Scientists are developing a portable technology that will safely and quickly detect nuclear material hidden within large objects such as shipping cargo containers or sealed waste drums. The researchers, led by Berkeley Lab scientists, have been awarded …
A major advance in artificial photosynthesis poses win/win for the environment – using sequestered CO2 for green chemistry, including renewable fuel production. (Photo by Caitlin Givens) A potentially game-changing breakthrough in artificial photosynthesis …
A new breakthrough battery—one that has significantly higher energy, lasts longer, and is cheaper and safer—will likely be impossible without a new material discovery. And a new material discovery could take years, if not decades, since trial and error has …
Cool roofs can help keep buildings cool, thus lowering the building’s energy use, while also mitigating the urban heat island effect by reflecting sunlight away from buildings and cities. But as cool roofs age and get soiled, how much of their reflectance …
These schematics of magnetic domain walls in perpendicularly magnetized thin films show (a) left-handed and (b) right-handed Neel-type walls; and (c) left-handed and (d) right-handed Bloch-type walls. The directions of the arrows correspond to the …
Bottom view of a CUORE tower. Credit: CUORE Collaboration Today an international team of nuclear physicists announced the first scientific results from the Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events (CUORE) experiment. CUORE, located at the INFN …
Type III CRISPR-Cas complexes were shown to use a thumb-like domain (top right corner) to target specific sites on an RNA molecule for the destruction of invasive nucleic acids. A great deal of public attention in the past couple of years has been showered …
Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have published the world’s largest set of data on the complete elastic properties of inorganic compounds, increasing by an order of magnitude the number of …
The calorimeters at final position ready for run 2 on ATLAS cavern side A. Credit: Marcelloni De Oliveira, Claudia, CERN Editor’s note: Berkeley Lab makes important contributions to the design and construction of the ATLAS and ALICE experiments at the …
Symphony X is an automated chemical synthesizer used at Berkeley Lab. Credit: Ron Zuckermann Earlier this year, Berkeley Lab’s Molecular Foundry got a new suite of robotic synthesis tools called the Overture and the Symphony X (pictured above), automated …
Photo credit: Hugo Glendinning Tropical forests play major roles in regulating Earth’s climate, but there are large uncertainties over how they’ll respond over the next 100 years as the planet’s climate warms. An expansive new project led by scientists …
On the left, collagen fibrils respond to a tear by rearranging themselves towards the tensile-loading direction (arrow). On right, collagen fibrils not under stress are curvy and highly disordered. When weighing the pluses and minuses of your skin add this …
Before scientists can unlock the secrets of the human brain, they must fully understand neurons—the cells of our brain, spinal cord and overall nervous system. Thousands of detailed neuron images, from different organisms, currently sit in individual data …
In the first study of its kind, scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) quantitatively show that electric vehicles (EVs) will meet the daily travel needs of drivers longer than commonly assumed. Many …
Berkeley Lab Director Paul Alivisatos today announced his intention to leave his position once a successor can be recruited to lead the Lab. Alivisatos will return to his research and teaching activities as a senior scientist in the Materials Sciences …
Coiling in zebrafish, a spontaneous flicking of the tail driven by a synchronized neuronal circuit can be suppressed by illumination with light. (Courtesy of the Isacoff lab) In the on-going search for a better understanding of how the brain and central …
There’s a carbon showdown brewing in the Arctic as Earth’s climate changes. On one side, thawing permafrost could release enormous amounts of long-frozen carbon into the atmosphere. On the opposing side, as high-latitude regions warm, plants will grow more …
Appending a diamine molecule to this manganese-based MOF greatly increased its capacity for adsorbing CO2. Green, gray, red, blue and white spheres represent Mn, C, O, N and H atoms respectively. A means by which the removal of carbon dioxide (CO2) from …
Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have uncovered new clues about the risk of cancer from low-dose radiation, which in this research they define as equivalent to 100 millisieverts or roughly …
Switchgrass is a North American native prairie grass widely viewed as one of the most promising of all the biofuel crop candidates. (Photo courtesy of GLBRC) If advanced biofuels are to replace gasoline, diesel and jet fuel on a gallon-for-gallon basis at …
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