The ALS produces …
About $20 billion worth of energy leaks out of windows in the United States each winter – and that’s with double-paned insulating windows installed on a majority of buildings. The Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) …
Members of the Berkeley Lab ATLAS group who worked on the analyses related to the observation of Higgs boson production in association with top quarks (top, from left to right): Heather Gray, Haichen Wang, Jennet Dickinson, Hongtao Yang, Fabio Cerutti, and …
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 …
A new approach developed by Zak Costello (left) and Hector Garcia Martin brings the the speed and analytic power of machine learning to bioengineering. (Credit: Marilyn Chung, Berkeley Lab) Scientists from the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley …
Andreas Schmid, left, and Gong Chen are pictured here with the spin-polarized low-energy electron microscopy (SPLEEM) instrument at Berkeley Lab. The insturment was integral to measurements of ultrathin samples that included graphene and magnetic materials …
VIDEO: A recap of the Berkeley Lab Physics Photowalk. (Credit: Marilyn Chung/Berkeley Lab) Dozens of photographers visited the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) on Wednesday, May 16 – coinciding with the …
Microscopic images of diamond particles with nitrogen-vacancy defects. These samples, which exhibit a truncated octahedral shape, were used in experiments that sought new ways to tune and control an electronic property known as spin polarization. The scale …
-By Massie Santos Ballon In the air, beneath the ocean’s surface, and on land, microbes are the minute but mighty forces regulating much of the planet’s biogeochemical cycles. To better understand their roles, scientists work to identify these microbes and …
A visualization of the polarization of the cosmic microwave background, or CMB, as detected by ESA’s Planck satellite over the entire sky. A small fraction of the CMB is polarized, meaning it vibrates in a preferred direction. In this image, the color …
Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California, Berkeley have combined cutting-edge cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) with computational molecular modeling to produce a near-atomic-resolution model of …
In this simulation, an electron beam (blue circles) passes through a mixture of hydrogen and xenon gases that it ionizes, transforming the mixture into a plasma of protons, xenon ions, and electrons. The electron beam’s self-field expels the plasma …
Cyclotron Road, an entrepreneurial technology fellowship program based in Berkeley, CA, announced its fourth cohort today. Comprising 13 PhD-level scientists and engineers, these fellows will spend the next two years embedded at the U.S. Department of …
Four scientists affiliated with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) are among the group of 84 new members elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS); all three are also professors at UC Berkeley. Also …
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