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 …
Berkeley Lab scientist Iain Walker (Credit: Thor Swift/Berkeley Lab) Heat waves are becoming a more regular occurrence across the country. Iain Walker, Leader of the Residential Building Systems Group at Berkeley Lab, has suggestions for how to weather …
These four Daya Bay detectors are submerged in a pool of ultrapure water that helps to shield against naturally occurring radiation. (Photo by Roy Kaltschmidt/Berkeley Lab) Note: This press release is adapted from the original press releases issued by the …
Ernest Lawrence in Canton, South Dakota, in 1913. Lawrence attended Canton High School and received a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from the University of South Dakota in 1922 before leaving the state for postgraduate studies. (Photo courtesy of Berkeley …
Science Snapshots By Kiran Julin • August 10, 2020 Berkeley Lab researcher Bin Wang (Credit: Thor Swift/Berkeley Lab) As the rate of electric vehicle (EV) adoption in the U.S. rises, the transportation sector will put additional pressure on the power grid. …
Science Snapshots By Barbra Rodriguez • August 10, 2020 A new study by researchers from the Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division at Berkeley Lab has shown that a tropical weather pattern will bring a 50% increase in winter rainfall variability to …
