Polar Vortices Observed in Ferroelectric
The first ever observations of polar vortices in a ferroelectic material could find potential applications in ultracompact data storage and processing and the production of new states of matter....
View ArticleSimplifying Solar Cells with a New Mix of Materials
An international research team has simplified the steps to create highly efficient silicon solar cells by applying a new mix of materials to a standard design. Arrays of solar cells are used in solar...
View ArticleScientists Discover Protein’s Starring Role in Genome Stability, and Possibly...
If you have a soft spot for unsung heroes, you’ll love a DNA repair protein called XPG. Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) discovered...
View ArticleCoupling 2 ‘Tabletop’ Laser-Plasma Accelerators, a Decisive First Step Toward...
-Written by Paul Preuss The TREX laser at Berkeley Lab’s BELLA Center was used in a two-stage laser-plasma acceleration experiment. (Berkeley Lab) Laser-plasma accelerators (LPAs) got the nickname...
View ArticleNew Galaxy-hunting Sky Camera Sees Redder Better
A newly upgraded camera that incorporates light sensors developed at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) is now one of the best cameras on the planet...
View ArticleScientists Take Key Step Toward Custom-made Nanoscale Chemical Factories
Scientists have for the first time reengineered a building block of a geometric nanocompartment that occurs naturally in bacteria. They introduced a metal binding site to its shell that will allow...
View ArticleGraphene is Strong, But Is It Tough?
Graphene, a material consisting of a single layer of carbon atoms, has been touted as the strongest material known to exist, 200 times stronger than steel, lighter than paper, and with extraordinary...
View Article‘Lasers Rewired’: Scientists Find a New Way to Make Nanowire Lasers
This nanowire, composed of cesium, lead and bromide (CsPbBr3), emits bright laser light after hit by a pulse from another laser source. The nanowire laser proved to be very stable, emitting laser light...
View ArticleMost 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...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleBerkeley 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...
View ArticlePresident 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...
View ArticleUpdated 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...
View ArticleNew 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...
View ArticleBerkeley 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...
View ArticleNew 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,...
View ArticleModernizing 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,...
View ArticleCyclotron 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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