Research conducted at Niwot Ridge in Colorado explored how warming will alter tree establishment at and above the tree line. Photo: Jeffry Mitton Scientists expect trees will advance upslope as global temperatures increase, shifting the tree line—the …
When the frozen Arctic tundra starts to thaw around June of each year, the snow melting and the ground softening, the soil may release a large pulse of greenhouse gases, namely, carbon dioxide and methane. Little has been known about such releases. Now …
Wim Leemans, director of Berkeley Lab’s Accelerator Technology & Applied Physics Division, speaks with graduate students Joost Daniels, left, and Kelly Swanson in the BELLA laser control room. Berkeley Lab’s BELLA Center is the site of a laser plasma …
During the kraft process used to convert wood into wood pulp, the structural material lignin is partially converted into molecules like stilbene. Stilbenes are also naturally occurring in plants and some bacteria, and may play a role in plant pathogen …
Berkeley Lab scientists are developing new ways to see the unseen. Here are seven imaging advances (recently reported in our News Center) that are helping to push science forward, from developing better batteries to peering inside cells to exploring the …
Researchers have developed a specialized type of glowing metal organic framework, or LMOF (molecular structure at center), that is designed to detect and remove heavy-metal toxins from water. At upper left, mercury (Hg) is taken in by the LMOF. The graph …
Media Contacts: Sarah Yang, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, (510) 486-4575, scyang@lbl.gov Tom Rickey, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, (509) 375-3732, trickey@pnnl.gov Genetics and birthplace have a big effect on the makeup of the microbial …
Arun Devaraj, a staff scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, loads a sample into a chamber in preparation for an atom probe tomography experiment. This method, which can provide a nanoscale 3-D map of a chemical element’s distribution in a …
Five 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 …
Never mind the story of Moses parting the Red Sea. How exactly do plants split water? An international team of scientists is getting closer to the answer thanks to unprecedented, atomic-scale images of a protein complex found in plants, algae, and …
They say diamonds are forever, but diamonds in fact are a metastable form of carbon that will slowly but eventually transform into graphite, another form of carbon. Being able to design and synthesize other long-lived, thermodynamically metastable …
Plant biologists have bumped up crop productivity by increasing the expression of genes that result in more efficient use of light in photosynthesis, a finding that could be used to help address the world’s future food needs. Tobacco leaves showing …
This computer rendering shows the skeletonized structure of heterochromatin (red represents a thin region while white represents a thick region), a tightly packed form of DNA, surrounding another form of DNA-carrying material known as euchromatin (dark …
Next-generation solar cells made of super-thin films of semiconducting material hold promise because they’re relatively inexpensive and flexible enough to be applied just about anywhere. Researchers are working to dramatically increase the efficiency at …
This hydrodynamic simulation shows the flow patterns, or “vorticity distribution,” from a smoke ring-like swirling fluid around the beam direction of two colliding heavy ions. The simulation provides new insights about the properties of a superhot fluid …
Scientists have found a way to engineer the atomic-scale chemical properties of a water-splitting catalyst for integration with a solar cell, and the result is a big boost to the stability and efficiency of artificial photosynthesis. Schematic of the multi …
Technologies enabling energy-saving cool roofs, long-lived lithium-sulfur batteries, better biological data from X-ray experiments, safer drinking water, and reduced carbon dioxide in the atmosphere—developed by researchers at Berkeley Lab—have received …
New findings suggest the rate at which CO2 is accumulating in the atmosphere has plateaued in recent years because Earth’s vegetation is grabbing more carbon from the air than in previous decades. That’s the conclusion of a multi-institutional study led by …
-Written by Lynn Yarris How do you speak on behalf of a living legend like Berkeley Lab’s Art Rosenfeld, a particle physicist who attained international recognition as the “godfather of energy efficiency?” That was the challenge faced by Ashok Gadgil, …
Bringing opposing forces together in one place is as challenging as you would imagine it to be, but researchers in the field of optical science have done just that. Scanning electron microscope image of the single device capable of lasing and anti-lasing. …
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