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Scientists discovered “secret sauce” behind exotic properties of new quantum material
Work will aid the design of other unusual quantum materials with many potential applications.
New technique that images every pigment cell of a whole zebrafish
New technique visualizes every pigment cell of zebrafish in 3D.
A closer look inside nature’s perfect fluid
Berkeley Lab research brings us closer to understanding how our universe began.
New easy and fast way to measure battery performance
New thermal wave diagnostic technique advances battery performance testing.
Doubling the accuracy of measuring distances to supernova explosions
Supernovae Twins Open Up New Possibilities for Precision Cosmology.
A new pathway to harnessing the sun for a clean energy future
A step closer to more efficient photovoltaics and solar fuel systems.
Genetic contribution to anxiety is partially mediated by the gut microbiome
Are gut microbes the key to unlocking anxiety?
World’s first soft X-ray tomography (SXT) microscope for whole-cell visualization
Unique X-Ray microscope reveals dazzling 3D cell images.
Scientists uncovered novel genomes from Earth’s microbiomes
Genome resource expands known diversity of bacteria and archaea by 44%.
A comprehensive catalog of the molecular elements that regulate our genes
Interpreting the Human Genome’s Instruction Manual.
New insight into bacterial DNA packing
Gene begins quick adaptation once bacteria are put in different environments, such as one that is more acidic or anaerobic. This happens because the...
Climate change is altering forest structure, making forests less of a carbon sink
There are general observations of increasing tree mortality due to changing climate and land use, as well as observations of growth stimulation of younger...
The science behind the love for coffee
The intake of coffee is affected by a positive feedback loop between genetics and the environment. This phenomenon, known as "quantile-specific heritability," is likewise...
A new pathway for carbon chemistry to evolve in space
Study reveals radical wrinkle in forming complex carbon molecules in space.
Amazon rainforest absorbing less carbon than expected
A new study finds that insufficient nutrient supply has not been properly accounted for in ecosystem models.
Drones will fly for days with this new technology
Thermophotovoltaic power conversion utilizes thermal radiation from a local heat source to generate electricity in a photovoltaic cell. On a solar cell, the addition...
Pulsed electron beams shed light on plastics production
The proliferation of plastic products in the last several decades has been extraordinary. Quite simply, humans are addicted to this nearly indestructible material. Over...
Beaches near Hiroshima littered with glassy beads from atomic bomb blast
Fallout debris from nuclear explosions consists of spherules and aerodynamically-shaped glasses, created aerially by high-velocity quenching processes involving materials melted and vaporized at temperatures...
New method to provide a clearer window into dark universe
The cosmic microwave background (CMB) is thought to be leftover radiation from the Big Bang or the time when the universe began. Also known...
The Making of the Largest 3D Map of the Universe
DESI, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, will mobilize 5,000 swiveling robots – each one pointing a thin strand of fiber-optic cable – to gather...
Dark Energy Instrument’s Lenses See the Night Sky for the First Time
On April 1, the dome of the Mayall Telescope near Tucson, Arizona, opened to the night sky, and starlight poured through the assembly of...
When semiconductors stick together, materials go quantum
Two-dimensional (2D) materials, which are only one atom thick, resemble nanosized building blocks that can be stacked arbitrarily to frame little gadgets. At the...
First complete picture of lithium-ion battery performance
The problem with today's commercial batteries is they release about half of the lithium ions they contain. One solution on this is to cram cathodes with...
New detector to count 2 to 5 million gamma rays per second
A prototype for an ultrahigh-rate high-purity germanium (HPGe) detector.
Continuously emitting microlasers with nanoparticle-coated beads
Now it is possible to convert nanoparticle-coated microscopic beads into lasers, thanks to the new technique demonstrated by Berkeley scientists. The technique opens up...
Valleytronics discovery could help extend limits of Moore’s law
A new study by the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and Shuren Lin of UC Berkeley’s Department of Materials Science and...
New sugar-coated nanosheets to selectively target pathogens
A team led by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have developed a process for creating ultrathin,...