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 …
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: …
A scanning electron micrograph of Escherichia coli, which are one of many strains of bacteria found in mammalian guts. (Credit: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health) The prevalence of anxiety disorders, …
An animation produced from an X-ray microtomography scan of a female tsetse fly’s abdomen. The animation highlights the female reproductive system, including a milk gland used to feed developing larvae. (Credit: Geoffrey Attardo/UC Davis) To better …
Science Snapshots By Kiran Julin • February 2, 2021 Schematic of thermal interactions with the environment and energy transfers that are needed for the theoretical minimum thermal load (TMTL) calculation. (Credit: Julia Laser and Josh Bauer, NREL) Heating …
A gravitational lens found in the DESI Legacy Surveys data. There are four sets of lensed images that correspond to four background galaxies, which appear as partial rings around an orange galaxy at the center and foreground. (Credit: DESI Legacy Imaging …
Sam Barber, left, a research scientist at Berkeley Lab’s BELLA Center, and Jeroen van Tilborg, a staff scientist at the BELLA Center, hold the active plasma lens, right, and dipole magnets used in an electron-beam diagnostic experiment. The setup enabled …
Regardless of the pathway we take to become carbon neutral by 2050, the actions needed in the next 10 years are the same. (Credit: Jenny Nuss/Berkeley Lab) Reaching zero net emissions of carbon dioxide from energy and industry by 2050 can be accomplished …
(Credit: vchal/Shutterstock) Chemotherapy and radiation treatments are known to cause harsh side effects that patients can see or feel throughout their bodies. Yet there are additional, unseen and often undiscussed consequences of these important therapies …
An artistic rendering of the XMM-Newton (X-ray Multi-Mirror Mission) space telescope. A study of archival data from the XMM-Newton and the Chandra X-ray space telescopes found evidence of high levels of X-ray emission from the nearby Magnificent Seven …
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