A 20-centimeter-long capillary discharge waveguide, used at BELLA Center to guide high-intensity laser pulses, and applied to set their record thus far for accelerating electrons: 8 billion electron volts (GeV). (Credit: Thor Swift/Berkeley Lab) – By Joe …
Researchers used artificial intelligence to generate hundreds of new protein structures, including this 3D view of human interleukin-12 bound to its receptor. (Photo credit: Ian Haydon) By Ashleigh Papp “The dream of predicting a protein shape just from …
This video shows steps of the enzymatic reaction that makes a double-ringed molecule, which is the structural starting point to produce molecules in a large class of antibiotics. (Credit: Patrick Rabe/Oxford University) Scientists who specialize in …
(Credit: iStock) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) will be home to a cutting-edge quantum network testbed, thanks to a new five-year, $12.5 million funding award from the U.S. …
A wind farm in Spain (Credit: inakiantonana/iStock) Wind energy continues to see strong growth, solid performance, and low prices in the U.S., according to a report released by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and prepared by Lawrence Berkeley National …
Artist’s illustration of an atomic interferometer used in the proposed quantum gravity experiment. (Credit: Simca Bouma/UC Berkeley) Adapted from a NIST news release. Einstein’s theory of general relativity, which describes gravity as a curvature of space- …
According to a recent Science study led by Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley, applying mechanical strain on this atomically thin, transparent monolayer semiconductor results in a material with loss-free light emission efficiency. (Credit: Ali Javey/Berkeley Lab …
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Supercomputer Embarks on Effort to Help Map the Universe, Dark Energy and All The Wall Street Journal | Jun. 4, 2021 An ambitious dark energy experiment just went live in Arizona Popular Science | May 25, 2021 How 1.5 Degrees Became the Key to Climate …
Artist’s illustration of ghost particles moving through a quantum spin liquid. (Credit: Jenny Nuss/Berkeley Lab) Scientists have taken the clearest picture yet of electronic particles that make up a mysterious magnetic state called a quantum spin liquid ( …
Berkeley Lab researchers Yuqiang Zhen (left) and Sean Lubner measure thermal characterization of batteries. (Credit: Berkeley Lab) -By Kyra Epstein With rising interest in backup power, solar power storage, and electric vehicles, the race is on to improve …
Silicon nanowire prototype being prepared for property measurements in a cryostat. (Credit: Lin Yang, Berkeley Lab) – By Kyra Epstein With a $2-million grant from the California Energy Commission (CEC), Berkeley Lab has developed a cost-effective …
An artistic rendering of antibodies surrounding a SARS-CoV-2 particle.(Credit: ktsdesign/Shutterstock) Lifesaving COVID-19 vaccines are allowing us to feel optimistic again, after more than a year of anxiety and tragedy. But vaccines are only one side of …
Projected changes in annual maximum temperature (top row) and annual minimum temperature (bottom) at three levels of global warming, compared to the 1851-1900 baseline, based on computer simulations. The numbers in the top right indicate the number of …
(Credit: Jenny Nuss, Berkeley Lab) All seventeen U.S. national laboratories and many prominent publishers, journals, and other organizations in scientific publishing announced today the beginning of a partnership to support name change requests from …
Berkeley Lab doctoral student Fumika Isono (center), BELLA Center Deputy Director Jeroen van Tilborg (right), and research scientist Sam Barber set up a novel laser stabilization experiment at one of the BELLA Center’s 100-TW-class lasers. (Credit: Marilyn …
Since buildings consume 75% of electricity in the U.S., they offer great potential for saving energy and reducing the demands on our rapidly changing electric grid. But how much, where, and through which strategies could better management of building …
Credit: Marilyn Sargent/Berkeley Lab The development of an ultrathin magnet that operates at room temperature could lead to new applications in computing and electronics – such as high-density, compact spintronic memory devices – and new tools for the …
This color-enhanced image, taken by scanning electron microscopy, shows huge quantities of SARS-CoV-2 particles (purple) that have burst out of kidney cells (green), which the virus hijacked for replication. The bulging, spherical cells in the upper-right …
X-ray beams allowed researchers to “see” oxygen gas molecules adhere to a specially prepared electrode surface, an important step in the electrochemical reaction taking place in fuel cells. (Credit: Abel Fernandez/UC Berkeley) Solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs …
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