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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
April 10, 2018
The international science team, which included researchers from the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and UC Berkeley, analyzed data from past sky surveys using sophisticated image-recognition technology to home in on the gravity-based effects that identifyÃâà...
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
April 2, 2018
Scientists have directly measured the increasing greenhouse effect of methane at the Earth's surface for the first time. A research team from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) tracked a rise in the warming effect of methane — one of the most importantÃâà...
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
March 30, 2018
In this way the new platform, developed by a team led by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), could potentially be used to inactivate or detect pathogens. The team, which also included researchers from New York University, created theÃâà...
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
March 29, 2018
It may be only a matter of time before urban dwellers can hail a self-driving taxi, so researchers at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and UC Berkeley decided to analyze the cost, energy, and environmental implications of a fleet of self-driving electricÃâà...
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
March 28, 2018
Secretary of Energy Rick Perry visited the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) today, getting a firsthand view of how Berkeley Lab combines team science with world-class facilities to develop solutions for the scientific, energy, and technological challenges facingÃâà...
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
March 22, 2018
Now researchers at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) are developing an advanced hydrologic model to study how climate change might affect California watersheds. The new collaborative study, with $3.7 million in funding from the UC Laboratory FeesÃâà...
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
March 22, 2018
A next-generation X-ray beamline now operating at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) brings together a unique set of capabilities to measure the properties of materials at the nanoscale. Called COSMIC, for Coherent Scattering and Microscopy, this X-rayÃâà...
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
March 22, 2018
Researchers at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and UC Berkeley have discovered that as plants develop they craft their root microbiome, favoring microbes that consume very specific metabolites. Their study could help scientists identify ways to enhanceÃâà...
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
March 21, 2018
A new particle detector design proposed at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) could greatly broaden the search for dark matter – which makes up 85 percent of the total mass of the universe yet we don't know what it's made of – into an unexplored realm.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
March 20, 2018
Recognizing that the issues of water and energy are critically interdependent, the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) is launching a new research institute to focus resources on its growing portfolio of projects for water innovation. Building on a decades-longÃâà...
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
March 15, 2018
Diamond samples from locations in Africa and China were studied through a variety of techniques, including a method using infrared light at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). Researchers used Berkeley Lab's Advanced Light Source (ALS), andÃâà...
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
March 14, 2018
Scientists at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), working with the University of Arkansas and Glennoe Farms, hope this project, which brings together molecular biology, biogeochemistry, environmental sensing technologies, and machine learning, willÃâà...
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
March 14, 2018
Image collage - Berkeley Lab Physics Photowalk on May 16, 2018. The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) is offering a special tour to photographers on Wednesday, May 16, during a local event that is part of a Global Physics Photowalk 2018 competition.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
March 8, 2018
Image - Photo showing an ashtray and a person smoking. Researchers at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) identified thirdhand smoke, the toxic residues that linger on indoor surfaces and in dust long after a cigarette has been extinguished, as a healthÃâà...
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
March 7, 2018
An international team led by researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) used advanced techniques in electron microscopy to show how the ratio of materials that make up a lithium-ion battery electrode affects its structure at the atomic level, andÃâà...
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
March 5, 2018
The latest study, which featured experiments at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), could help explain the presence of pyrene, which is a chemical compound known as a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon, and similar compounds in some meteorites. A team ofÃâà...
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
March 1, 2018
Building on methods they used to assess the impact of hurricanes such as Katrina, Gustav, and Rita on forests and tree mortality, scientists at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have produced a rapid mapping of the disturbance intensity across Puerto Rico'sÃâà...
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
February 22, 2018
Now, for the first time, a team of researchers from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and Ohio State University have generated 3-D images from 129 individual molecules of flexible DNA origami particles. Their work provides the first experimental verification of the theoretical model ofÃâà...
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
February 21, 2018
Mathematicians at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have developed a new approach to machine learning aimed at experimental imaging data. Rather than relying on the tens or hundreds of thousands of images used by typical machine learning methods,Ãâà...
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
December 31, 1999
That's why a team of researchers from the Department of Energy's (DOE's) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and Joint Genome Institute (JGI) took one of the most popular clustering approaches in modern biology—the Markov Clustering (MCL) algorithm—and modified it to run quickly,Ãâà...
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
December 31, 1999
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have discovered a new enzyme that will enable microbial production of a renewable alternative to petroleum-based toluene, a widely used octane booster in gasolineÃâà...
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
December 31, 1999
Scientists from the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have developed a way to print 3-D structures composed entirely of liquids. Using a modified 3-D printer, they injected threads of water into silicone oil — sculpting tubes made of one liquid within anotherÃâà...
