Technology
National Labs Band Together to Build Prototype Magnet for Future and Existing Light Sources
With a powerful enough light, you can see things that people once thought would be impossible.
Feb 18, 2021
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Technology
Discoveries at the Edge of the Periodic Table: First Ever Measurements of Einsteinium
Element 99, named after Albert Einstein, was discovered at Berkeley Lab in 1952 and announced in 1955. Einsteinium is considered a heavy element and is highly radioactive.
Feb 4, 2021
Technology
Getting to Net Zero – and Even Net Negative – is Surprisingly Feasible, and Affordable
In the least-cost scenario to achieve net zero emissions of CO2 by 2050, wind, solar, and battery storage capacity will have to increase several-fold (left…
Jan 29, 2021
Technology
A Machine Learning Solution for Designing Materials with Desired Optical Properties
Understanding how matter interacts with light – its optical properties – is critical in a myriad of energy and biomedical technologies, such as targeted drug delivery, quantum dots, fuel combustion, and cracking of biomass.
Dec 3, 2020
Technology
Machine Learning Takes on Synthetic Biology: Algorithms Can Bioengineer Cells for You
If you’ve eaten vegan burgers that taste like meat or used synthetic collagen in your beauty routine – both products that are “grown” in the lab – then you’ve benefited from synthetic biology.
Sep 30, 2020
Technology
Scientists Capture Candid Snapshots of Electrons Harvesting Light at the Atomic Scale
Co-authors Monika Blum, Guiji Liu, Oliver Gessner, and Francesca Toma of Berkeley Lab.
Sep 30, 2020
Physics
Another Win for the Standard Model: New Study Defies Decades-Old ‘Discrepancy’ With High-Precision Measurement
In particle physics, it’s the anomalies, tensions, deviations, and discrepancies – the results that don’t quite sync with Standard Model-based predictions and calculations – that create a buzz among those working in the field.
Jul 31, 2020
Technology
Battery Breakthrough Gives Boost to Electric Flight and Long-Range Electric Cars
The Helms team used X-rays at Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source to create 3D images of the interface between lithium metal and the electrolyte.
Jul 21, 2020
Health
Clues to COVID-19 Treatments Could Be Hiding in Existing Data – These Scientists Want to Find Them
Workflow for using link prediction to extract actionable knowledge from the KG-COVID-19 knowledge graph.
Jul 16, 2020
Health
Machine Learning Tool Could Provide Unexpected Scientific Insights into COVID-19
A team of materials scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) – scientists who normally spend their time researching things like…
Apr 28, 2020