Photovoltaics from Any Semiconductor
Berkeley Lab researchers have developed a technology that enables low-cost, high efficiency solar cells to be made from virtually any semiconductor material. This opens the door to the use of...
View ArticleA Direct Look at Graphene
Berkeley Lab researchers have recorded the first direct observations at microscopic lengths of how electrons and holes respond to a charged impurity in graphene. The results point to interactions...
View ArticleNew Phenomenon in Nanodisk Magnetic Vortices
New findings from a team of Berkeley Lab and Japanese scientists suggest that the road to magnetic vortex RAM might be more difficult to navigate than previously supposed, but there might be unexpected...
View ArticleAsk a Scientist About Extreme Weather and Climate Change
Do you have questions about droughts, heat waves, extreme weather, and climate change? Ask a scientist! Michael Wehner is a climate scientist in Berkeley Lab's Computational Research Division. He uses...
View ArticleBerkeley Lab Scientists Develop New Way to Study Inner-Workings of Algae Cells
Berkeley Lab scientists have developed a way to send molecules and proteins across the cell wall of algae, a feat that opens the door for a new way to study and manipulate these tiny organisms. The...
View ArticleDoing Science to Teach Science
Through a program called IISME, or Industry Initiatives for Science and Mathematics Education, 12 high school science teachers from throughout the Bay Area spent part of their summer working with...
View ArticleA Long-term View of Critical Materials: From Coal to Ytterbium
More than 90 percent of the world’s rare earth elements are now mined in China, and worldwide demand is anticipated to grow from 136,100 metric tons in 2010 to 185,000 metric tons in 2015. However, at...
View ArticleForcing the Molecular Bond Issue
Researchers at Berkeley Lab’s Molecular Foundry developed a first-of-its-kind model for providing a comprehensive description of the way in which molecular bonds form and rupture. This model enables...
View ArticleSalt Seeds Clouds in the Amazon Rainforest
Potassium salts emitted into the humid atmosphere of the Amazon rainforest during the night and early morning hours by plants, and especially by fungus in the process of releasing spores, are the...
View ArticleParking Lot Science: Is Black Best?
Berkeley Lab's Heat Island Group has converted a portion of a new temporary parking lot at Berkeley Lab into a cool pavement exhibit. Cool pavements reflect as much as 30 to 50 percent of the sun’s...
View ArticleBerkeley Lab Scientists Create First 3-D Model of a Protein Critical to...
Berkeley Lab researchers have constructed the first detailed and complete picture of a protein complex that is tied to human birth defects as well as the progression of many forms of cancer. Knowing...
View ArticleLatest JBEI Startup to Speed Up Biotech Industry
TeselaGen Biotechnology, founded by JBEI's Nathan Hillson and two partners, says it will significantly reduce the time and cost involved with DNA synthesis and cloning, a multibillion-dollar market. It...
View ArticlePrince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water to Berkeley Lab’s...
A team led by Berkeley Lab's Ashok Gadgil is the recipient of the 5th Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water. The prize recognizes his team for developing an innovative technology...
View ArticleCrisis Looms as Berkeley Lab’s Last Main Road is Named for Nobelist Perlmutter
During the Open House Lecture Series on October 13 one of the last remaining unnamed roads on the Berkeley Lab site was christened for the 2011 Nobel Prize winner in Physics, Saul Perlmutter. There may...
View ArticleElevated Indoor Carbon Dioxide Impairs Decision-Making Performance
Overturning decades of conventional wisdom, researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have found that moderately high indoor concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2) can significantly impair...
View ArticleState-of-the-Art Beams From Table-Top Accelerators
“Emittance” is the first subject in a two-part feature about novel methods devised by Berkeley Lab scientists to test the quality of hard-to-assess beams from laser plasma accelerators. These table-top...
View ArticleTraining Your Robot the PR-PR Way
PR-PR, a simple high-level, biology-friendly robot-programming language developed by researchers at JBEI and Berkeley Lab, uses an object-oriented approach to make it easier to integrate robotic...
View ArticleMeasuring Table-Top Accelerators’ State-of-the-Art Beams
“Slicing through the electron beam” is the second installment of a two-part feature about new techniques to test beam quality in laser plasma accelerators, including the metric known as slice-energy...
View ArticleFolding Funnels Key to Biomimicry
Berkeley Lab researchers have shown that a concept widely accepted as describing the folding of a single individual protein is also applicable to the self-assembly of multiple proteins. Their findings...
View ArticleA Better Route to Xylan
JBEI researchers have identified a gene in rice plants whose suppression improves both the extraction of xylan and the overall release of the sugars needed to make biofuels.
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