To prevent the worst outcomes from climate change, the U.S. will need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 50% in the next eight years. Scientists from around the nation have developed a blueprint for success. | Continue reading
The need for negative emissions technologies to address our climate crisis has become increasingly clear. At the rate that our planet is emitting carbon dioxide – adding about 50 gigatons every year – we will have to remove carbon dioxide at the gigaton scale by 2050 in order to … | Continue reading
A one-atom-thin 2D magnet developed by Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley could advance new applications in computing and electronics, such as spintronics. | Continue reading
Researchers at UC Berkeley and Berkeley Lab have discovered a better way to remove toxic metals during desalination to produce clean water. | Continue reading
To address PPE shortages during the pandemic, scientists at Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley are developing a rechargeable, reusable anti-COVID N95 mask. | Continue reading
A Berkeley Lab intern and his mentor develop an algorithm that will extract better structures from low-quality crystallography diffraction data | Continue reading
Researchers at Berkeley Lab have developed a new battery material that could enable electric planes and long-range EVs. | Continue reading
Scientists from Pacific Northwest and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories showed that both dietary and supplementary sources of a common gut microbe or its main chemical product, lactic acid, led to better memory performance in mice. | Continue reading
A team of scientists led by Berkeley Lab have 3D-printed a revolutionary new material that is both liquid and magnetic. | Continue reading
Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have developed a new chemical separation method that is vastly more efficient than conventional processes, opening the door to faster discovery of new elements, easier nuclear fuel reprocessing, and, most tantalizing, a better … | Continue reading
Methane, a potent greenhouse gas that traps about 30 times more heat than carbon dioxide, is commonly released from rice fields, dairies, landfills, and oil and gas facilities – all of which are plentiful in California. Now Berkeley Lab has been awarded $6 million by the state to … | Continue reading
Berkeley Lab scientists have designed a plastic that can be repeatedly recycled at the molecular level without loss of performance or quality. | Continue reading
A team of researchers led by Berkeley Lab has observed handedness for the first time in polar skyrmions in a ferroelectric material. | Continue reading
Berkeley Lab climate experts have partnered with the City and County of San Francisco and Silvestrum Climate Associates to assess how climate change may influence the intensity of atmospheric rivers and associated precipitation, and how those changes may impact San Francisco and … | Continue reading
On April 1, a telescope dome in Arizona opened to the sky to test the performance of a new assembly of lenses built for a new instrument called DESI. | Continue reading
ProtoDUNE has recorded its first particle tracks, signaling the start of a new chapter in the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment. | Continue reading
A team led by Berkeley Lab researchers has enlisted powerful supercomputers to calculate a quantity, known as the “nucleon axial coupling” or gA, that is central to our understanding of a neutron’s lifetime. | Continue reading
Particle accelerators are pushing the extremes in high-brightness beams and ultrashort pulses, and scientists have devised a new tool that can measure how bright these beams are, even for pulses that last only quadrillionths or even quintillionths of a second. | Continue reading