A photomultiplier tube array that is part of the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, South Dakota. The photomultiplier tubes are designed to detect signals produced by dark matter particle interactions. (Credit: …
Robert Besuner, DESI project manager and a Berkeley Lab affiliate who is an engineer at UC Berkeley’s Space Sciences Laboratory, has found ways to contribute to the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) project – which is on a mountaintop near Tucson …
Artistic illustration of a carbon nanotube COVID-19 detector. (Courtesy of: Zettl Research Group/Berkeley Lab) A technology spun from carbon nanotube sensors discovered 20 years ago by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) scientists could …
Berkeley Lab researchers have launched a project to determine if the novel coronavirus might be seasonal, waning in summer months and resurging in fall and winter. (Credit: Ivan Marc/Shutterstock) One of the many unanswered scientific questions about COVID …
This transmission electron microscope image shows SARS-CoV-2 – the virus that causes COVID-19 – isolated from a patient in the U.S. The protrusions visible on the outside are the spike proteins that the virus particles use to fuse with and gain entry to …
Berkeley Lab staff (from left) David Richardson, Rosanne Boudreau, and James Singzon are making it possible for scientists to conduct research related to COVID-19. (Credit: Berkeley Lab) David Richardson’s job is literally to make sure the light stays on. …
This Hubble Space Telescope image shows a gravitational lens (center) that was first identified as a lens candidate with the assistance of a neural network that processed ground-based space images. The lens is artificially colorized and circled in this …
Illustration of plasmon waves created by an ultrafast laser coupled to an atomic force microscopy tip. The plasmon waves are shown as concentric red and blue rings moving slowly across an atomically thin layer of tantalum disulfide. (Felipe da Jornada/ …
FLEXLAB(R), the world’s most advanced building simulator and testbed, will be used to simulate office and school heating, ventilation, and air conditioning configurations. (Credit: Berkeley Lab) As society prepares to reopen indoor spaces and ease back …
Laura Marini, a postdoctoral researcher at UC Berkeley and a Berkeley Lab affiliate who serves as a run coordinator for the underground CUORE experiment, shares her experiences of working on CUORE and living near Gran Sasso during the COVID-19 pandemic. ( …
Materials Project Director Kristin Persson. (Credit: Roy Kaltschmidt/Berkeley Lab) Kristin Persson is at the helm of a materials revolution. Since 2011, she has led the Materials Project, an open-access online database that virtually delivers the largest …
This image was produced by a simulation showing the evolution of dark matter in the universe. (Credit: Milennium-II Simulation) Dark matter has so far defied every type of detector designed to find it. Because of its huge gravitational footprint in space, …
James Hurley, left, and F. Dean Toste. (Credit: UC Berkeley) Two Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) scientists have been elected into the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements …
Two Berkeley Lab scientists and a visiting scientist are among the newest elected members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences – a 240-year-old honorary society that recognizes accomplished scholars, scientists and artists in academia, the …
Nathan Johnson/PNNL This release also appears on the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory news site —By Melissae Fellet A new study is among the first to trace the molecular connections between genetics, the gut microbiome, and memory in a mouse model …
Ramamoorthy Ramesh has been elected as a foreign member of the Royal Society. Ramamoorthy Ramesh, senior faculty scientist in the Materials Sciences Division of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and …
Berkeley Lab researchers (clockwise from top left) Kristin Persson, John Dagdelen, Gerbrand Ceder, and Amalie Trewartha led development of COVIDScholar, a text-mining tool for COVID-19-related scientific literature. (Credit: Berkeley Lab) A team of …
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) is part of a multi-laboratory working group that recently received DOE Office of Science funding under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) …
Illustration of a charging battery. (Credit: MarySan/Shutterstock.com) From next-gen smartphones to longer-range electric cars and an improved power grid, better batteries are driving tech innovation. And to push batteries beyond their present-day …
The domed Advanced Light Source (ALS) building at Berkeley Lab, and the nearby UC Berkeley campus, are visible in this drone photo taken in March 2020. The ALS has reopened to carry out COVID-19-related experiments. (Credit: Thor Swift, Marilyn Sargent/ …
