Illustration of a supernova explosion. Such swirling masses of matter gave shape to the earliest forms of carbon – precursors to molecules some scientists say are connected to the synthesis of the earliest forms of life on Earth. (Credit: NASA images/ …
-By Ian Pong and Joe Chew The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has passed the halfway mark in the multi-year process of fabricating crucial superconducting cables as part of a project to upgrade the …
2021 Cyclotron Road fellows: (top row) Antonio Baclig, Kezi Cheng, Jae Cho, Pete Christensen, Sam Green, Aaron Hall; (bottom row) Ben Jenett, Fatma Kaplan, David Mackanic, Ahmet Ozcan, Jimmy Rojas, Karl Cameron Schiller. (Courtesy of Cyclotron Road) This …
Illustration of baker’s yeast. Berkeley Lab’s Rebecca Abergel and her research team have compiled a library of lanthanides and their potential toxicity by exposing baker’s yeast to lanthanide metals. (Credit: Kateryna Kon/Shutterstock) Lanthanides are rare …
Carol J. Burns has been named Deputy Director for Research for Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, effective August 1. In this role, she will develop, implement, and steward Berkeley Lab’s research enterprise and serve as the Lab’s chief research …
The five recipients are, clockwise from top: Robert Saye, Heather Crawford, Marcos Turqueti, Simone Pagan Griso, and Benjamin Cole. Five scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have been selected by the U.S. Department of Energy’ …
Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille, a cosmologist and research director at the Institute for Research on the Fundamental Laws of the Universe at the CEA Paris-Saclay research center, has been selected to serve as the next division director of Lawrence Berkeley …
In this artistic rendering, bubbles of oxygen are shown rising from the edges of a six-sided, plate-like catalyst particle. Such particles carry out the oxygen evolution reaction that splits water molecules and generates oxygen gas – a key step in …
Subhash Verma, associate professor of microbiology and immunology (left) and Timsy Uppal, research scientist, department of microbiology and immunology (right), conducted experiments at the University of Nevada, Reno. Ending the COVID-19 pandemic will …
Berkeley Lab researchers investigated the emissions from vaporizable cannabis concentrates, which come in the form of concentrated liquids or waxy solids often referred to as “extracts” or “hash oils.” (Credit: iStock) By Kiran Julin As more U.S. states …
Berkeley Lab scientists take soil samples at Blodgett Forest (Credit: Roy Kaltschmidt/Berkeley Lab) A new study led by Berkeley Lab has provided the first physical evidence that warmer temperatures lead to a significant drop in the stored carbon stock in …
Therese M. Leone has been named Chief Laboratory Counsel (CLC) for Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, effective July 1. She will be responsible for evaluating and assessing legal and other risks in context of mission objectives, mentoring and leading …
A protist of the Frontonia genus. (Credit: iStock/Sinhyu) Among the large cast of microbiome players, bacteria have long been hogging the spotlight. But the single-celled organisms known as protists are finally getting the starring role they deserve. A …
One of the rapid COVID-19 tests currently on the market. These tests may be nearly instant and convenient, but they aren’t highly accurate. (Credit: iStock/OKrasyuk) Vaccines are turning the tide in the pandemic, but the risk of infection is still present …
White buildings stand along an alley in Los Angeles, California. Light-colored paints can help reflect sunlight, helping to cool cities and fight the urban heat island effect. (Credit: iStock) Sunlight-reflecting “cool walls” have been shown to reduce …
The disk of the Andromeda Galaxy (M31), which spans more than 3 degrees, is targeted by a single DESI pointing, represented by the large, pale green, circular overlay. The smaller circles within this overlay represent the regions accessible to each of the …
A LArPix sensor with 4900 pixels under testing at Berkeley Lab before shipment to the University of Bern for installation. (Credit: Thor Swift, Berkeley Lab) -By Bill Schulz An experiment to capture unprecedented 3D images of the trajectories of charged …
A winter photo of scientists at the IceCube Collaboration (Credit: Martin Wolf, IceCube/NSF) This feature was adapted from a release produced by the IceCube Collaboration. Read the original release It was the beginning of a grand experiment unlike anything …
-By Bob Cahn Cosmologists have found a way to double the accuracy of measuring distances to supernova explosions – one of their tried-and-true tools for studying the mysterious dark energy that is making the universe expand faster and faster. The results …
Berkeley Lab physicist Uroš Seljak (Credit: Sebastian Seljak) A trio of physicists – including Uroš Seljak of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) – has been awarded the 2021 Gruber Cosmology Prize for their work studying the large-scale …
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