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Scientists have engineered yeast to transform one of humanity's most abundant waste products into a high-value biomaterial worth more than $80 per kilogram.
Jun 17, 2025
Using artificial intelligence to analyze old topographic maps, researchers have discovered over 1,300 previously unknown abandoned oil and gas wells across California and Oklahoma, highlighting a novel approach to address this widespread environmental hazard.
Dec 4, 2024
A team of researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has achieved a significant advance in visualizing magnetic skyrmions - nanoscale magnetic structures that could transform the future of computing technology.
Oct 22, 2024
The element actinium was first discovered at the turn of the 20th century, but even now, nearly 125 years later, researchers still don’t have a good grasp on the metal’s chemistry.
Jul 15, 2024
In the ongoing quest to make electronic devices ever smaller and more energy efficient, researchers want to bring energy storage directly onto microchips, reducing the losses incurred when power is transported between various device components.
May 6, 2024
Researchers from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and Genentech, a member of the Roche Group, have collaborated to develop an efficient lipid nanoparticle (LNP) delivery system for therapeutic agents.
Jul 18, 2023
Diesel-fueled freight trucks play an outsized role in producing India’s total greenhouse gas and air pollution emissions.
Nov 15, 2022
Berkeley Lab scientists Ravi Prasher (left) and Sumanjeet Kaur are leading an effort to develop thermal energy storage to decarbonize buildings.
Nov 18, 2021
Oil and gas fields in Poso Creek, California are part of Berkeley Lab’s SUMMATION project on methane monitoring.
Nov 10, 2021
The researchers positioned eight thermal manikins (which are like retail display mannequins but used for scientific research instead) and had a researcher…
Sep 23, 2021
This 2010 video describes collisions of heavy particles at Brookhaven National Laboratory’s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider.
Sep 17, 2021
To begin the study, Mo’s group at Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source (ALS) grew single-layer samples of tantalum diselenide (1T-TaSe2) that are only three-atoms thick.
Aug 20, 2021
An illustration of a thought experiment in which information dropped into a black hole by Alice is recovered by an outside observer Bob.
Apr 27, 2021
Stills from a slow-motion video of the reversible Au crystal formation process on the atomic scale.
Mar 26, 2021
