Note: This press release is adapted from the original release by SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. View the original release. –By Glennda Chui/SLAC This movie introduces LCLS-II, a future X-ray light source. It will generate over 8,000 times more light …
Berkeley Lab scientists are using powerful X-rays at the Advanced Light Source to study how gas mask filters handle chemical warfare agents. The work could eventually lead to more advanced gas masks for both military and civilian applications. (Video …
Shan Dou (from left), Jonathan Ajo-Franklin, and Nate Lindsey were on a Berkeley Lab team that used fiber optic cables for detecting earthquakes and other subsurface activity. (Credit: Marilyn Chung/Berkeley Lab) Scientists at the Department of Energy’s …
Stripes can be found everywhere, from zebras roaming in the wild to the latest fashion statement. In the world of microscopic physics, periodic stripe patterns can be formed by electrons within so-called quantum materials. Illustration of an ultrashort …
BERKELEY, CA / ARGONNE, IL – A team of Department of Energy (DOE) scientists at the Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR) has discovered the fastest magnesium-ion solid-state conductor, a major step towards making solid-state magnesium-ion …
Sandra Miarecki boards a T-38 Talon aircraft during her time as a U.S. Air Force pilot. (Photo courtesy of Sandra Miarecki) In a previous career, Sandra Miarecki flew high above the Earth’s surface. During a 20-year career in the U.S. Air Force that …
IceCube has measured for the first time the probability that neutrinos are absorbed by Earth as a function of their energy and the amount of matter that they go through. This measurement of the neutrino cross section using Earth absorption has confirmed …
Note: This report was adapted from a University of Toronto press release. View the original release. –By Tyler Irving Researchers have created a new catalyst that brings them one step closer to artificial photosynthesis — a system that would use renewable …
Technologies that help determine how solar energy affects the grid, benchmark energy savings for low-carbon cities, understand the functions of genes in microbes under different environmental conditions, and simulate how chemical reactions occur and change …
Two scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) – Michael Barnett, a senior physicist and educator; and Ronald C. Cohen, a climate and air quality researcher – have been named as Fellows of the American …
Berkeley Lab researchers, including Michelle Newcomer (right), are collaborating with USGS and the Sonoma County Water Agency to study how the water resources respond to extreme events such as fire. (Photos courtesy Michelle Newcomer) Scientists at the …
Shown is a structure of the first three subunits of an inflammasome, which consists of the NAIP5 and NLRC4 immune proteins, captured using cryo-electron microscopy. The NAIP5 subunit of the inflammasome is bound to flagellin (shown in light purple), a …
Scientists studied the microstructure of the coral-chomping teeth of the steephead parrotfish, pictured here, to learn about the fish’s powerful bite. (Credit: Alex The Reef Fish Geek/Nautilus Scuba Club, Cairns, Australia) So, you thought the fictional …
A new study led by researchers at the Department of Energy’s Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI), based at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), demonstrates the importance of microbial communities as a source of stable enzymes that could be …
This animated 3-D rendering (view larger size), generated by an X-ray-based imaging technique at Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source, shows tiny pockets of water (blue) in a fibrous sample. The X-ray experiments showed how moisture and temperature can …
An artist’s impression a supernova. (Credit: NASA/ESA/G. Bacon, STScI) Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley scientists were part of a team that helped to decipher one of the most bizarre spectacles ever seen in the night sky: A supernova that refused to stop …
The BaBar detector at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. (Credit: SLAC) In its final years of operation, a particle collider in Northern California was refocused to search for signs of new particles that might help fill in some big blanks in our …
A new discovery by researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), UC Berkeley and UC Riverside could lead to non-volatile, energy-efficient computer memory without sacrificing speed. In this schematic of a magnetic memory array, an …
From left, Berkeley Lab researchers Eric Dubinsky, Shi Wang (on left), and Neslihan Tas contributed to the Earth Microbiome Project. In the Earth Microbiome Project, an extensive global team collected more than 27,000 samples from numerous, diverse …
Today’s lithium-ion battery was invented so long ago, there are not many more efficiencies to wring out of it. Now researchers at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) report major progress in cathodes made with so …
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