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 …
Simulation of the expanding debris from a supernova explosion (shown in red) running over and shredding a nearby star (shown in blue). Image credit: Daniel Kasen, Berkeley Lab/ UC Berkeley Type Ia supernovae are famous for their consistency. Ironically, …
As exposure to gamma radiation transforms Bruce Banner into the Hulk, exposure to alpha-particle radiation can transform thermoelectric materials into far more powerful versions of themselves. (The Hulk, Universal Pictures, 2003, was filmed in part at …
A novel X-ray scattering concept by researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s (Berkeley Lab) Advanced Light Source (ALS) is receiving support from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation in the amount of $2.4M. The grant was announced last month …
CLAIRE image of Al nanostructures with an inset that shows a cluster of six Al nanostructures. Soft matter encompasses a broad swath of materials, including liquids, polymers, gels, foam and – most importantly – biomolecules. At the heart of soft materials …
The Bear Creek watershed in Oak Ridge, TN, was a crucial site for the early development of nuclear weapons under the Manhattan Project and harbors spectacular geochemical gradients. First there were canaries in coal mines, now there are microbes at nuclear …
Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz has awarded Berkeley Lab’s Bill Collins and the software team that developed OSCARS, led by Bill Johnston, with DOE Secretarial Honor Awards, which are the department’s highest form of non-monetary employee recognition. Bill …
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