The Kendall Grassland site in southeastern Arizona is one of many Ameriflux sites in the project. (Credit: Russ Scott, USDA-ARS) In 2012, the United States experienced the warmest spring on record followed by the most severe drought since the Dust Bowl. …
Just in time for the icy grip of winter: A team of researchers led by scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has identified several mechanisms that make a new, cold-loving material one of the …
Berkeley, CA — A new study estimates that $2.2 billion in benefits came from reduced greenhouse gas emissions and $5.2 billion from reductions in other air pollution for state renewable portfolio standard (RPS) policies operating in 2013. The report also …
The bacterium Moorella thermoacetica is being used to perform photosynthesis in a hybrid artificial photosynthesis system for converting sunlight into valuable chemical products. Trainers of dogs, horses, and other animal performers take note: a bacterium …
Paul Alivisatos The White House has announced that Paul Alivisatos, director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), award-winning chemist and internationally recognized authority on the fabrication of nanocrystals and their use in …
-Written by Glenn Roberts Scientists have for the first time viewed how bacterial proteins self-assemble into thin sheets and begin to form the walls of the outer shell for nano-sized polyhedral compartments that function as specialized factories. The …
It is well established that white roofs can help mitigate the urban heat island effect, reflecting the sun’s energy back into space and reducing a city’s temperature under normal weather conditions. In a new study of Guangzhou, China, Lawrence Berkeley …
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have developed a novel electrolyte for use in solid-state lithium batteries that overcomes many of the problems that plague other solid electrolytes while …
This AFM image shows 2D F4TCNQ islands on graphene/BN that could be used to modify the graphene for electronic applications. In what could prove to be a significant advance in the fabrication of graphene-based nanodevices, a team of Berkeley Lab …
Plasmons, which may be thought of as clouds of electrons that oscillate within a metal nanocluster, could serve as antennae to absorb sunlight more efficiently than semiconductors. Understanding and manipulating them is important for their potential use in …
The research group of Alex Pines has recorded the first bulk room-temperature NMR hyperpolarization of carbon-13 nuclei in diamond in situ at arbitrary magnetic fields and crystal orientations. (Photo by Christophoros Vassiliou) Researchers with the U.S. …
184AA3, a xenograft model of ER+ breast adenocarcinoma, is the first clinically-relevant mouse model to generate tumors that bear a striking resemblance to the class of tumors found in the vast majority of women with breast cancer. The first clinically- …
BERKELEY, Calif. — The Large Underground Xenon (LUX) dark matter experiment, which operates nearly a mile underground at the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) in the Black Hills of South Dakota, has already proven itself to be the most sensitive …
SEM images of xz cross-sections perpendicular to the cold finger show that in conventional freeze-casting (A&D), nucleation produces a disordered layer of ceramic particles. Under bidirectional freeze-casting (C&F), with dual temperature gradients, …
As often happens in science, what started as a research project to make one thing turned into something completely different. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) researchers Nitash Balsara and Hany Eitouni were developing an …
UC Berkeley media contact: Sarah Yang, (510) 643-7741 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and UC Berkeley announced they are partnering with Tsinghua University in Beijing to form the Berkeley Tsinghua Joint Research Center on Energy and …
The electric industry in the U.S. is undergoing significant changes for a number of reasons, including new and improved technologies, changing customer desires, low load growth in many regions, and changes in federal and state policies and regulations. A …
Glioblastoma multiforme, a cancer of the brain also known as “octopus tumors,” is virtually inoperable, resistant to therapies, and always fatal, usually within 15 months of onset. Glioblastoma multiforme, a cancer of the brain also known as “octopus …
(from left) Chris Weyandt, Deirdre Carter, and John Elliott helped implement an online monitoring system for water cooling towers like this one at Bldg. 71. (Photo by Roy Kaltschmidt/Berkeley Lab) With California in an extreme drought, Lawrence Berkeley …
A new center for advancing computational science and networking at research institutions and universities across the country opened today at the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). Berkeley Lab’s Shyh Wang …
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