Particle accelerators are on the verge of transformational breakthroughs—and advances in computing power and techniques are a big part of the reason. Long valued for their role in scientific discovery and in medical and industrial applications such as …
Researchers have shown that when parts of a genome known as enhancers are missing, the heart works abnormally, a finding that bolsters the importance of DNA segments once considered “junk” because they do not code for specific proteins. On the left, a …
When the local water management agency closes your favorite beach due to unhealthy water quality, how reliable are the tests they base their decisions on? As it turns out, those tests, as well as the standards behind them, have not been updated in decades …
A time-lapse view of the Advanced Light Source building at night. (Credit: Haris Mahic/Berkeley Lab) The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has confirmed the need for a unique source of X-ray light that would produce beams up to 1,000 times brighter than are …
Around the world—from tundra to tropical forests, and a variety of ecosystems in between—environmental researchers have set up micrometeorological towers to monitor carbon, water, and energy fluxes, which are measurements of how carbon dioxide (CO2), water …
A cutaway rendering of the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) detector that will be installed nearly a mile deep near Lead, S.D. The central chamber will be filled with 10 metric tons of purified liquid xenon that produces flashes of light and electrical pulses in particle …
A scanning electron microscope image shows triangular (red) and rectangular (blue) samples of a semimetal crystal known as cadmium arsenide. The rectangular sample is about 0.8 microns (thousandths of a millimeter) thick, 3.2 microns tall and 5 microns …
Ed Lofgren at Berkeley Lab in 1966. (Credit: Marilee B. Bailey/Berkeley Lab) —by Jose Alonso Edward Joseph Lofgren passed away peacefully at the age of 102 on Sept. 6, 2016. He was among the pioneering physicists at Berkeley’s Radiation Laboratory, also …
Scientists have successfully paired ferroelectric and ferrimagnetic materials so that their alignment can be controlled with a small electric field at near room temperatures, an achievement that could open doors to ultra low-power microprocessors, storage …
Berkeley Lab researchers Sharon Chen and Paul Berdahl hold up their prototype coating made from ruby powder and synthetic ruby crystals. (Credit: Marilyn Chung/Berkeley Lab) Elementary school science teaches us that in the sun, dark colors get hot while …
When an individual utility customer decides to add rooftop solar to their home or business, the utility needs to deliver less power to that customer from other sources. A small number of solar adopters may not have much of an impact, but rapid growth in …
These atom-scale computer simulations of tetrapods show how they sense compression (left) and tension along one axis (right), both of which are crucial to detecting nanoscale crack formation. The color bar indicates the percent change of the tetrapods’ …
For plants and algae that carry on photosynthesis, light can be too much of a good thing. On a bright, sunny day, a plant might only be able to utilize 20 percent or less of absorbed sunlight. The plant dissipates the excess light energy to prevent damage …
A thermal image of the Hansen Federal Building in Ogden, Utah, where Berkeley Lab performed a window retrofit study. (Credit: Berkeley Lab Windows and Envelope Materials Group) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has been awarded more than …
Nanoengineers at the University of California San Diego, in collaboration with the Materials Project at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), have created the world’s largest database of elemental crystal surfaces and shapes to date. Dubbed …
Technology advancements are expected to continue to drive down the cost of wind energy, according to a survey of the world’s foremost wind power experts led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). Experts anticipate cost reductions of 24%– …
Thorsten Knipfer, a UC Davis postdoctoral researcher, carries an American chestnut sapling into the experimental chamber at Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source. Knipfer and other researchers used X-rays at ALS Beamline 8.3.2 to scan the stems of dozens of …
BERKELEY, Calif.—Scientists at the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) will lead or play key roles in developing 11 critical research applications for next-generation supercomputers as part of DOE’s Exascale …
Reba Siero, an accelerator operator, in the control room of Berkeley Lab’s 88-Inch Cyclotron. (Credit: Paul Mueller/Berkeley Lab) Catherine “Reba” Siero’s comfort zone is here in the control room, surrounded by walls bristling with a busy mix of modern and …
Berkeley Lab’s Ethan Crumlin, working with other researchers, found a new way to study chemical processes at work in batteries and in other chemical reactions using a specialized X-ray toolkit developed at the lab’s Advanced Light Source, an X-ray source …
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