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 …
Brianna Mount, assistant professor of physics at Black Hills State University, at work in the Black Hills State University Underground Campus (BHUC) at Sanford Lab, where components of the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment were tested to learn the background …
Tijana Radivojevic (left) and Hector Garcia Martin working on mechanical and statistical modeling, data visualizations, and metabolic maps at the Agile BioFoundry last year. (Credit: Thor Swift/Berkeley Lab) If you’ve eaten vegan burgers that taste like …
The ATLAS detector at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider. (Credit: CERN) Note: This article was originally published by Symmetry magazine. Read the original article. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) plays with Albert Einstein’s famous equation, E = mc², to …
This image shows a reconstruction of a particle event at CERN’s ATLAS detector that produced W bosons from photons, which are particles of light. (Credit: ATLAS collaboration) Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National …
The South Pole Telescope scans the sky as the southern lights, or aurora australis, form green patterns in this 2018 video clip. The CMB-S4 project will feature new telescopes around this site of current experiments at the South Pole, and also in Chile’s …
View Berkeley Lab from above in this video, which uses drone footage taken at the Lab in 2020. (Credit: Thor Swift, Marilyn Sargent/Berkeley Lab) View Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) from the sky in this aerial video, which features …
A collage showing the first six posters in Ana Lyons’ series honoring black physicists. (Credit: Ana Lyons) Inspired by the nation’s grappling with issues of race and racial discrimination in the wake of George Floyd’s May 25 killing by police during his …
The Quantum Systems Accelerator will optimize a wide range of advanced qubit technologies available today. Berkeley Lab uses sophisticated dilution refrigerators to cool and operate superconducting quantum processor circuits. (Credit: Thor Swift/Berkeley …
California grows more tomatoes than any other state. Many of the areas where they have traditionally been grown, however, are predicted to become too warm even for this warm-season crop. (Credit: Alp Aksoy/Shutterstock) Record drought and heat have some …
Proton-beam therapy at the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland. Berkeley Lab is working with PSI and Varian Medical Systems to develop a new system with improved beam performance. (Credit: Center for Proton Therapy/PSI) U.S. Department of Energy awards …
Electron microscopy experiments revealed meandering stripes formed by metal atoms of rhenium and niobium in the lattice structure of a 2D transition metal dichalcogenide alloy. (Image courtesy of Amin Azizi) To tune the band gap, a key parameter in …
To make the new material, the thin film is first deposited via a pulsed-laser deposition process in this chamber. The bright “plume” you see is the laser hitting the target and depositing the material. (Image courtesy of Lane Martin) Capacitors that …
A view of the San Francisco Bay Area from Berkeley Lab during the 2018 Camp fire (left) and three weeks prior. The graphs show PM2.5 concentrations (microgram per cubic meter), with the x-axis as measured by the regulatory monitor in downtown Berkeley and …
This rendering shows the density of matter in the aftermath of two merged neutron stars, resulting in the formation of a black hole. (Credit: David Radice/Pennsylvania State University) A new Physics Frontier Center at UC Berkeley, supported by the …
Infographic published with permission from the authors of “Increasing anthropogenic methane emissions arise equally from agricultural and fossil fuel sources.” (Credit: Jackson et al. 2020, Environmental Research Letters) Last month, an international team …
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