Rice is a staple for half the world’s population and the model plant for grass-type biofuel feedstocks (Photo by Roy Kaltschmidt, Berkeley Lab) A bacterial signal that when recognized by rice plants enables the plants to resist a devastating blight disease …
SINGLE uses in situ TEM imaging of platinum nanocrystals freely rotating in a graphene liquid cell to determine the 3D structures of individual colloidal nanoparticles. Just as proteins are one of the basic building blocks of biology, nanoparticles can …
The Open Cut is an inactive mine pit that draws more than 40,000 visitors to Lead, SD every year. Credit: Kate Greene, Berkeley Lab The town of Lead, South Dakota was once famous for its prodigious gold and silver stores, but lately it’s been getting …
The coffee berry borer is the most devastating coffee pest in the world. The tiny beetle is found in most regions where coffee is cultivated, and a big outbreak can slash crop yield by 80 percent. It’s also a caffeine fiend. The insect is the only coffee …
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), in partnership with Sandia National Laboratories/California (SNL/CA) and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), has been awarded $4.15 million by the Department of Energy (DOE) to jointly launch …
Berkeley, CA – Future distributed solar photovoltaic (PV) deployment levels are highly sensitive to retail electricity rate design, according to a newly released report by researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National …
Schematic illustration of the spectroscopy design with graphene grating: a)Electrochemical cell and spectroscopy configuration (Pt = Platinum); b) Optical microscopic image of a graphene grating on fused silica. Credit: Feng Wang, Berkeley Lab Diffraction …
An image of the USS Independence from the Coda Octopus Echoscope 3D sonar, which was integrated on the Boeing Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) Echo Ranger. Credit: NOAA and Coda Octopus About 42 miles southwest of San Francisco and 2,600 feet underwater …
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 …
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