This video highlights the components and statistics that make DESI, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, unique. Installed on the Mayall Telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory near Tucson, Arizona, DESI brings high-speed automation to its galaxy- …
In California and other U.S. western states, wildfires have become more frequent and intense, adversely impacting air quality and human health. Smoke from wildfires contains many toxins and irritants, including particles smaller than 2.5 microns in …
Illustration of a 3D cobalt-oxide nanoparticle growing into a 2D nanosheet. (Credit: Haimei Zheng/Berkeley Lab) Ever since its discovery in 2004, graphene – an atomically thin material with amazing strength and electrical properties – has inspired …
Feature Story By Jessica Scully • October 24, 2019 Many of the systems that provide services or products we use daily, such as the electrical grid, oil and gas pipelines, vehicles, and manufacturing plants, are examples of cyberphysical systems – systems …
By Jessica Scully Researchers at Berkeley Lab are using high-performance computing systems to better predict how structures will respond to an earthquake along one of the Bay Area’s most dangerous faults. Berkeley Lab researcher David McCallen David …
Barbara Jacak (Credit: Berkeley Lab) Barbara Jacak, director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s Nuclear Science Division since 2015, has been named a 2019 Distinguished Scientist Fellow by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science. Jacak …
An illustration imagining the molecular machinery inside microbes as technology. (Credit: Wayne Keefe/Berkeley Lab) Secondary metabolites – the compounds produced by microbes to mediate internal and external messaging, self-defense, and chemical warfare – …
Science Snapshots By Linda Vu • October 10, 2019 (Credit: iStock) Buildings currently consume about 40% of all the electricity used in the United States, most of them located in urban areas that are growing rapidly. Because electricity generation is the …
In this type of moiré superlattice, the atoms in each layer are arranged in hexagons. (Credit: Tschub/Shutterstock) As reported in Nature Physics, a Berkeley Lab-led team of physicists and materials scientists were the first to unambiguously observe and …
Science Snapshots By Emily Scott • October 10, 2019 Berkeley Lab scientists Ning Sun (left) and Jipeng Yan, co-authors of a new study on converting waste to biofuel precursors, at the Advanced Biofuels and Bioproducts Process Development Unit. (Credit: …
Research by the DOE Watershed Function SFA project team takes place year-round in a research area along the East River catchment near the Upper Colorado River headwaters. One of the busiest times for sampling is during peak snow. (Photo courtesy Watershed …
Polly Arnold, Berkeley Lab Chemical Sciences Division Director (Photo courtesy of Polly Arnold) Prominent heavy-element chemist Polly Arnold has been elected a member of Academia Europaea. Her research focuses on advancing our understanding of the bonding …
The National Alliance for Water Innovation, which is led by the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), has been awarded a five-year, $100-million Energy-Water Desalination Hub by DOE (pending appropriations) to address …
Berkeley Lab researchers have been assembling components for an upgrade of the ALICE particle collider experiment’s detector array at CERN laboratory. Learn about their work and how it could help to unravel the inner workings of an exotic state of matter …
Anticipated FABRIC topology at the end of construction. The National Science Foundation (NSF) is funding a collaborative effort to create a nationwide research infrastructure that will enable the computer science and networking community to develop and …
A diagram of the layout and major features of the KATRIN experimental facility at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. (Credit: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) Note: This press release was adapted from an original release published by the University …
Rebecca Abergel leads the BioActinide Chemistry Group in Berkeley Lab’s Chemical Sciences Division. (Credit: Marilyn Chung/Berkeley Lab) When chemist Rebecca Abergel and her team at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ( …
Science Snapshots By Aliyah Kovner • September 12, 2019 The team’s electrochemical cell for observing solar fuel-generating catalysts (yellow device), set up at an x-ray beamline at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource. (Credit: Walter Drisdell/ …
Science Snapshots By Aliyah Kovner • September 12, 2019 The findings came from an analysis of 1,773 human-associated metagenomes sampled from four different body sites. (Credit: Tsvetkov Maxim/Shutterstock) A study aimed at identifying and examining the …
A Pretomanid pill. The drug was developed by the nonprofit TB Alliance. (Credit: TB Alliance) The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a new antibiotic that, in combination with two existing antibiotics, can tackle one of the most formidable and …
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