The Materials Project, an open-access database for new materials, is revolutionizing how researchers discover and develop materials for future technologies, with Google DeepMind contributing 400,000…
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A breakthrough in hybrid supercapacitors has been achieved by increasing the active material in electrodes through a novel method involving β-Ni(OH)2 and NH4F. This innovation…
Artistic depiction of electron transfer driven by an ultrashort laser pulse, across an interface between two atomically-thin materials. This transfer is facilitated by an interlayer…
CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) is a revolutionary gene editing technology that allows scientists to make precise changes to the DNA of living…
The research shed new light on auxiliary metabolic genes. The protein could be important in both soil decomposition and soil carbon cycling. There are billions…
A digital illustration inspired by methane-eating archaea and the Borgs that assimilate them. Credit: Jenny Nuss/Berkeley Lab A newly discovered type of transferrable DNADNA, or…
Protons collide with their fellow protons and neutrons with their fellow neutrons more often than predicted. Physicists peer into mirror nuclei. The atomic nucleus is…
Members of the LZ team in the LZ water tank after the outer detector installation. Credit: Matthew Kapust, Sanford Underground Research Facility Berkeley Lab Researchers…
Artistic rendering of Ca. Thiomargarita magnifica with dime. Credit: Mangrove photo by Pierre Yves Pascal; Illustration by Susan Brand/Berkeley Lab Though newly discovered bacteria are…
New research followed proteins as they rotated on a mineral surface, identifying unexpected motion. Credit: Illustration by Stephanie King | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Better…
Abstract artist’s concept of neutrino particles. CUORE Team Places New Limits on the Bizarre Behavior of Neutrinos Physicists are closing in on the true nature…
A visualization of the zero-energy electronic states – also known as a “Fermi surface” – from the kagome material studied by MIT’s Riccardo Comin and…
A model solar fuels device called a photoelectrochemical cell. A research team led by Francesca Toma, a staff scientist at the Liquid Sunlight Alliance in…
A Q&A with two scientists aiming to overcome limits in computing power and energy efficiency by designing new microchips. Our laptops and smartphones are compact…
DESI’s three-dimensional “CT scan” of the Universe. The earth is in the lower left, looking out over 5 billion light years in the direction of…
Artist’s rendering of autonomous, continuous “liquid robots” in an animated GIF. Credit: Jenny Nuss/Berkeley Lab By removing electricity from equation, discovery overcomes yearslong hurdle in…
Berkeley Lab researchers have reported a breakthrough in phase-change materials, which will improve the affordability of thermal energy storage. Phase-change materials can be added inside…
Scanning tunneling microscopy image of a zigzag graphene nanoribbon. Credit: Felix Fischer/Berkeley Lab Technique Tunes Into Graphene Nanoribbons’ Electronic Potential Ever since grapheneGraphene is an…
Samples of an all-season smart-roof coating designed to keep homes warm during the winter and cool during the summer – without consuming natural gas or…
A new study finds that plants are photosynthesizing more in response to more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, but nowhere near enough to remove all…