As global populations grow and water scarcity becomes an increasingly pressing issue, the number of desalination plants is growing. There are now more than 20,000 worldwide, and more than 300 million people around the world rely on desalination for some or …
(Credit: baona/iStock) Drilling a single oil or natural gas well with hydraulic fracturing requires between 1.5 to 16 million gallons of water. When the well starts flowing, the fluid that is brought back to the surface alongside the oil and gas is a …
Drone flying over a field. (Credit: valio84sl/iStock) Researchers with Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley just broke another record in thermophotovoltaic efficiency, an achievement that could lead to ultralight engines that can power drones for days. For the …
Scientists at Berkeley Lab have made a new material that is both liquid and magnetic, opening the door to a new area of science in magnetic soft matter. Their findings could lead to a revolutionary class of printable liquid devices for a variety of …
Schematic of graphene/boron nitride moire’ superlattice superconductor/insulator device: The heterostructure material is composed of three atomically thin (2D) layers of graphene (gray) sandwiched between 2D layers of boron nitride (red and blue) to form a …
(Credit: iStockphoto) Last week’s massive southern California earthquakes shut down Ridgecrest Regional Hospital throughout the July 4 holiday weekend while the tiny town of Ridgecrest assessed the damages. A new optical sensor developed at Lawrence …
The site of Simons Observatory in the Atacama Desert in Chile. (Credit: UC San Diego) The Simons Observatory, a Berkeley Lab-involved project under construction in Chile’s Atacama Desert that will measure the properties of universe’s early light – the …
Coating exterior walls with solar-reflective paints can lead to substantial energy savings in hot climates while curbing pollution, a Berkeley Lab study concludes. (Credit: iStock/YayaErnst) If these walls could talk, they might tell you that cutting …
PECASE recipients, from left to right: Jim Ciston, Jackie Gates, Lin Lin, Wenjun Zhang. (Credit: Berkeley Lab) Two scientists with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) are among 315 researchers named on July …
A multicolor mosaic image of the massive galaxy cluster, Abell 370, located in the constellation Cetus – named for a sea monster in Greek mythology. Galaxy clusters are the largest structures in the universe bound by gravity, and consist of thousands of …
(From left) Berkeley Lab researchers Vahe Tshitoyan, Anubhav Jain, Leigh Weston, and John Dagdelen used machine learning to analyze 3.3 million abstracts from materials science papers. (Credit: Marilyn Chung/Berkeley Lab) Sure, computers can be used to …
The Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) recently received federal approval to proceed with preliminary design work for a state-of-the-art building that would revolutionize investigations into how interactions among …
(Credit: Texas A&M AgriLife) A study published May 22 in the journal Nature notes the role of X-ray experiments at Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source (ALS) in detailing the structure of a grouping of amino acids that are part of an important …
A field of sorghum, a grain that is often used as a biomass crop for production of ethanol and butanol. (Credit: Marilyn Chung/Berkeley Lab) Adapted from an original release published by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Read the full story here …
Credit: Susan Brand and Marilyn Chung/Berkeley Lab Long ago, during the European Renaissance, Leonardo da Vinci wrote that we humans “know more about the movement of celestial bodies than about the soil underfoot.” Five hundred years and innumerable …
Lead researcher Aindrila Mukhopadhyay holds a vial of purified indigoidine crystals. (Credit: Marilyn Chung/Berkeley Lab) Often, the findings of fundamental scientific research are many steps away from a product that can be immediately brought to the …
Biosciences Area Associate Lab Director Mary Maxon caps off the Integrative Genomics Building dedication festivities by leading the ceremonial “snipping” of a double-helix-inspired ribbon. From left to right: Mary Maxon; Sean Simpson, CEO and co-founder of …
Nobumichi Tamura, a staff scientist at Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source (ALS), studies a rare crystal sample at ALS Beamline 12.3.2. An X-ray technique at this beamline was key in a study that helped to confirm the discovery of the mineral ognitite. ( …
A research team led by Ali Javey of Berkeley Lab has developed a practical method of brightening TMDCs for device applications without having to chemically treat the materials for defects. (Credit: Der-Hsien Lien et al./Berkeley Lab) Atomically thin …
(Credit: RapidEye/iStock) Scientists have long sought to mimic the process by which plants make their own fuel using sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water through artificial photosynthesis devices, but how exactly substances called catalysts work to generate …
