Berkeley Lab researchers Francesca Toma (left) and Johanna Eichhorn used a photoconductive atomic force microscope to better understand materials for artificial photosynthesis. (Credit: Marilyn Chung/Berkeley Lab) In the quest to realize artificial …
A worker inspects the titanium cryostat for the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment in a clean room. (Credit: Matt Kapust/SURF) Note: This article is adapted from a press release by the U.K. Science and Technology Facilities Council. A large titanium cryostat designed …
In this artistic composition, based on a real image of the IceCube Lab at the South Pole, a distant source (top right) emits neutrinos that are detected below the ice by IceCube sensors, called digital optical modules (DOMs). (Credit: IceCube/NSF) Note: …
Simulated radiation hotspots in an urban area. (Credit: Oak Ridge National Laboratory) Competing in a fictitious high-stakes scenario, a group of scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) bested two dozen …
Berkeley Lab research scientist Erica Woodburn is developing a new modeling technique that employs a remote sensing technology to understand the effects of climate change on California’s water supply. (Credit: Marilyn Chung/Berkeley Lab) Erica Woodburn …
Images resulting from recent simulations at NERSC show the distribution of ground motion intensity across the San Francisco Bay Area region 10 seconds after a large-magnitude earthquake along the Hayward Fault. (Credit: Berkeley Lab) – By Christina …
(Click for larger view.) A screenshot of image-based results in the Science Search interface. In this case, the user performed an image search for nanoparticles. (Credit: Gonzalo Rodrigo/Berkeley Lab) As scientific datasets increase in both size and …
Sebastian Palluk (left) and Daniel Arlow of the Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) have pioneered a new way to synthesize DNA sequences. (Credit: Marilyn Chung/Berkeley Lab) In the rapidly growing field of synthetic biology, in which organisms can be …
The top row shows electron phase, the second row shows magnetic induction, and the bottom row shows schematics for the simulated phase of different magnetic domain features in multilayer material samples. The first column is for a symmetric thin-film …
The high-stability, high-resolution Thermo Fischer “ThemIS” transmission electron microscope. (Credit: Marilyn Chung/Berkeley Lab) By Laurie Chong Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) now have …
About $20 billion worth of energy leaks out of windows in the United States each winter – and that’s with double-paned insulating windows installed on a majority of buildings. The Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) …
Members of the Berkeley Lab ATLAS group who worked on the analyses related to the observation of Higgs boson production in association with top quarks (top, from left to right): Heather Gray, Haichen Wang, Jennet Dickinson, Hongtao Yang, Fabio Cerutti, and …
In this illustration, the grid in the background represents the computational lattice that theoretical physicists used to calculate a particle property known as nucleon axial coupling. This property determines how a W boson (white wavy line) interacts with …
A new approach developed by Zak Costello (left) and Hector Garcia Martin brings the the speed and analytic power of machine learning to bioengineering. (Credit: Marilyn Chung, Berkeley Lab) Scientists from the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley …
Andreas Schmid, left, and Gong Chen are pictured here with the spin-polarized low-energy electron microscopy (SPLEEM) instrument at Berkeley Lab. The insturment was integral to measurements of ultrathin samples that included graphene and magnetic materials …
VIDEO: A recap of the Berkeley Lab Physics Photowalk. (Credit: Marilyn Chung/Berkeley Lab) Dozens of photographers visited the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) on Wednesday, May 16 – coinciding with the …
Microscopic images of diamond particles with nitrogen-vacancy defects. These samples, which exhibit a truncated octahedral shape, were used in experiments that sought new ways to tune and control an electronic property known as spin polarization. The scale …
-By Massie Santos Ballon In the air, beneath the ocean’s surface, and on land, microbes are the minute but mighty forces regulating much of the planet’s biogeochemical cycles. To better understand their roles, scientists work to identify these microbes and …
In this simulation, an electron beam (blue circles) passes through a mixture of hydrogen and xenon gases that it ionizes, transforming the mixture into a plasma of protons, xenon ions, and electrons. The electron beam’s self-field expels the plasma …
Four scientists affiliated with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) are among the group of 84 new members elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS); all three are also professors at UC Berkeley. Also …
