Follow Berkeley scientists on a 10-day research voyage off the California coast as they test robotic floats in studies of the ocean’s biological carbon pump. Robotic measurements at sea are promising sources of data that could be used to better understand …
The first “petal” machined for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) is shown in these photos. Ten of these petals, which together will hold 5,000 robots (like the one in the lower right photo)—each pointing a thin fiber-optic cable at separate …
For Constance Bailey, a postdoctoral researcher at the Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI), participating as a science adviser in an intensive summer research and education program is her way of ensuring that budding scientists maintain their interest in the …
Artistic rendition of lithium-ion battery particles under the illumination of a finely focused X-ray beam. (Credit: Stanford, Chueh Group) There’s a new tool in the push to engineer rechargeable batteries that last longer and charge more quickly. An X-ray …
Berkeley Lab researchers are using the science of the very small to help solve big challenges. That’s because, at the nanoscale—the scale of molecules and proteins—new and exciting properties emerge that can possibly be put to use. Here are five projects, …
Scientists have revealed for the first time the molecular steps that turn on bacteria’s pathogenic genes. Using an array of high-powered X-ray imaging techniques, the researchers at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley …
Media contact: Jon Weiner, (510)486-4014 While previous studies have found that electronic cigarettes emit toxic compounds, a new study from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has pinpointed the source of these emissions and shown how …
Carbon dioxide has emerged as a new secret ingredient in the recipe for making ethanol, and that addition represents a major step forward in streamlining the biofuel production process. The innovation comes from researchers at the Department of Energy’s …
LEAD, SD, USA / SHEFFIELD, UK — The Large Underground Xenon (LUX) dark matter experiment, which operates beneath a mile of rock at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in the Black Hills of South Dakota, has completed its search for the missing matter …
Many households in impoverished regions around the world are starting to shift away from inefficient and polluting fuel-based lighting—such as candles, firewood, and kerosene lanterns—to solar-LED systems. While this trend has tremendous environmental …
A team of hundreds of physicists and astronomers have announced results from the largest-ever, three-dimensional map of distant galaxies. The team constructed this map to make one of the most precise measurements yet of the dark energy currently driving …
Scientists from the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have discovered a possible secret to dramatically boosting the efficiency of perovskite solar cells hidden in the nanoscale peaks and valleys of the crystalline …
Mimicking nature is not easy, but new insights by researchers at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) could help create a viable artificial system of photosynthesis. Berkeley Lab scientists at DOE’s Joint Center …
In an advance that helps pave the way for next-generation electronics and computing technologies—and possibly paper-thin gadgets —scientists with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) developed a way to …
An international team of scientists that includes researchers at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has revealed how interactions between electrons and ions can slow down the performance of a material considered …
Berkeley Lab researchers (from left) Dale Sartor, Arman Shehabi, Richard Brown, and Sarah Smith are co-authors of a new report on data center energy efficiency. (Credit: Paul Mueller/Berkeley Lab) As the number of data centers continues to increase in the …
Art Rosenfeld The Tang Prize Foundation announced that the 2016 prize in Sustainable Development goes to Berkeley Lab’s Arthur Rosenfeld, known in the field as the “godfather” of energy efficiency. He was chosen as the category’s awardee “for his lifelong …
There may soon be a new way to make molecules to form the basis of pharmaceuticals, fuels, materials, food and an array of other products in our modern life. Chemists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have …
Parker Fagrelius of Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley inspects ProtoDESI, a prototype system for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument. ProtoDESI will be tested at the Mayall Telescope in Arizona in August and September. (Paul Mueller/Berkeley Lab) A …
Gas bubbles in a glass of champagne, thin films rupturing into tiny liquid droplets, blood flowing through a pumping heart and crashing ocean waves—although seemingly unrelated, these phenomena have something in common: they can all be mathematically …
