Berkeley Lab researcher Kristin Persson, director of the Materials Project (Credit: Roy Kaltschmidt/Berkeley Lab) The Materials Project, a Google-like database of material properties aimed at accelerating innovation, has released an enormous trove of data …
X. Chelsea Chen, a postdoctoral researcher at Berkeley Lab, holds a sample of a polymer membrane material that turned red when it soaked up a chemotherapy drug. The material is designed to bind the drug, based on its electric charge, after the drug targets …
A new study is further burnishing copper’s reputation as an essential nutrient for human physiology. A research team led by a scientist at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has found that copper plays a key …
A new study by Berkeley Lab researchers Dong-Hwa Seo, Alex Urban, Jinhyuk Lee, and Gerd Ceder (from left) sheds light on how lithium-rich cathodes work, opening the door to higher capacity batteries. (Credit: Roy Kaltschmidt/Berkeley Lab) In the quest for …
Ali Hanks, center, and Brian Plimley, right—UC Berkeley postdocs affiliated with Berkeley Lab’s Applied Nuclear Physics program—talk to members of Campolindo High School’s Science Club in April: pictured here (from left) are students Alexander Zerkle, Jiho …
Kathryn Zurek (Credit: Roy Kaltschmidt/Berkeley Lab) Kathryn Zurek realized a decade ago that we may be searching in the wrong places for clues to one of the universe’s greatest unsolved mysteries: dark matter. Despite making up an estimated 85 percent of …
1. We can observe its effects. While we can’t see dark matter, we can observe and measure its gravitational effects. Galaxies have been observed to spin much faster than expected based on their visible matter, and galaxies move faster in clusters than …
Water banking, desalination, and high-resolution climate models are all part of the new Berkeley Lab Water Resilience Initiative. (California snowpack photo credit: Dan Pisut/ NASA) Billions of gallons of water are used each day in the United States for …
Metabolic engineering, proteomics, and metabolomics scientists at the Joint BioEnergy Institute. Shown (l-r) are Taek Soon Lee, Christopher Petzold, Jorge Alonso-Gutierrez, Edward Baidoo, George Wang, and Kevin George. (Credit: Irina Silva/JBEI, Berkeley …
What if checking the state of your arterial health were as simple as monitoring your blood pressure? New technology developed at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) could soon make detecting the process of …
Berkeley, CA — Solar power could deliver $400 billion in environmental and public health benefits throughout the United States by 2050, according to a study from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and …
As in real estate, a key factor in gene expression and interaction is location, location, location. The same genes in different regions of a body may perform totally different functions. Determining the fate of these genes involves systematically mapping …
A computerized representation of a proton-proton collision captured by the ALICE detector during the latest commissioning phase of CERN’S LHC, with low-intensity beams. (Credit: CERN) The most powerful particle accelerator in the world, CERN’s Large Hadron …
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have engineered a strain of bacteria that enables a “one-pot” method for producing advanced biofuels from a slurry of pre-treated plant material. Marijke …
Working at temperatures near absolute zero, scientists at Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley have captured images of proteins at work in the early steps of DNA transcription. DNA unfolding to make RNA. RNA appears briefly in bright red. (Credit: Eva Nogales) The …
The wavelike pattern at the top shows the accordion-like structure of a proposed quantum material—an artificial crystal made of light—that can trap atoms in regularly spaced nanoscale pockets. These pockets can be made to hold a large collection of …
In the world of semiconductors, impurities and defects can be a good thing. They modify the properties of materials such as silicon, and scientists can exploit these properties to develop better transistors for laptops, smart phones, and solar cells. …
The Simons Array will be located in Chile’s High Atacama Desert, at an elevation of about 17,000 feet. The site currently hosts the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (bowl-shaped structure at upper right) and the Simons Array (the three telescopes at bottom left …
The Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) will participate in a new National Microbiome Initiative launched today by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. The initiative, announced at an event in …
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) wants your ideas on how to make buildings smarter and more energy efficient. As a DOE national lab, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) is partnering with the DOE and private industry on JUMP, an online …
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