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Most Precise Measurement of Energy Range for Particles Produced by Nuclear...
Workers install a Manual Calibration Unit on an antineutrino detector at Daya Bay. This unit was integral in precisely measuring antineutrino energies, as detailed in a new study. (Photo credit: Roy...
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A New Spin on Quantum Computing: Scientists Train Electrons with Microwaves
From left, Berkeley Lab scientists Thomas Schenkel, Qing Ji and Peter Seidl at the NDCX-II (Neutralized Drift Compression Experiment II), which produces powerful ion beams. Researchers are exploring...
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Berkeley Lab, UC Berkeley Scientists to Participate in New NASA Space...
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and UC Berkeley will play a role in an upcoming space telescope project, formally set in motion this...
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President Obama Honors Extraordinary Early-Career Scientists
President Obama has named 106 researchers as recipients of the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor bestowed by the United States Government on science and...
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Updated Workflows for New LHC
After a massive upgrade, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s most powerful particle collider is now smashing particles at an unprecedented 13 tera-electron-volts (TeV)—nearly double the...
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New Way to Reduce Plant Lignin Could Lead to Cheaper Biofuels
Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have shown for the first time that an enzyme can be tweaked to reduce lignin in plants. Their...
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Berkeley Lab Scientists Developing Paint-on Coating for Energy Efficient Windows
It’s estimated that 10 percent of all the energy used in buildings in the U.S. can be attributed to window performance, costing building owners about $50 billion annually, yet the high cost of...
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New Form of Electron-beam Imaging Can See Elements that are ‘Invisible’ to...
Electrons can extend our view of microscopic objects well beyond what’s possible with visible light—all the way to the atomic scale. A popular method in electron microscopy for looking at tough,...
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Modernizing a Technology From the Vacuum Tube Era To Generate Cheap Power
When scientists Daniel Riley and Jared Schwede left Stanford University last year to join Cyclotron Road, a Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) program for entrepreneurial researchers,...
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Cyclotron Road Announces the Selection of its Second Cohort of Innovators
Today, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s (Berkeley Lab) Cyclotron Road program announced the selection of its second cohort of innovators, whose projects include next generation batteries,...
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