Illustration of the 2D boron nitride substrate with imperfections that host tiny nickel clusters. The catalyst aids the chemical reaction that removes hydrogen from liquid chemical carriers, making it available for use as a fuel. (Credit: Jeff Urban/ …
Katherine Shield (from left), Dahlia An, and Tyler Bailey are part of a research team that developed new methods for the large-scale production, purification, and use of the radioisotope cerium-134, which could serve as a tunable PET imaging surrogate for …
Photomultiplier tubes, designed to pick up faint light signals from particle interactions, line the inside of a detector for the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino experiment. (Credit: Roy Kaltschidt/Berkeley Lab) The Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment …
Scientists are continually searching for new and improved ways to deal with bacteria, be it to eliminate disease-causing strains or to modify potentially beneficial strains. And despite the numerous clever drugs and genetic engineering tools humans have …
In the fight against COVID-19, scientists at Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley are developing an N95 quality-assessment test; a rechargeable, reusable, anti-COVID N95 mask; and a 3D-printable silicon-cast mask mold. (Credit: Alexander Kirch/Shutterstock) In the …
A collection of images from past, present, and pending neutrino science experiments, including: Daya Bay, DUNE at LBNF, the Homestake experiment, IceCube, KamLAND, ProtoDUNE and SNO. Displayed in the background is the typed text of a letter that physicist …
Controlling light-matter interactions is central to a variety of important applications, such as quantum dots, which can be used as light emitters and sensors. (Credit: PlasmaChem) Understanding how matter interacts with light – its optical properties – is …
The CUORE detector array, shown here in this rendering, is formed by 19 copper-framed “towers” that each house a matrix of 52 cube-shaped crystals. (Credit: CUORE Collaboration) Surrounded by lead and also shielded by nearly a mile of rock from the natural …
Berkeley Lab’s eight 2020 AAAS Fellows (clockwise, from upper left to lower left): Wibe A. “Bert” de Jong, Spencer R. Klein, Sanjay Kumar, Mary E. Maxon, Peidong Yang, Robert Oliver Ritchie, Len Pennacchio, Esmond G. Ng. The American Association for the …
Artist’s illustration of water molecules. A research team led by Berkeley Lab has designed a new crystalline material that targets and traps copper ions from wastewater with unprecedented precision and speed. (Credit: Sashkin/Shutterstock) We rely on water …
Methane-eating bacteria are found in extreme environments such as active geothermal hot springs. (Credit: Inger Eriksen/Shutterstock) Scientists have determined the structure of a unique enzyme, produced by a species of methane-eating bacteria, that …
STEM (scanning transmission electron microscopy) image of a one-dimensional array of F4TCNQ molecules (yellow-orange) on a gate-tunable graphene device. (Credit: Berkeley Lab) Small electronic circuits power our everyday lives, from the tiny cameras in our …
Artistic interpretation of how microbial genome sequences from the GEM catalog can help fill in gaps of knowledge about the microbes that play key roles in the Earth’s microbiomes. (Credit: Zosia Rostomian/Berkeley Lab) Despite advances in sequencing …
Study authors (from left to right) Andrew K. Lau, Thomas Eng, and Deepanwita Banerjee stand in front of a two-liter bioreactor containing E. coli cells that are producing indigoidine, which causes the strong dark blue color of the liquid. This photo was …
Solar panels in a Richmond, California neighborhood. (Credit: Google Streetview) As rooftop solar prices have fallen, many households at all income levels can now save money by going solar. Nonetheless, low- and moderate-income households remain less …
A wheel-shaped muon detector is part of an ATLAS particle detector upgrade at CERN. A new study applies “unfolding,” or error-correction techniques used for particle detectors, to problems with noise in quantum computing. (Credit: Julien Marius Ordan/CERN) …
This set of renderings shows the completed GRETA array (top and bottom left) and half of the completed array (right). The detector is designed to open up, with each half sliding on tracks. Samples can be placed at the center of the spherical array. The …
Sinead Griffin, a staff scientist in Berkeley Lab’s Materials Sciences Division and Molecular Foundry, has devoted much of her career to designing a new detector material that could help find “light” dark matter. (Credit: Thor Swift/Berkeley Lab) Every …
Berkeley Lab’s BELLA Center houses the BELLA petawatt laser, shown here, and a 100-terawatt-class laser. (Credit: Roy Kaltschmidt/Berkeley Lab) Note: This release was adapted from an original release prepared by the U.S. Department of Energy. View the …
This 3D rendering, created from computed tomography scans of the midsection region of the diabolical ironclad beetle, was produced with X-rays at Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source. This region, known as the medial suture, is where the two halves of the …
