LZ’s central detector, pictured here during assembly, is located inside a large water tank on the 4850 Level of Sanford Lab. LZ will search for theorized dark matter particles known as WIMPs. (Credit: Nick Hubbard/Sanford Lab) Crews working on the largest …
Kevin Lesko, a spokesperson for the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) dark matter search experiment, discusses dark matter and LZ during a recent visit to Sanford Lab. (Credit: Video production by Marilyn Sargent/Berkeley Lab; Q&A video footage filmed by Matt Kapust/ …
By Natalie Pawelski One hundred and four U.S. companies, schools, governments, and institutions are taking their building energy savings to a new level with the Department of Energy’s Smart Energy Analytics Campaign, a four-year initiative funded through …
Univ. of Tennessee undergrad Elliot Perryman (on right) worked with Biosciences staff scientist Peter Zwart during his fall 2019 Berkeley Lab Undergraduate Research (BLUR) internship. (Credit: Thor Swift/Berkeley Lab) Tenacity comes naturally to a guy who …
Noël Bakhtian will be the director of Berkeley Lab’s new Energy Storage Center. (Credit: Idaho National Laboratory) The Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has appointed Noël Bakhtian, previously a senior policy …
A display of a candidate Higgs boson event at CERN’s ATLAS experiment in which a Higgs boson decays into two muons. The muons appear as red tracks in this rendering. (Credit: ATLAS collaboration) Since the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012 based on data …
A microscopy image of diatoms (single-celled algae) and other aquatic microorganisms. (Credit: Kichigin/Shutterstock) The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation is supporting the development of a unique microscopy concept pioneered by researchers at Lawrence …
Feature Story By Clarissa Bhargava • October 9, 2020 VIDEO: Molecular Foundry Director Kristin Persson celebrates National Nanotechnology Day with students. (Credit: Marilyn Chung/Berkeley Lab) Happy National Nanotechnology Day! Nanotechnology is any …
Berkeley Lab scientist Adam Weber (left) and postdoc Jessica Luo look at experimental data for membrane conductivity in a fuel cell fabrication lab. (Credit: Marilyn Chung/Berkeley Lab) Hydrogen fuel cells are on the rise: Germany has rolled out hydrogen- …
A composite image of the enzyme lactase showing how cryo-EM’s resolution has improved dramatically in recent years. Older images to the left, more recent to the right. (Credit: Veronica Falconieri/National Cancer Institute) We’ve all seen that moment in a …
Illustration of a gold-covered probe tip injecting electrons into a carefully located imperfection in an atomically thin material. The energy from each electron causes the highly localized emission of a single photon, which may then be guided to a detector …
A ribbon diagram (L) and molecular surface representation (R) of carbon-fixing form I’ rubisco, showing eight molecular subunits without the small subunits. An x-ray diffraction pattern of the enzyme, also generated by the research team, is in the …
Jennifer Doudna (Credit: UC Berkeley) Biochemist Jennifer Doudna, a professor at UC Berkeley and faculty scientist at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), is co-winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in chemistry for “ …
(Credit: sunka_art/Shutterstock) Human health is highly dependent on genetics, yet it is also known to be affected by factors in an individual’s environment – and these days that environment is quite stressful. As we shelter in place amid the coronavirus …
Innovative technologies from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) to achieve higher energy efficiency in buildings, make lithium batteries safer and higher performing, and secure quantum communications were some of the inventions honored …
Science Snapshots By Lida Gifford • September 30, 2020 Credit: Design_Cells/Shutterstock Vaccines, which help the body recognize infectious microorganisms and stage a stronger and faster response, are made up of proteins that are specific to each type of …
Science Snapshots By Emily Scott • September 30, 2020 Researchers at Berkeley Lab have transformed lignin, a waste product of the paper industry, into a precursor for a useful chemical with a wide range of potential applications. Lignin is a complex …
Science Snapshots By Emily Scott • September 30, 2020 Plants can produce a wide range of molecules, many of which help them fight off harmful pests and pathogens. Biologists have harnessed this ability to produce many molecules important for human health — …
Near-field scanning microscope image of nanocircuits “written” into a 2D device made of boron nitride and graphene. (Credit: Alex Zettl/Berkeley Lab) A research team led by Alex Zettl, senior faculty scientist in Berkeley Lab’s Materials Sciences Division …
A research team led by Berkeley Lab has gained important new insight into electrons’ role in the harvesting of light for solar fuels. (Credit: Surat Sangwato/Shutterstock) In the search for clean energy alternatives to fossil fuels, one promising solution …
