A world cloud generated from the titles of more than 17,000 diverse structural biology papers that cite Phenix. (Credit: Berkeley Lab) It’s fair to say that before the COVID-19 pandemic, very few non-scientists could name a viral protein. But now, millions …
The High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) Accelerator Upgrade Project magnets use conductors made of niobium-tin to generate a stronger magnetic field compared to predecessor technology. These world-record-setting magnets will have their debut in …
These maps show radiation dose rates in the Fukushima evacuation zone and former evacuation zone over time. At left is data from 2014, at middle is data from 2015, and at right is data from 2016. There is a visible reduction in the areas with higher dose …
Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source at sunset. (Credit: Thor Swift/Berkeley Lab) The U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) supports more than 10,000 jobs in the Bay Area and nearly 20,000 jobs across the country, …
Mapping nuclear phase changes is like studying how water changes under different conditions of temperature and pressure. Collisions at Brookhaven Lab’s RHIC’s collisions “melt” protons and neutrons to create quark-gluon plasma (QGP). Physicists are …
Schematic of multiplexed antennas emitting coherent light. The technology could overcome current data capacity limits. (Courtesy of Kanté Group, UC Berkeley) Adapted from UC Berkeley news release by Sarah Yang Researchers at Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley …
This illustration shows the two main forms of disruptive protein clumps found in the brains of people with Alzheimer’s disease: beta-amyloid plaques (seen in brown) that collect between neurons and disrupt cell function, and tau protein tangles (seen in …
A pair of Berkeley Lab reports analyzes the direct and indirect costs of major power outages. (Credit: iStock) Little is known about the full impact of widespread, long duration power interruptions, especially the indirect costs and related economy-wide …
This scanning electron microscope image shows SARS-CoV-2 emerging from the surface of cells (blue/pink) cultured in the lab. (Credit: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases-Rocky Mountain Laboratories, NIH) As the COVID-19 pandemic enters …
A conceptual drawing of the COSMIC microscope, with X-rays shown in purple. All equipment is mounted to a central cylinder. The zone plate, a type of X-ray optic, is scanned relative to this cylinder while the sample is held stationary. The instrument …
Imaging of the same spot shows that cracks eventually self-heal, an important trademark that maintains the integrity of structured liquids. Real-time video of 70 nm nanoparticles (red) and 500 nanometer nanoparticles (green) captured via laser scanning …
Berkeley Lab is pursuing a portfolio of negative emissions technologies and related research to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. (Credit: Gary Whitton/Shutterstock) Human activity is now leading to the equivalent of 40 billion tons of carbon …
CERN’s ATLAS detector undergoes upgrades in 2020 in preparation for its next round of particle physics experiments, scheduled to begin in 2022. (Credit: CERN) In physicists’ ongoing search for new particles, it’s always easiest to find them when you have …
This half-meter-long prototype of a niobium-tin superconducting undulator magnet was designed and built by a team from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley, Argonne, and Fermi national laboratories. The next step will be to build a meter-long …
This BELLA HTT laser system enables multipulse, high-energy-density photon sources for LaserNetUS and other experiments. (Credit: Berkeley Lab) The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Committee (FESAC) has adopted and endorsed a …
An ATLAS particle collision event display from 2018, showing the spray of particles (orange lines) emanating from the collision of protons, and the detector readout (squares and rectangles). (Credit: ATLAS collaboration) A team of researchers at Lawrence …
Susannah Tringe, photographed in Berkeley, California, 02/04/2021. (Credit: Thor Swift/Berkeley Lab) Following an international search, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has named Susannah Tringe, known for her work in advancing the …
An illustration featuring Elway, the San Clemente Island goat whose poop samples were used in this study. (Credit: Santa Barbara Zoo, Shutterstock, Aliyah Kovner) Converting the tough fibers and complex sugars in plants into biofuels and other products …
Ninety years ago, in August of 1931, physics professor Ernest Lawrence created the Radiation Laboratory in a modest building on the UC Berkeley campus to house his cyclotron, a particle accelerator that ushered in a new era in the study of subatomic …
Berkeley Lab scientists Leticia Arnedo-Sanchez (from left), Katherine Shield, Korey Carter, and Jennifer Wacker had to add respirators to their toolkit to protect against coronavirus to conduct experiments with the rare element, einsteinium. (Credit: …
