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SLAC joins the global fight against COVID-19

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

The lab is responding to the coronavirus crisis by imaging disease-related biomolecules, developing standards for reliable coronavirus testing and enabling other essential research.

Seeing 'under the hood' in batteries

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A high-sensitivity X-ray technique at Berkeley Lab is attracting a growing group of scientists because it provides a deep, precise dive into battery chemistry.

Journal: Science Advances

Staff at Berkeley Lab's X-Ray facility mobilize to support COVID-19-related research

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Business Announcement

Berkeley Lab's Advanced Light Source X-ray facility has been recalled to action to support research related to COVID-19, the coronavirus disease that has already infected about 2 million people around the world.

Science snapshots from Berkeley Lab: 3D nanoparticles and magnetic spin

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at Berkeley Lab have captured 3D images of nanoparticles in liquid with atomic precision, and developed an ultrathin electrical switch that could further miniaturize computing devices and personal electronics without loss of performance.

Journal: Science

NERSC's scientific computing power steps into coronavirus battle

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Researchers from the City of Hope's Beckman Research Institute and the Translational Genomics Research Institute will use supercomputing resources at the National Energy Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) to help battle the COVID-19 global pandemic.

Making biofuels cheaper by putting plants to work

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

One strategy to make biofuels more competitive is to make plants do some of the work themselves. Scientists can engineer plants to produce valuable chemical compounds, or bioproducts, as they grow. Then the bioproducts can be extracted from the plant and the remaining plant material can be converted into fuel. But one important part of this strategy has remained unclear -- exactly how much of a particular bioproduct would plants need to make in order to make the process economically feasible?

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

The Milky Way's satellites help reveal link between dark matter halos and galaxy formation

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Just like we orbit the sun and the moon orbits us, the Milky Way has satellite galaxies with their own satellites. Drawing from data on those galactic neighbors, a new model suggests the Milky Way should have an additional 100 or so very faint satellite galaxies awaiting discovery.

Funder: National Science Foundation, DOE/US Department of Energy, Stanford University

NERSC, ESnet continue deliver supercomputing, networking support during pandemic

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

While people around the world hunker down in their homes to try to slow the advance of the COVID-19 virus and many services have decreased or stopped, NERSC and ESnet continue to provide critical computing and networking resources to thousands of scientists, including some who are exploring ways to fight the pandemic.

A new way to fine-tune exotic materials: Thin, stretch and clamp

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Turning a brittle oxide into a flexible membrane and stretching it on a tiny apparatus flipped it from a conducting to an insulating state and changed its magnetic properties. The technique can be used to study and design a broad range of materials for use in things like sensors and detectors.

Journal: Science
Funder: Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation's Emergent Phenomena in Quantum Systems Initiative, US Department of Energy's Office of Science

Uncertain climate future could disrupt energy systems

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

An international team of scientists has published a new study proposing an optimization methodology for designing climate-resilient energy systems and to help ensure that communities will be able to meet future energy needs given weather and climate variability. Their findings were recently published in Nature Energy.

Journal: Nature Energy

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