RICHLAND, Wash./BERKELEY, Calif. – The knowledge and expertise of a seasoned energy efficiency professional has been packed into a high-tech suitcase. The Sensor Suitcase is a portable case that contains easy-to-use sensors and other equipment that make it …
A look inside the Heavy Flavor Tracker (HFT) during its fabrication at Berkeley Lab. The device is now installed in the STAR detector at Brookhaven National Laboratory’s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. The HFT enables high-precision measurements of heavy …
California has established ambitious goals to reduce energy consumption in buildings, including a policy goal for all new residential buildings to be zero net energy (ZNE) by 2020. Now the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ( …
Pumice stones. (Credit: Berkeley Lab) It’s true—some rocks can float on water for years at a time. And now scientists know how they do it, and what causes them to eventually sink. X-ray studies at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National …
Plant biologists have sequenced the genome of a particularly promising species of green alga, providing a blueprint for new discoveries in producing sustainable biofuels, antioxidants, and other valuable bioproducts. The researchers targeted Chromochloris …
Road construction with fresh asphalt (Credit: wabeno/iStock) Cool pavements can help keep cities cool, right? Yes, but according to new research from the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), many reflective pavements …
An international team of scientists, including a researcher from Berkeley Lab, have characterized the genome of Biomphalaria glabrata, a freshwater snail that transmits a parasitic worm responsible for the infectious disease schistosomiasis, also known as …
Scientists have greatly expanded the range of functional temperatures for ferroelectrics, a key material used in a variety of everyday applications, by creating the first-ever polarization gradient in a thin film. A new ferroelectric material developed at …
A new process called fiber nanoimprinting is accelerating the fabrication of nano-optical devices, such as this pyramid-shaped Campanile probe imprinted on an optical fiber (captured in a scanning electron microscope image). The gold layer is added after …
-Written By Lida Gifford Cyclic proteins that assemble from multiple identical subunits (homo-oligomers) play key roles in many biological processes, including cell signaling and enzymatic catalysis and protein function. Researchers in Berkeley Lab’s …
Berkeley Lab Scientists Jackie Gates, left, and Kenneth Gregorich work on FIONA, a new device at the Lab’s 88-Inch Cyclotron. FIONA is designed to precisely measure the mass number of the periodic table’s superheavy elements, and could also be useful for …
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has tapped Peter Fiske to be the director of its Water-Energy Resilience Institute, a new position that underscores the Lab’s commitment to developing solutions for the challenges associated with the …
The first two undulator segments—devices that will be used to produce X-ray laser beams for a project known as LCLS-II—arrived at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park on Wednesday. (Credit: SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory) The first …
It may not seem like a material as thin as an atom could hide any surprises, but a research team led by scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) discovered an unexpected magnetic property in a two- …
Program Contact: Alecia Ward, 510-486-4540 The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced that 38 small businesses will collaborate with national lab researchers through the Small Business Vouchers (SBV) pilot, including four that will work with Lawrence …
With the help of an automated supernova-hunting pipeline and a galaxy sitting 2 billion light years away from Earth that’s acting as a “magnifying glass,’’ astronomers have captured multiple images of a Type Ia supernova—the brilliant explosion of a star— …
Beamline 10.0.1 at Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source is optimized for studies of topological properties in materials. (Credit: Roy Kaltschmidt/Berkeley Lab) While using X-rays generated by the Advanced Light Source (ALS), a synchrotron facility at the …
Taking a page out of science fiction playbooks, scientists have demonstrated breakthrough technology capable of generating water out of dry air using the power of the sun. Omar Yaghi, pictured with models of metal-organic frameworks, porous crystalline …
Vast amounts of energy are wasted every year in the form of heat. A new project led by the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (Berkeley Lab) seeks to efficiently capture that heat and convert it to electricity, potentially saving …
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences announced today (Wednesday, April 12) the election of 228 members, including 188 fellows, five of whom are scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). Clockwise …
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