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Researchers use AI to discover a record-breaking material for film capacitors

Researchers use an innovative set of machine-learning models to discover a record-breaking material for film capacitors.

DESI data: Weighing in on gravity

Their observations line up with what Einstein's theory of general relativity predicts.

skyrmion

The first 3D X-ray of a Skyrmion magnetism vortex

The results open up new avenues for nanoscale metrology for spintronics devices.

Microelectronics Co-Design Team member Prabhat Kumar of the Applied Mathematics & Computational Research Division used the Perlmutter supercomputer at the Department of Energy’s National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center to develop the 3D modeling framework FerroX.

New computer simulations could advance energy-efficient microelectronics

Researchers team up to fast-track the development of ultra-low-power microelectronics.

Mars InSight as seen in "selfie" taken by lander

Geophysicists find stores of liquid water on Mars

Presence of liquid water most probable explanation for data collected by Mars lander.

element-116

Milestone! Researchers made superheavy element

A breakthrough that enables the lab to try to make new element 120.

A team of scientists in a laboratory working diligently to analyze cancer cells under a microscop

Researchers watch catalyst during electrochemical reaction for the first time

Findings could enable advances in sustainable energy production, industry, and design.

Kaushalya Jhuria in the lab testing the electronics that are part of the experimental setup used for making qubits in silicon.

New technique could bring us closer to a scalable quantum computer

A new pathway for industry to overcome challenges in qubit fabrication and quality control.

2D material exhibits normal liquid behavior with all particles similarly mobile

Theoretical evidence for a liquid-to-solid phase transition

Improved understanding of glassy dynamics could help scientists explain why a liquid behaves like a solid.

Image showing neurons.

An open-source platform for developing Neural Radiance Fields

Plug-and-play framework simplifies collaboration and interactive 3D scene development.

Photosynthesis

Photosynthesis starts with a single photon, the study

A cutting-edge experiment has revealed the quantum dynamics of one of nature’s most crucial processes.

CrCoNi alloy

This simple metal alloy is the toughest material on Earth

A new study reveals the profound properties of a simple metal alloy.

density wave pattern in a monolayer of tantalum diselenide. Each star consists of 13 tantalum atoms

Clearest picture yet of electronic particles that make up quantum spin liquid

The study could prompt the development of superfast quantum computers and energy-efficient superconductors.

A new study has found that a share of particles that has been challenging to locate is most likely sprinkled across the distant bounds of galaxy halos

Scientists mapped the location of missing baryons

Missing baryons found in far-out reaches of galactic halos.

XMM-Newton (X-ray Multi-Mirror Mission) space telescope

Axions might be the source of X-ray emissions surrounding neutron stars, study

X-Rays Surrounding ‘Magnificent 7’ May Be Traces of Sought-After Particle.

2D boron nitride substrate

A new nanomaterial helps obtain hydrogen from a liquid energy carrier

A new nanomaterial helps obtain hydrogen from a liquid energy carrier, in a key step toward a stable and clean fuel source.

Jennifer Pore, a Berkeley Lab project scientist who led the study detailing the discovery of mendelevium-244, operates the Berkeley Gas-filled Separator vacuum controller at Berkeley Lab's 88-Inch Cyclotron in this 2018 photo

Introducing a new man-made isotope-Mendelevium-244

Scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have recently created isotope called Mendelevium-244. This is a new form of human-made element mendelevium. Initially...

Lead researcher Aindrila Mukhopadhyay holds a vial of purified indigoidine crystals. Image: Berkeley Lab

Fungi-produced blue pigment provides an Eco-friendly alternative to conventional synthetic dyes

A team of scientists from the Department of Energy's Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI), has investigated microbe-based biomanufacturing led straight to an eco-friendly production platform...

A sample of the mineral lepidolite, a key source of lithium, mined in Finland. Credit: iStock/ekakoskinen

Lithium doesn’t crack under pressure, it transforms

Lithium is the lightest solid metal, it’s soft, silvery-white, with a low melting point and reactive. Many of its physical and chemical properties are...

This visualization of a general-relativistic collisionless plasma simulation shows the density of positrons near the event horizon of a rotating black hole. Plasma instabilities produce island-like structures in the region of intense electric current. (Credit: Kyle Parfrey et al./Berkeley Lab)

Simulations provide new clues to what’s driving powerful plasma jets

How black holes clean energy secured in their rotation, jetting near-light-speed plasmas into space to opposite sides in one of the most powerful displays...

Researchers at Berkeley Lab and the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis have demonstrated that recycling carbon dioxide into valuable chemicals such as ethylene and propanol, and fuels such as ethanol, can be economical and efficient – all through product-specific “active sites” on a single copper catalyst. (Credit: Ager and Lum/Berkeley Lab)

Carbon fuels go green for renewable energy

For quite a long time, researchers have hunt down compelling approaches to remove overabundance carbon dioxide emissions from the air and reuse them into...

Scientists capture photosynthesis in unprecedented detail

Scientists capture photosynthesis in unprecedented detail

Scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have successfully captured a picture of steps in the reaction mechanisms in photosynthesis. To capture the image, scientists used SLAC’s...

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