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: …
Spencer Klein at the geographic South Pole in 2006. (Photo courtesy of Spencer Klein/Berkeley Lab) Dozens of scientists and engineers across multiple divisions at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) played a role …
Kate Greene and Anastasios Karnazes at Berkeley Lab’s 88-Inch Cyclotron. (Credit: Kelly J. Owen/Berkeley Lab) Two poets walk into an 88-Inch Cyclotron … and what happens next is an uncommon pairing of accelerated particles and artistic expression. The …
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 …
The Fermilab NOvA neutrino experiment announced that it has seen strong evidence of muon antineutrinos oscillating into electron antineutrinos over long distances, a phenomenon that has never been unambiguously observed. (Credit: Sandbox Studio) Note: This …
On May 16, Berkeley Lab hosted a Physics Photowalk as part of a Global Physics Photowalk photo competition. A group of visiting photographers, both professional and amateur, toured several science facilities at Berkeley Lab. Participants then submitted …
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 …
Visualization of a bacterial cell (top) converting the chemical energy of organic molecules to electrons that are transferred to an inorganic tin oxide catalyst (bottom) via molecular wires embedded in an ultrathin silica layer (middle). The proton …
Six scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have been selected by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Science to receive significant funding for research through its Early Career Research Program. The program, now …
(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 …
At left, a tiny bead struck by a laser (at the yellowish spot shown at the top of the image) produces optical modes that circulate around the interior of the bead (pinkish ring). At right, a simulation of how the optical field inside a 5-micron (5 …
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 …
A collaboration among several U.S. national laboratories has been working on superconducting magnets that will be integral to a planned high-luminosity upgrade for CERN’s Large Hadron Collider. (Credit: Reidar Hahn/Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory) …
This energy dispersive X-ray spectrometry (EDS) map of tiny glassy grains (blue with green specks) inside a cometary-type interplanetary dust particle was produced using the FEI TitanX microscope at Berkeley Lab’s Molecular Foundry. Carbonaceous material ( …
Artist’s rendering of a large meteorite impact on Earth. (Credit: NASA) From moon rocks to meteorites, and from space dust to a dinosaur-destroying impact, the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has a well-storied …
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 …
