A view of the San Francisco Bay from Berkeley Lab on Nov. 14 (left) and three weeks ago. (Credit: Kelly J. Owen) Brett Singer and Woody Delp are internationally recognized experts in the field of indoor air quality. Singer is a Principal Investigator and …
New supercomputer simulations by climate scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have shown that climate change intensified the amount of rainfall in recent hurricanes such as Katrina, Irma, and Maria …
This image shows a rendering (gray and pink) of the molecular structure of a peptoid polymer that was studied by a team led by Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley. The successful imaging of a polymer’s atomic-scale structure could inform new designs for plastics …
Grab some popcorn: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) scientists have succeeded in capturing a more detailed picture than ever of the steps in the reaction mechanisms in photosynthesis, the process by which plants use sunlight to split …
A rendering of GRETA, the Gamma-Ray Energy Tracking Array. (Credit: Berkeley Lab) A new high-resolution gamma-ray detector system – designed to reveal new details about the structure and inner workings of atomic nuclei, and to elevate our understanding of …
In this illustration, the grid in the background represents the computational lattice that theoretical physicists used to calculate a particle property known as nucleon axial coupling. This property determines how a W boson (white wavy line) interacts with …
Saul Perlmutter The U.S. Department of Energy announced today that the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has signed a $146 million contract with Cray for the facility’s next-generation …
BELLA, the Berkeley Lab Laser Accelerator (Credit: Roy Kaltschmidt/Berkeley Lab) To help foster the broad applicability of high-intensity lasers, the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) is a partner in a new …
Moss evolved after algae but before vascular land plants, such as ferns and trees, making them an interesting target for scientists studying photosynthesis, the process by which plants convert sunlight to fuel. Now researchers at the Department of Energy’s …
Climate scientists have not been properly accounting for what plants do at night, and that, it turns out, is a mistake. A new study from the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has found that plant nutrient uptake in …
In the quest for abundant, renewable alternatives to fossil fuels, scientists have sought to harvest the sun’s energy through “water splitting,” an artificial photosynthesis technique that uses sunlight to generate hydrogen fuel from water. But water- …
(Credit: iStock.com/timoph) Applying artificial intelligence to self-driving cars to smooth traffic, reduce fuel consumption, and improve air quality predictions may sound like the stuff of science fiction, but researchers at the Department of Energy’s …
Sean Peisert – a cybersecurity expert and staff scientist in Berkeley Lab’s Computational Research Division – is one of thousands of DOE scientists who have dedicated their careers to finding the best solutions to some of our nation’s biggest problems. ( …
(Credit: Marilyn Chung/Berkeley Lab) How do you create the largest 3D map of the universe? It’s as easy as teaching 5,000 robots how to “dance.” DESI, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, is an experiment that will target millions of distant …
Sally Shaw, a UC Santa Barbara postdoctoral researcher, stands beside a 12-foot-tall acrylic tank at a manufacturing site in Colorado. The tank was built for the LUX-ZEPLIN dark matter search experiment now under construction in Lead, South Dakota. (Credit …
Juliane Mueller, a research scientist in the Computational Research Division, is developing an “optimization algorithm” toolset that pinpoints which variables of a “black box” simulation model will churn out the most realistic data in less time. Her work …
As part of the Watershed Function Scientific Focus Area (SFA) Berkeley Lab researchers are studying how disturbances to mountainous watersheds impact the downstream delivery of water, nutrients, carbon, and metals, at the East River basin in Colorado. ( …
(Credit: iStock/Freeartist) By Christina Nunez A color developed by Egyptians thousands of years ago has a modern-day application as well – the pigment can boost energy efficiency by cooling rooftops and walls, and could also enable solar generation of …
The atmospheric haze of Titan, Saturn’s largest moon (pictured here along Saturn’s midsection), is captured in this natural-color image (box at left). A study that involved experiments at Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source has provided new clues about …
– by Christina Procopiou Scientists investigating how human-induced increases in atmospheric methane also increase the amount of solar energy absorbed by that gas in our climate system have discovered that this absorption is 10 times stronger over desert …
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