Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Author Profile

Plastic Gets a Do-Over: Breakthrough Discovery Recycles Plastic from the Inside Out

May 7, 2019

Scientists from Berkeley Lab have made a next-generation plastic that can be recycled again and again into new materials...

Scientists 3D-Print All-Liquid ‘Lab on a Chip’

April 29, 2019

The system could automate chemical synthesis for batteries and drug formulations

Climate Simulations Project Wetter, Windier Hurricanes

November 16, 2018

Climate change intensified the amount of rainfall in recent hurricanes such as Katrina, Irma, and Maria by five to 10 percent...

Scientists Develop Sugar-Coated Nanosheets to Selectively Target Pathogens

April 2, 2018

Molecular Foundry-designed 2-D sheets mimic the surface of cells

Sewage Sludge Leads to Biofuels Breakthrough

March 28, 2018

JBEI enzyme discovery enables first-time microbial production of an aromatic biofuel

Beyond the WIMP: Unique Crystals Could Expand the Search for Dark Matter

March 22, 2018

Proposed detector technology would be sensitive to an unexplored range of particle masses

Digging Deep: Harnessing the Power of Soil Microbes for More Sustainable Farming

March 15, 2018

Berkeley Lab's 'farm of the future' project marries microbiology and machine learning

Scientists Confirm Century-Old Speculation on the Chemistry of a High-Performance Battery

February 28, 2018

X-ray experiments at Berkeley Lab reveal what’s at work in an unconventional electrode

‘Minimalist Machine Learning’ Algorithms Analyze Images from Very Little Data

February 23, 2018

CAMERA researchers develop highly efficient neural networks for analyzing experimental scientific images from limited trainin...

Solving the Dark Energy Mystery: A New Assignment for a 45-Year-Old Telescope

February 14, 2018

Berkeley Lab scientists prepare for the installation of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument in Arizona

Scientists Discover 'Chiral Phonons'--Atomic Rotations in a 2-D Semiconductor Crystal

February 5, 2018

Experiments confirm the first chiral phonon that could enable exotic forms of electronics

X-Ray Experiments Suggest High Tunability of 2-D Material

January 30, 2018

Scientists at Berkeley Lab use a new platform, called MAESTRO, to see microscale details in monolayer material’s electr...

Scientists Discover Material Ideal for Smart Photovoltaic Windows

January 24, 2018

Berkeley Lab researchers make thermochromic windows with perovskite solar cell

Ingredients for Life Revealed in Meteorites That Fell to Earth

January 12, 2018

Study, based in part at Berkeley Lab, also suggests dwarf planet in asteroid belt may be a source of rich organic matter...

Real World Native Biocrusts: Microbial Metabolism

January 8, 2018

Functionally linking microbial community structure with environmental chemistry