Berkeley Lab scientists take soil samples at Blodgett Forest (Credit: Roy Kaltschmidt/Berkeley Lab) A new study led by Berkeley Lab has provided the first physical evidence that warmer temperatures lead to a significant drop in the stored carbon stock in …
Therese M. Leone has been named Chief Laboratory Counsel (CLC) for Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, effective July 1. She will be responsible for evaluating and assessing legal and other risks in context of mission objectives, mentoring and leading …
A protist of the Frontonia genus. (Credit: iStock/Sinhyu) Among the large cast of microbiome players, bacteria have long been hogging the spotlight. But the single-celled organisms known as protists are finally getting the starring role they deserve. A …
One of the rapid COVID-19 tests currently on the market. These tests may be nearly instant and convenient, but they aren’t highly accurate. (Credit: iStock/OKrasyuk) Vaccines are turning the tide in the pandemic, but the risk of infection is still present …
White buildings stand along an alley in Los Angeles, California. Light-colored paints can help reflect sunlight, helping to cool cities and fight the urban heat island effect. (Credit: iStock) Sunlight-reflecting “cool walls” have been shown to reduce …
The disk of the Andromeda Galaxy (M31), which spans more than 3 degrees, is targeted by a single DESI pointing, represented by the large, pale green, circular overlay. The smaller circles within this overlay represent the regions accessible to each of the …
A LArPix sensor with 4900 pixels under testing at Berkeley Lab before shipment to the University of Bern for installation. (Credit: Thor Swift, Berkeley Lab) -By Bill Schulz An experiment to capture unprecedented 3D images of the trajectories of charged …
A winter photo of scientists at the IceCube Collaboration (Credit: Martin Wolf, IceCube/NSF) This feature was adapted from a release produced by the IceCube Collaboration. Read the original release It was the beginning of a grand experiment unlike anything …
-By Bob Cahn Cosmologists have found a way to double the accuracy of measuring distances to supernova explosions – one of their tried-and-true tools for studying the mysterious dark energy that is making the universe expand faster and faster. The results …
Berkeley Lab physicist Uroš Seljak (Credit: Sebastian Seljak) A trio of physicists – including Uroš Seljak of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) – has been awarded the 2021 Gruber Cosmology Prize for their work studying the large-scale …
The meteorite studied in this work, named Miles, weighed 265 kg when it was discovered on a farm in Queensland, Australia, in 1992. This photo shows a 20-centimeter slice of the Miles meteorite loaned by the Harvard Museum of Natural History collection. ( …
Berkeley Lab’s new endothelial function monitor can be used at home, much like a standard blood pressure monitor. (Credit: iStock/PIKSEL) Blood pressure monitors are a common at-home tool for monitoring heart health, but they don’t look at the health of …
A young mother in Rwanda cuddles her newborn with skin-to-skin contact, wrapped with the Infant Warmer mat. (Credit: Anne Hansen, Department of Pediatrics, Boston Children’s Hospital. Photo taken July, 2019 in Butaro Hospital, Rwanda, with informed consent …
UC Berkeley chemists synthesized a flexible polymer membrane incorporating nanoparticles called “porous aromatic frameworks.” The membrane selectively absorbs nearly 100% of metals such as mercury, copper, or iron during desalination, more efficiently …
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N. Louise Glass speaking at a JGI users meeting. (Credit: Roy Kaltschmidt/Berkeley Lab) N. Louise Glass, a senior faculty scientist in the Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology Division and professor in UC Berkeley’s Department of Plant & …
Ion beams can create chains of closely coupled quantum bits (qubits) based on nitrogen-vacancy “color centers” in diamond for use in quantum computing hardware. The honeycomb pattern in the photo shows the difference between areas exposed to the beam ( …
The experimental quantum computing setup at the Advanced Quantum Testbed. (Credit: Berkeley Lab) -By Glenn Roberts Jr. A team led by physicists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and UC Berkeley has successfully observed the …
Only about 2% of plastics are fully recycled currently. PDK plastics could solve the single-use crisis. (Chanchai Phetdikhai/Shutterstock) Plastics are a part of nearly every product we use on a daily basis. The average person in the U.S. generates about …
For new energy technologies, the time elapsed from when a breakthrough is made in a laboratory setting until when it is validated, scaled up, piloted, and then widely commercialized can be years or even decades. But in the race to avoid the most damaging …
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