[embedded content]The making of mendelevium-244: In this video, Berkeley Lab project scientist Jennifer Pore describes how scientists working at Berkeley Lab’s 88-Inch Cyclotron created and…
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Credit: Greg Stewart/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory One of nature’s most important chemical reactions is now being captured in a breakthrough “molecular movie.” Using a unique…
DESI was mounted on the 4-meter Mayall Telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory. Kitt Peak National Observatory (KNPO) is located 56 miles southwest of Tucson,…
Lipitoids, which self-assemble with DNA and RNA, can serve as cellular delivery systems for antiviral therapies that could prevent COVID-19 and other coronavirus infections. Credit:…
A photomultiplier tube array that is part of the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, South Dakota. The photomultiplier tubes are…
Credit: Nathan Johnson/PNNL A molecule commonly produced by gut microbes appears to improve memory in mice. A new study is among the first to trace…
This transmission electron microscope image shows SARS-CoV-2 – the virus that causes COVID-19 – isolated from a patient in the U.S. The protrusions visible on…
Illustration of plasmon waves created by an ultrafast laser coupled to an atomic force microscopy tip. The plasmon waves are shown as concentric red and…
This Hubble Space Telescope image shows a gravitational lens (center) that was first identified as a lens candidate with the assistance of a neural network…
Current experiments’ detectors and data analysis efforts could be refocused to seek out newly suggested types of dark matter signals that may have been overlooked.…
A team of materials scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) – scientists who normally spend their time researching things like high-performance materials for…
The high-efficiency RIXS system at the Advanced Light Source’s Beamline 8.0.1. Credit: Marilyn Sargent/Berkeley Lab Technique adapted at Berkeley Lab X-ray facility finds growing use…
Decaying dark matter should produce a bright and spherical halo of X-ray emission around the center of the Milky Way that could be detectable when…
Safer and more effective anti-mosquito products may be possible with insights gained from x-ray imaging of natural mosquito-targeting toxin produced by bacteria. X-ray Imaging Reveals…
An optical image of the graphene device on a silicon dioxide/silicon chip. Shining metal wires are connected to gold electrodes for electrical measurement. Credit: Guorui…
Data of the Southern Sky taken from the Dark Energy Camera in Chile is helping scientists increase their understanding of what dark energy is and…
At left, natural diamonds glow under ultraviolet light owing to their various nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers. At right, a schematic depicting the diamond anvils in action,…
Researchers employed 20 kilometers (pink) of a 51-kilometer undersea fiber-optic cable, normally used to communicate with an off-shore science node (MARS, Monterey Accelerated Research System),…
Infrared light is focused onto the sharp metallic tip of an atomic force microscope, enabling the acquisition of vibrational spectra from a graphene-liquid interface. Credit:…
Trent Northen, a Berkeley Lab co-author, analyzes a microbiome sample. Credit: Roy Kaltschmidt/Berkeley Lab Microbiomes play essential roles in the natural processes that keep the…