A major automaker came to Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory recently wanting to better understand battery degradation. After many months of intense collaborative research with a Berkeley Lab battery scientist, they gleaned some important insights into …
Imagine a fleet of driverless taxis roaming your city, ready to pick you up and take you to your destination at a moment’s notice. While this may seem fantastical, it may be only a matter of time before it becomes reality. And according to a new study from …
Translocation of the carotenoid pigment within a critical light-sensitive protein called the Orange Carotenoid Protein triggers a shifting of the protein from the light-absorbing orange state to the energy- quenching red state, providing cyanobacteria with …
In this adiabatic elimination scheme, the movement of light through two outer nanoscale waveguides is controlled via a “dark” middle waveguide that does not accumulate any light. (Image by Zhosia Rostomian) A new route to ultrahigh density, ultracompact …
The new Berkeley Center for Magnet Technology (BCMT) will advance magnet technologies by bringing together research and development expertise from across Berkeley Lab. Developed under the leadership of Wim Leemans, director of the Accelerator Technology …
A better way to screen chemicals that may cause cancer is under development. This image shows in two dimensions what Berkeley lab scientists are working to achieve in three dimensions: cultures containing diverse cell types (seen here using red and green …
A highly promising technique called “high-resolution scanning electron microscopy,” or HRSEM, extends scanning microscopy to the atomic scale and provides information on both surface and bulk atoms simultaneously. For the first time in the long and vaunted …
When gaseous carbon dioxide is dissolved in water, its hydrophobic nature carves out a cylindrical cavity, setting the stage for the proton transfer reactions that produce carbonic acid. Blink your eyes and it’s long gone. Carbonic acid exists for only a …
Air travels accounts for about two-percent of the annual greenhouse gas emissions from human activity. A new catalytic process for biofuels could significantly reduce this figure. (courtesy of Boeing) The problem is simple to understand. Molecules of …
A group of scientists from the Atmospheric Measurement Research (ARM) Climate Research Facility won’t be looking for gold or oil this summer as they crisscross Alaska’s North Slope in an airplane. Instead, the ARM Airborne Carbon Measurements V (ARM-ACME V …
Chuck Shank (photo by Roy Kaltschmidt) Charles (Chuck) Shank, who served as Berkeley Lab’s director from 1989 through 2004, has been named by President Obama as one of two recipients of the Enrico Fermi Award, one of the federal government’s oldest and …
A new X-ray based technique for studying buried interfaces reveals that the more the incident angle increases, the deeper the X-rays penetrate the system, allowing for depth-resolved analysis of the system. The nanoscale device community has shown great …
Berkeley Lab researchers have developed a way to produce high-repetition-rate XUV light for obtaining rapid, sharp images of a material’s electronic structure. If you want to understand how novel phases emerge in correlated materials, including high- …
Event display of one of the collimator “splash” event seen by the ATLAS experiment in LHC Run-2 , on Tuesday April the 7th : event 22425, run 260466. The collimator position is 140m in front of the ATLAS interaction point. The spray of particles enters …
Jessica Su, a UC Berkeley student who worked at the Molecular Foundry with Ron Zuckermann, next to Overture, a robot that assembles dozens of custom peptoids at a time. There’s an urgent demand for new antimicrobial compounds that are effective against …
Explaining scientific research so that the public can understand and appreciate its value is what science writers do and no one ever did it better than Judith (Judy) Goldhaber who wrote more than a thousand articles about Berkeley Lab research during her …
With two off-the-shelf digital cameras situated about 1 kilometer apart facing Miami’s Biscayne Bay, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory scientists David Romps and Rusen Oktem are collecting three-dimensional data on cloud behavior that have never been …
Berkeley, CA, May 26, 2015—Mother Nature makes it happen so effortlessly and efficiently—turning sunlight, water and carbon dioxide into the building blocks for fuel for plants, that is. Now, researchers have a new home to replicate Mother Nature’s …
Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source is an electron accelerator/storage ring that serves as a premier source of X-ray beams for scientific research ranging from advanced materials to protein crystallography and 3D biological imaging. (Photo by Roy …
Four of the nine scientists named by U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz as recipients of the 2015 Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award, the Department of Energy (DOE)’s highest scientific honor, are affiliated with Berkeley Lab. Three hold senior scientist …
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