Through a decade-long partnership between the ALS and NASA, researchers are studying how heat shield materials called superlight ablators degrade, informing NASA spacecraft design. Research at the ALS ...

Researchers developed a powerful new methodology that combines direct imaging of electrons and defects in 2D semiconductors with theory-driven simulations that predict electron behavior and explain ...

A class of alternative tobacco product called heat-not-burn is quickly gaining in popularity across the globe. The product manufacturers claim that these battery-operated devices produce a “clean,” ...

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) is working to transform petabytes of imaging data from advanced light and neutron scattering user facilities in the U.S. into actionable knowledge, ...

Berkeley Lab scientists showed a novel way to build advanced transistors decades before similar structures reached smartphones. Their bottom-up approach crafted transistors at 2-nanometer scale ...

The Same Genetic Blueprint Develops the Faces of Birds and Mammals, So Why Do They Look So Different?

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics to Alain Aspect, John Clauser, and Anton Zeilinger “for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation ...

Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels will require severely cutting greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030. Doing so calls for the immediate, large-scale ...

Scientists developed a new fabrication technique to fine-tune a platinum catalyst on an atomic level. To demonstrate the technique’s effectiveness, the research team showed that the catalyst could ...

Quantum technologies may still be in development, but these systems are evolving rapidly and existing prototypes are already making a big impact on science and industry. One of the major hubs of ...

Earth’s magnetic field, a familiar directional indicator over long distances, is routinely probed in applications ranging from geology to archaeology. Now it has provided the basis for a technique ...

Scientists at Berkeley Lab’s 88-Inch Cyclotron developed a new technique for atom-at-a-time chemistry that opens up the next generation of heavy- and superheavy-element studies. This is the first time ...