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film capacitor
Technology

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

Jay Kakade

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

Space

DESI data: Weighing in on gravity

Amit Malewar

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

long-predicted ultrafast pathway
Chemistry

An ultrafast imaging technique reveals how bromoform reacts to light

Pranjal Malewar

Watching a molecular reaction in real time.

skyrmion
Physics

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

Amit Malewar

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.
Technology

New computer simulations could advance energy-efficient microelectronics

Ashwini Sakharkar

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

Mars InSight as seen in "selfie" taken by lander
Space

Geophysicists find stores of liquid water on Mars

Amit Malewar

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

element-116
Physics

Milestone! Researchers made superheavy element

Pranjal Malewar

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
Chemistry

Researchers watch catalyst during electrochemical reaction for the first time

Ashwini Sakharkar

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.
Quantum Computing

New technique could bring us closer to a scalable quantum computer

Ashwini Sakharkar

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
Chemistry

Theoretical evidence for a liquid-to-solid phase transition

Pranjal Malewar

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

Image showing neurons.
3D Printing

An open-source platform for developing Neural Radiance Fields

Vidya Nagalwade

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

Photosynthesis
Biology

Photosynthesis starts with a single photon, the study

Pranjal Malewar

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

CrCoNi alloy
Science

This simple metal alloy is the toughest material on Earth

Amit Malewar

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

high-energy electron scattering
Science

Physicists found something surprising after peering into light nuclei

Amit Malewar

An atomic nucleus is a busy place.

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

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

Amit Malewar

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
Space

Scientists mapped the location of missing baryons

Amit Malewar

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

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

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

Amit Malewar

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

two possible types of surface layers for a catalyst
Invention

Scientists revealed an unexpected transformation in a single atomic layer

Ashwini Sakharkar

A 1-atom-deep look at a water-splitting catalyst.

Co-authors Cosmo Buffalo (left) and Richard Hooy discussing the ORF8 structure, shown as a ribbon diagram and space-filling model
Science

Scientists determined the atomic structure of a coronavirus protein

Pranjal Malewar

The odd structure of ORF8.

2D boron nitride substrate
Technology

A new nanomaterial helps obtain hydrogen from a liquid energy carrier

Ashwini Sakharkar

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
Science

Introducing a new man-made isotope-Mendelevium-244

Amit Malewar

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
Science

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

Pranjal Malewar

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
Science

Lithium doesn’t crack under pressure, it transforms

Amit Malewar

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)
Space

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

Amit Malewar

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)
Invention

Carbon fuels go green for renewable energy

Amit Malewar

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
Science

Scientists capture photosynthesis in unprecedented detail

Amit Malewar

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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