Many of the common items we use in our everyday lives – from building materials to plastics to pharmaceuticals – are manufactured from fossil fuels. To reduce our reliance on fossil fuels and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, society has increasingly tried …
Berkeley Lab scientists and collaborators took advantage of one of the best microscopes in the world – the TEAM I electron microscope at the Molecular Foundry – to watch how individual gold atoms organized themselves into crystals on top of graphene. The …
Scientists at Berkeley Lab’s predecessor, the UC Radiation Laboratory, discovered berkelium in 1949, and californium in 1950. Today, Berkeley Lab scientists are using state-of-the-art instruments at the Molecular Foundry to better understand how actinides …
A new study has found that a share of particles that has been challenging to locate is most likely sprinkled across the distant bounds of groups of galaxy halos. The study found some of these particles of baryonic matter are located up to 6 million light- …
Electric long-haul trucks and fast-charging infrastructure offer a way towards zero-emissions commercial trucks. (Credit: Chesky_W/iStock) By Kiran Julin When it comes to electric vehicles, particularly for heavy-duty trucks, the limitations of battery …
A world cloud generated from the titles of more than 17,000 diverse structural biology papers that cite Phenix. (Credit: Berkeley Lab) It’s fair to say that before the COVID-19 pandemic, very few non-scientists could name a viral protein. But now, millions …
The High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) Accelerator Upgrade Project magnets use conductors made of niobium-tin to generate a stronger magnetic field compared to predecessor technology. These world-record-setting magnets will have their debut in …
These maps show radiation dose rates in the Fukushima evacuation zone and former evacuation zone over time. At left is data from 2014, at middle is data from 2015, and at right is data from 2016. There is a visible reduction in the areas with higher dose …
Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source at sunset. (Credit: Thor Swift/Berkeley Lab) The U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) supports more than 10,000 jobs in the Bay Area and nearly 20,000 jobs across the country …
Mapping nuclear phase changes is like studying how water changes under different conditions of temperature and pressure. Collisions at Brookhaven Lab’s RHIC’s collisions “melt” protons and neutrons to create quark-gluon plasma (QGP). Physicists are …
Schematic of multiplexed antennas emitting coherent light. The technology could overcome current data capacity limits. (Courtesy of Kanté Group, UC Berkeley) Adapted from UC Berkeley news release by Sarah Yang Researchers at Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley …
This illustration shows the two main forms of disruptive protein clumps found in the brains of people with Alzheimer’s disease: beta-amyloid plaques (seen in brown) that collect between neurons and disrupt cell function, and tau protein tangles (seen in …
A pair of Berkeley Lab reports analyzes the direct and indirect costs of major power outages. (Credit: iStock) Little is known about the full impact of widespread, long duration power interruptions, especially the indirect costs and related economy-wide …
This scanning electron microscope image shows SARS-CoV-2 emerging from the surface of cells (blue/pink) cultured in the lab. (Credit: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases-Rocky Mountain Laboratories, NIH) As the COVID-19 pandemic enters …
A conceptual drawing of the COSMIC microscope, with X-rays shown in purple. All equipment is mounted to a central cylinder. The zone plate, a type of X-ray optic, is scanned relative to this cylinder while the sample is held stationary. The instrument …
Imaging of the same spot shows that cracks eventually self-heal, an important trademark that maintains the integrity of structured liquids. Real-time video of 70 nm nanoparticles (red) and 500 nanometer nanoparticles (green) captured via laser scanning …
Berkeley Lab is pursuing a portfolio of negative emissions technologies and related research to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. (Credit: Gary Whitton/Shutterstock) Human activity is now leading to the equivalent of 40 billion tons of carbon …
CERN’s ATLAS detector undergoes upgrades in 2020 in preparation for its next round of particle physics experiments, scheduled to begin in 2022. (Credit: CERN) In physicists’ ongoing search for new particles, it’s always easiest to find them when you have …
This half-meter-long prototype of a niobium-tin superconducting undulator magnet was designed and built by a team from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley, Argonne, and Fermi national laboratories. The next step will be to build a meter-long …
This BELLA HTT laser system enables multipulse, high-energy-density photon sources for LaserNetUS and other experiments. (Credit: Berkeley Lab) The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Committee (FESAC) has adopted and endorsed …
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