6 Berkeley Lab Researchers Receive DOE Early Career Research Awards

Six scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have been selected by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Science to receive significant funding for research through its Early Career Research Program.
21-Jun-2018 1:30 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Berkeley Lab Researchers Use Machine Learning to Search Science Data

Researchers at Berkeley Lab are currently developing a web-based search engine for scientific data, called Science Search. The team is also building innovative machine learning tools to pull contextual information from scientific datasets and...
19-Jun-2018 9:00 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Scientists Create Continuously Emitting Microlasers With Nanoparticle-Coated Beads

Researchers have found a way to convert nanoparticle-coated microscopic beads into lasers smaller than red blood cells. These microlasers, which convert infrared light into light at higher frequencies, are among the smallest continuously emitting...
14-Jun-2018 1:50 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Faster, Cheaper, Better: A New Way to Synthesize DNA

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) based at Berkeley Lab have pioneered a new way to synthesize DNA sequences through a creative use of enzymes that promises to be faster, cheaper, and more accurate. DNA...
14-Jun-2018 11:00 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Experiments at Berkeley Lab Help Trace Interstellar Dust Back to Solar System’s Formation

Experiments conducted at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory helped to confirm that samples of interplanetary particles – collected from Earth’s upper atmosphere and believed to originate from comets – contain...
11-Jun-2018 3:30 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Non-Crystal Clarity: Scientists Find Ordered Magnetic Patterns in Disordered Magnetic Material

A team of scientists working at Berkeley Lab has confirmed a special property known as “chirality” – which potentially could be exploited to transmit and store data in a new way – in nanometers-thick samples of multilayer materials that...
8-Jun-2018 11:00 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Steve Kevan Named Next Director of Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source

After an international search, Stephen D. “Steve” Kevan has been named the new director of the Advanced Light Source (ALS) at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
6-Jun-2018 12:00 PM EDT Add to Favorites

‘Super Window’ Could Save $10 Billion Annually in Energy Costs

Berkeley Lab works with industry to push superinsulating windows into marketplace
6-Jun-2018 11:00 AM EDT Add to Favorites

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