Science Snapshots • December 23, 2019 In this cross-sectional map of the rod-shaped crystals that make up human tooth enamel, different colors indicate different crystal orientations. (Credit: Pupa Gilbert/University of Wisconsin) Adult teeth can last a …
Illustration of peptoid combinations. Each of the metal-binding monomers is represented as a red or blue “claw.” Credit: Rebecca Abergel/Berkeley Lab A team of scientists led by Berkeley Lab has developed a library of artificial proteins or “peptoids” that …
‘Twas a night in St Petersburg, when all through the house Not a beaker was stirring, and the burners were doused. The acids and bases were corked up with care, Awaiting tomorrow’s experiments in pristine glassware. The lab assistants were nestled all …
A nationwide alliance of national labs, universities, and industry launched today to advance the frontiers of quantum computing systems designed to solve urgent scientific challenges and maintain U.S. leadership in next-generation information technology. …
The breadth of science conducted by researchers at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) is vast, spanning from fundamental questions about the nature of the universe to solutions for saving energy in our homes and …
At left, natural diamonds glow under ultraviolet light owing to their various nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers. At right, a schematic depicting the diamond anvils in action, with NV centers in the bottom anvil. The NV sensors glow a brilliant shade of red …
Artist’s illustration of two merging neutron stars. The rippling space-time grid represents gravitational waves that travel out from the collision, while the narrow beams show the bursts of gamma rays that are shot out just seconds after the gravitational …
Berkeley Lab battery researcher Gerbrand Ceder (Credit: Roy Kaltschmidt/Berkeley Lab) Lithium ion is probably the most advanced technology available for the packs of rechargeable batteries you’ll buy this holiday season. The batteries also power the vast …
Berkeley Lab scientists employed cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM) to reveal the atomic structure of peptoid nanosheets. Their use of cryo-EM allowed them to visualize distinct bromine atoms (magenta) in the peptoid’s side chains. (Credit: Berkeley …
Berkeley Lab bioscientists Nomi Harris and Chris Mungall at the Aquatic Park Office. (Credit: Laurent-Philippe Albou/Berkeley Lab) Rare diseases are … rare, right? Not as rare as you might think. As much as 10% of the population is thought to have a “rare …
Researchers employed 20 kilometers (pink) of a 51-kilometer undersea fiber-optic cable, normally used to communicate with an off-shore science node (MARS, Monterey Accelerated Research System), as a seismic array to study the fault zones under Monterey Bay …
Infrared light is focused onto the sharp metallic tip of an atomic force microscope, enabling the acquisition of vibrational spectra from a graphene-liquid interface. (Credit: Artem Baskin, Jonathon Larson/Berkeley Lab) How a liquid interacts with the …
A unique neural network architecture called mmvec (microbe-metabolite vectors) has made it possible to accurately infer the interactions between the microbes that are present in a community and the metabolites they produce. (Credit: iStock/spawns) …
Six scientists from the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have been named Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Election as a AAAS Fellow is an honor bestowed upon AAAS members …
News Release By Kiran Julin • November 25, 2019 Following an international search, Robert Kostecki has been appointed director of the Energy Storage and Distributed Resources (ESDR) Division in the Energy Technologies Area (ETA) at the Department of Energy …
Erika Suzuki Erika Suzuki of the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), tied for first place in a September competition that featured technology pitches to an audience that included tech-transfer experts and investors. …
Scanning tunneling microscopy image of an oxygen substituting sulfur (left) and sulfur vacancy (right) in tungsten disulfide. (Credit: Berkeley Lab) Like any material, atomically thin, 2D semiconductors known as TMDs or transition metal dichalcogenides are …
Katherine Yelick has been honored by HPCwire as their Editor’s Choice for Outstanding Leadership in high-performance computing (HPC). (Photo courtesy of Berkeley Lab Computing Sciences) Katherine Yelick, the associate laboratory director for Computing …
Berkeley Lab climate scientists studied how the Hadley cell, a tropical air flow closely linked to monsoons, will change as the climate warms. (Credit: iStockphoto) More than a billion people in Asia depend on seasonal monsoons for their water needs. The …
Two researchers from Cairo University in Egypt brought 32 bone samples and two soil samples to study using X-ray and infrared light-based techniques at Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source (ALS). This video shows the Cairo University and ALS scientists at …
