Microorganisms Can Help Us Get to Net Negative Emissions – Here’s How
A Q&A with Berkeley Lab scientist Eric Sundstrom on a technology to turn electrons to bioproducts. Many of the common items we use in our…
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A Sponge to Soak Up Carbon Dioxide From the Air
A Q&A with Berkeley Lab scientist Jeffrey Long on a material for capturing CO2. Human activity is now leading to the equivalent of 40 billion…
Next-Gen Information Technology: The Spintronics Revolution Could Be Just a Hopfion Away
Pioneering study co-led by Berkeley Lab has significance for next-gen information technologies. A decade ago, the discovery of quasiparticles called magnetic skyrmions provided important new…
Reality Is Almost Stranger Than Fiction: The Incredible Bacterial “Homing Missiles” That Scientists Want to Harness
A Berkeley Lab-led team is digging into the bizarre bacteria-produced nanomachines that could fast-track microbiome science. Imagine there are arrows that are lethal when fired…
India Can Boost Clean Energy While Doubling Its Power Supply by 2030
Berkeley Lab-led team of researchers finds that higher targets for wind and solar would come at a comparable cost to fossil fuel sources. India has…
Pioneering Framework Could Reduce Energy Demand in Homes and Buildings
Researchers make the case for shifting how we think about heating and cooling needs in buildings. Heating and cooling buildings is a large part of…
Do You Know the Way to Berkelium, Californium? Scientists Map Uncharted Paths With Heavy Elements
Heavy elements and a really powerful microscope help scientists map uncharted paths toward new materials and cancer therapies. Heavy elements known as the actinides are…
Charged Up: Scientists Find New Pathway to Harnessing the Sun for a Clean Energy Future
Berkeley Lab co-led collaboration with DESY and TU Freiberg brings us a step closer to more efficient photovoltaics and solar fuel systems. In the past…
This New Ultrathin Sensor Could Save Your Lungs – And the Climate
Atomically thin device developed by scientists at Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley could turn your smartphone into a supersmart gas sensor. Nitrogen dioxide, an air…
Missing Baryons Found in Far-Out Reaches of Galactic Halos
Berkeley Lab physicists play key role in studies that solve a cosmological mystery. Researchers have channeled the universe’s earliest light – a relic of the universe’s…
The Green Secrets of Goat Poop – Smarter Materials, Better Medicines, and Sustainable Biofuels
Microbes found in the goat gut microbiome could help humans convert plant material into valuable, eco-friendly commodities. Converting the tough fibers and complex sugars in…
Gut Microbes May Be the Key to Unlocking Anxiety
A mouse study suggests the genetic contribution to anxiety is partially mediated by the gut microbiome. The prevalence of anxiety disorders, already the most common…
Dangerous Origins: Solving a Genetic Mystery at the Heart of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Computational biologists dig into the origins of the single unique protein in the SARS-CoV-2 lineage. As the COVID-19 pandemic enters its second year, scientists are…
A COSMIC Approach to Nanoscale Science: World-Leading Resolution of Nanomaterials
Instrument at Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source achieves world-leading resolution of nanomaterials. COSMIC, a multipurpose X-ray instrument at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s (Berkeley Lab’s) Advanced…
Getting to Net Zero Carbon Emissions – and Even Net Negative – Is Surprisingly Feasible and Affordable
New analysis provides detailed blueprint for the U.S. to become carbon neutral by 2050. Reaching zero net emissions of carbon dioxide from energy and industry…
Charges Cascading Along a Molecular Chain: Paving the Way for Information Transfer in Tiny Circuits
Removing one charged molecule from a one-dimensional array causes the others to alternately turn ‘on’ or ‘off,’ paving the way for information transfer in tiny…
How to Reduce Greenhouse Gas? Tips From Methane-Eating Microbes
Advanced X-ray techniques yield insights into a bacterial enzyme that turns methane gas into liquid fuel. Scientists have determined the structure of a unique enzyme,…
Discoveries at the Edge of the Periodic Table: First Ever Measurements of Einsteinium Reveals Unexpected Properties
Experiments by Berkeley Lab scientists on this highly radioactive element reveal some unexpected properties. Since element 99 — einsteinium — was discovered in 1952 at…
