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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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