The Department of Energy has announced that Susannah Tringe and Dan Kasen, two scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), will receive the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award, one of DOE’s highest honors. Additionally, former Berkeley …
Co-authors Cosmo Buffalo (left) and Richard Hooy discussing the ORF8 structure, shown as a ribbon diagram and space-filling model. (Credit: Kevin Larsen) A team of HIV researchers, cellular biologists, and biophysicists who banded together to support COVID …
The Dos Amigos Pumping Plant in Merced County and California Aqueduct are part of the California State Water Project, an energy-intensive public water project that distributes water throughout the state. (Credit: California Department of Water Resources) …
The Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has named Rachel Slaybaugh, associate professor of nuclear engineering at UC Berkeley, to lead Berkeley Lab’s Cyclotron Road Division. The announcement follows an international …
Soft X-ray tomography provides a map of organelles within an intact cell. (Credit: Katya Kadyshevskaya/USC) The planet is comprised of continents and islands, each with unique cultures and resources. One area may be well known for growing food, another for …
The coronavirus pandemic has taught us many valuable lessons this year, and perhaps foremost among them is the importance of science. Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have always strived to find …
Illustration of the 2D boron nitride substrate with imperfections that host tiny nickel clusters. The catalyst aids the chemical reaction that removes hydrogen from liquid chemical carriers, making it available for use as a fuel. (Credit: Jeff Urban/ …
Katherine Shield (from left), Dahlia An, and Tyler Bailey are part of a research team that developed new methods for the large-scale production, purification, and use of the radioisotope cerium-134, which could serve as a tunable PET imaging surrogate for …
Photomultiplier tubes, designed to pick up faint light signals from particle interactions, line the inside of a detector for the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino experiment. (Credit: Roy Kaltschidt/Berkeley Lab) The Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment …
Scientists are continually searching for new and improved ways to deal with bacteria, be it to eliminate disease-causing strains or to modify potentially beneficial strains. And despite the numerous clever drugs and genetic engineering tools humans have …
In the fight against COVID-19, scientists at Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley are developing an N95 quality-assessment test; a rechargeable, reusable, anti-COVID N95 mask; and a 3D-printable silicon-cast mask mold. (Credit: Alexander Kirch/Shutterstock) In …
A collection of images from past, present, and pending neutrino science experiments, including: Daya Bay, DUNE at LBNF, the Homestake experiment, IceCube, KamLAND, ProtoDUNE and SNO. Displayed in the background is the typed text of a letter that physicist …
Controlling light-matter interactions is central to a variety of important applications, such as quantum dots, which can be used as light emitters and sensors. (Credit: PlasmaChem) Understanding how matter interacts with light – its optical properties – is …
The CUORE detector array, shown here in this rendering, is formed by 19 copper-framed “towers” that each house a matrix of 52 cube-shaped crystals. (Credit: CUORE Collaboration) Surrounded by lead and also shielded by nearly a mile of rock from the natural …
Berkeley Lab’s eight 2020 AAAS Fellows (clockwise, from upper left to lower left): Wibe A. “Bert” de Jong, Spencer R. Klein, Sanjay Kumar, Mary E. Maxon, Peidong Yang, Robert Oliver Ritchie, Len Pennacchio, Esmond G. Ng. The American Association for the …
Artist’s illustration of water molecules. A research team led by Berkeley Lab has designed a new crystalline material that targets and traps copper ions from wastewater with unprecedented precision and speed. (Credit: Sashkin/Shutterstock) We rely on water …
Methane-eating bacteria are found in extreme environments such as active geothermal hot springs. (Credit: Inger Eriksen/Shutterstock) Scientists have determined the structure of a unique enzyme, produced by a species of methane-eating bacteria, that …
STEM (scanning transmission electron microscopy) image of a one-dimensional array of F4TCNQ molecules (yellow-orange) on a gate-tunable graphene device. (Credit: Berkeley Lab) Small electronic circuits power our everyday lives, from the tiny cameras in our …
Artistic interpretation of how microbial genome sequences from the GEM catalog can help fill in gaps of knowledge about the microbes that play key roles in the Earth’s microbiomes. (Credit: Zosia Rostomian/Berkeley Lab) Despite advances in sequencing …
Study authors (from left to right) Andrew K. Lau, Thomas Eng, and Deepanwita Banerjee stand in front of a two-liter bioreactor containing E. coli cells that are producing indigoidine, which causes the strong dark blue color of the liquid. This photo was …
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