News By Location
News from CA
Select a state to view local articles and features
6-Jul-2023
Success generating two-qutrit entangling gates with high fidelity
DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Quantum information processors that operate with ternary logic (qutrits) offer significant potential advantages in quantum simulation and error correction, as well as the ability to improve specific quantum algorithms and applications. Building on previous R&D with qutrits at the Advanced Quantum Testbed (AQT), the paper's experimental team, led by a promising UC Berkeley graduate student, successfully entangled two transmon qutrits with gate fidelities significantly higher than in previously reported works.
- Journal
- Nature Communications
- Funder
- DOE/US Department of Energy
6-Jul-2023
Humidity – not just light – causes color degradation in historical paintings, researchers discover
DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
When you look at a painting in a museum, the colors that you see are likely less bright than they were originally, something that had previously been attributed mainly to light exposure. Now, researchers have discovered a new cause of color degradation: humidity.
28-Jun-2023
Mountains vulnerable to extreme rain from climate change
DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National LaboratoryPeer-Reviewed Publication
A new study by Lab scientists finds that as rising global temperatures shift snow to rain, mountains across the Northern Hemisphere will be hotspots for extreme rainfall events that could trigger floods and landslides – potentially impacting a quarter of the world’s population.
- Journal
- Nature
22-Jun-2023
Q&A: On the road toward cleaner batteries
DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Batteries come in many shapes and sizes, but their materials can be hard to source. SLAC researchers are trying to build them with more abundant and ethically mined elements.
21-Jun-2023
A roadmap for gene regulation in plants
DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National LaboratoryPeer-Reviewed Publication
For the first time, researchers have developed a genome-scale way to map the regulatory role of transcription factors, proteins that play a key role in gene expression and determining a plant’s physiological traits. Their work reveals unprecedented insights into gene regulatory networks and identifies a new library of DNA parts that can be used to optimize plants for bioenergy and agriculture.
- Journal
- Cell Systems
15-Jun-2023
How microgrids can help communities adapt to wildfires
DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National LaboratoryPeer-Reviewed Publication
An international team led by research scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has found that clean energy microgrids offer a better and cheaper solution for protecting California communities from wildfire-related outages, compared to conventional microgrids.
- Journal
- Applied Energy
14-Jun-2023
Preserving forests to protect deep soil from warming
DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National LaboratoryPeer-Reviewed Publication
An innovative, decade-long experiment in the foothills of California’s Sierra Nevada mountains shows carbon stocks buried deep underground are vulnerable to climate change. The findings have implications for mitigating global warming through the natural carbon sinks provided by soil and forests which capture 25% of all carbon emissions.
- Journal
- Nature Geoscience
14-Jun-2023
Photosynthesis, key to life on Earth, starts with a single photon
DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National LaboratoryPeer-Reviewed Publication
A cutting-edge experiment has revealed the quantum dynamics of one of nature’s most crucial processes.
- Journal
- Nature
13-Jun-2023
DESI early data release holds nearly two million objects
DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National LaboratoryReports and Proceedings
The first batch of data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument is now available for researchers to explore. Taken during the experiment’s “survey validation” phase, the data include distant galaxies and quasars as well as stars in our own Milky Way.