At the February workshop organized by the National Microbiome Data Collaborative, the MOU creating the Tri-institutional Partnership for Microbiome Research was formally signed. From L to R in foreground: Keith Yamamoto and Sam Hawgood (UCSF); Fred Myers ( …
Francesca Toma (right) and Johanna Eichhorn developed a special technique using an atomic force microscope at Berkeley Lab’s JCAP laboratory to capture images of thin-film bismuth vanadate at the nanoscale to understand how a material’s properties can …
An artistic representation of gene regulating elements, which allow cells with the same genetic code to differentiate into many different tissues and play many varied roles in the body. (Credit: Ella Maru Studio) A 17-year research project has generated a …
Thermal mud pots at Controlled Thermal Resources’ project site at the Salton Sea. (Courtesy CTR) Deep beneath the surface of the Salton Sea, a shallow lake in California’s Imperial County, sits an immense reserve of critical metals that, if unlocked, could …
Kristin Persson (Credit: UC Berkeley) Kristin Persson, a senior faculty scientist in the Energy Storage & Distributed Resources Division within the Energy Technologies Area at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and director of the …
For the past several months, teams of scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have utilized our world-class research facilities to contribute to the national response to COVID-19, resulting in a …
Scientists at JCAP create new materials by spraying combinations of elements onto thin plates. (Image courtesy of Caltech) (Adapted from news release by Robert Perkins, Caltech) The quest for renewable fuels harvested from the sun continues, as the U.S. …
Researchers from the ATLAS collaboration, including Berkeley Lab’s Josh McFayden, explain their new measurement of “lepton flavour universality” – a unique property of the Standard Model of particle physics. (Credit: CERN) In particle physics, it’s the …
X-ray experiments at Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source helped scientists to establish that the parent planetesimal of rare meteorites, like the one shown here, had a molten core, a solid crust, and a magnetic field similar in strength to the Earth’s …
Researchers at Berkeley Lab and Carnegie Mellon University have designed new solid electrolytes that light the path to wider electrification of transportation. (Image courtesy of Jinsoo Kim) In the pursuit of a rechargeable battery that can power electric …
This video shows how a sequence of carefully designed springs works to counteract the magnetic forces in powerful magnetic devices known as hard X-ray undulator segments. The spring force must exactly match the manetic force in these segments to keep them …
A close-up of a piece of copper ore. (Credit: Coldmoon Photoproject/Shutterstock) They say it’s better to have had something special and lost it than to have never had it at all. Who would have thought that sentiment holds true for metal oxide catalysts? …
Natalie Roe Natalie Roe, who joined Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) as a postdoctoral fellow in 1989 and has served as Physics Division director since 2012, has been named the Lab’s Associate Laboratory Director (ALD) for the Physical …
(Credit: CDC and Garry Killian/Shutterstock) If you want to research historical events for a college essay, learn about tropical fish, or even translate text into a different language, you can type keywords into an internet search engine and get almost …
A collision of gold nuclei recorded by the Berkeley Lab-built Heavy Flavor Tracker (HFT), a component of the STAR detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). The white points show “hits” recorded by particles emerging from the collision as they …
The CUPID-Mo detector is installed in the Edelweiss cryostat at Modane Underground Laboratory (LSM) in France. (Credit: CUPID-Mo collaboration) Nuclear physicists affiliated with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ( …
Right: Animation of a Van Hove singularity (VHS) shown approximately 1 nanometer below the surface of an oxide heterostructure made of atomically thin layers of strontium titanate and samarium titanate. Left: Atomic composition of the oxide heterostructure …
Showing an inspiring knack for innovation under pressure, the global scientific community has developed promising tests and treatments for COVID-19 in the span of just a few months. But moving medical technologies from conception to deployment at such an …
Paul Alivisatos at Berkeley Lab’s Molecular Foundry. (Credit: Roy Kaltschmidt/Berkeley Lab) Paul Alivisatos, an internationally renowned chemist who holds joint appointments with the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley …
Even an underground experiment 4,600 feet below a mountain in Central Italy, and a telescope instrument more than a mile high atop an Arizona mountaintop could not escape the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. As the virus spread around the world, many …
