Geothermal power plants at the Salton Sea like this one, the John Featherstone plane, produce superheated brine, which is full of lithium and other minerals.…
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Near elimination of air pollution from diesel-electric freight trains by 2025 is now possible by retrofitting them with battery tender cars. Berkeley Lab study shows…
Artist’s illustration of hydrodynamical behavior from an interacting ensemble of quantum spin defects in diamond. Credit: Norman Yao/Berkeley Lab Berkeley Lab-led research key to next-gen…
This Exotic Particle Had an Out-of-Body Experience – These Surprised Scientists Took a Picture of It
Artist’s illustration of ghost particles moving through a quantum spin liquid. Credit: Jenny Nuss/Berkeley Lab An unexpected finding by scientists at Berkeley Lab and UC…
An artistic rendering of antibodies surrounding a SARS-CoV-2 particle. An antibody therapy that appears to neutralize all known SARS-CoV-2Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)…
The SAIL site in Gothic, Colorado. Credit: Ken Williams/Berkeley Lab First-ever “bedrock-to-atmosphere” observation system could allow scientists to predict the future of water availability in…
Study authors (from left to right) Andrew K. Lau, Thomas Eng, and Deepanwita Banerjee stand in front of a two-liter bioreactor containing P. putida cells…
Berkeley Lab doctoral student Fumika Isono (center), BELLA Center Deputy Director Jeroen van Tilborg (right), and research scientist Sam Barber set up a novel laser…
This color-enhanced image, taken by scanning electron microscopy, shows huge quantities of SARS-CoV-2 particles (purple) that have burst out of kidney cells (green), which the…
Credit: Marilyn Sargent/Berkeley Lab A one-atom-thin 2D magnet developed by Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley could advance new applications in computing and electronics. The development…
Technology and commercial advancements are expected to continue to drive down the cost of wind energy, according to a survey led by Lawrence Berkeley National…
Using ultraviolet light, researchers probed the electronic characteristics of a 2D semiconductor (purple) as the number of substrate layers (green) increased. In the data maps,…
Example of the tiling pattern used in scanning a C. elegans roundworm. The non-grid-based pattern gives the sampling algorithm greater flexibility to quickly zero in…
Projected versus actual outcomes for the U.S. power sector. Credit: Berkeley Lab New Berkeley Lab study reviews progress towards a carbon-free power sector. Concerns about…
Staff engineer Bruis van Vlijmen is seen working inside the Battery Informatics Lab 1070 in the Arrillaga Science Center, Bldg. 57. Credit: Jacqueline Orrell/SLAC National…
Ion beams can create chains of closely coupled quantum bits (qubits) based on nitrogen-vacancy “color centers” in diamond for use in quantum computing hardware. The…
Only about 2% of plastics are fully recycled currently. PDK plastics could solve the single-use crisis. A new environmental and technological analysis suggests that a…
Cosmologists have found a way to double the accuracy of measuring distances to supernova explosions – one of their tried-and-true tools for studying the mysterious…
The experimental quantum computing setup at the Advanced Quantum Testbed. Credit: Berkeley Lab Team led by Berkeley Lab, UC Berkeley scientists builds a new type…