Safely Studying Dangerous Infections – Like COVID – Just Got a Lot Easier
An extremely fast new 3D imaging method can show how cells respond to infection and to possible treatments. To combat a pandemic, science needs to…
An extremely fast new 3D imaging method can show how cells respond to infection and to possible treatments. To combat a pandemic, science needs to…
Researchers have enhanced an artificial photosynthesis device that converts sunlight and CO2 into renewable fuels. A research team has developed a new artificial photosynthesis device…
Scientists are developing microchips with advanced materials like carbon nanotubes and multiferroics to increase performance and reduce energy consumption. These technologies could lead to new…
Advanced algorithms plus an exceptional X-ray laser can reveal the structures of not-so-neat-and-tidy materials unattainable by other techniques. The development of smSFX, an advanced form…
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) has set new records in three-dimensional galaxy surveys during the first seven months of its mission, with an ambition…
Scientists have introduced liquibots, tiny self-powered robots that operate continuously in a solution, transporting chemicals without needing electricity, driven by chemical reactions that provide the…
Berkeley Lab research efforts in advanced materials and cost analyses give major boost to an overlooked technology. Could a tank of ice or hot water…
Technique Tunes Into Graphene Nanoribbons’ Electronic Potential Ever since graphene – a thin carbon sheet just one-atom thick – was discovered more than 15 years…
Breakthrough regulates household temperature without consuming natural gas or electricity. Scientists have developed an all-season smart-roof coating that keeps homes warm during the winter and…
Plants Buy Us Time to Slow Climate Change – But Not Enough to Stop It New research from Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley shows that…
Sizing Up the Challenges in Extracting Lithium From Geothermal Brine Berkeley Lab scientists assess the technology landscape for developing a domestic source of lithium. If…
Berkeley Lab study shows how battery-electric trains can deliver environmental justice, cost-savings, and resilience to the U.S. Trains have been on the sidelines of electrification…
Breakthrough demonstrates solid state of electrons predicted more than 90 years ago. More than 90 years ago, physicist Eugene Wigner predicted that at low densities…
With mountain snowpacks shrinking in the western US, new Berkeley Lab study analyzes when a low-to-no-snow future might arrive and implications for water management. Mountain…
Berkeley Lab-led research key to next-gen quantum computing and technologies. In 1998, researchers including Mark Kubinec of UC Berkeley performed one of the first simple…
An unexpected finding by scientists at Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley could advance quantum computers and high-temperature superconductors. Scientists have taken the clearest picture yet…
An antibody therapy that appears to neutralize all known SARS-CoV-2 strains, and other coronaviruses, was developed with a little help from structural biologist Jay Nix….
First-ever “bedrock-to-atmosphere” observation system could allow scientists to predict the future of water availability in the West. The “megadrought” impacting the Colorado River system this…