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New technique improves conversion of carbon dioxide into liquid fuels

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at Berkeley Lab have demonstrated how coating copper catalysts with thin films can improve a standard technique for converting carbon dioxide emissions into useful chemicals and liquid fuels.

Journal: Nature Energy

Researchers recreate deep-Earth conditions to see how iron copes with extreme stress

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

New observations of the atomic structure of iron reveal it undergoes "twinning" under extreme stress and pressure.

Journal: Physical Review Letters

How a novel radio frequency control system enhances quantum computers

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

A team at the Advanced Quantum Testbed at Berkeley Lab demonstrated low-cost and high-performance radio frequency mixing modules for superconducting qubit controls at room temperature.

Journal: Review of Scientific Instruments
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Rising talent in quantum computing: Meet early career researchers at QSA

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

The Quantum Systems Accelerator is opening exciting opportunities in quantum information science & technology for researchers. Meet QSA's early career researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder, a QSA partner institution, and JILA.

Managing water resources in a low-to-no-snow future

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new Berkeley Lab analysis finds that if greenhouse gas emissions continue along the high-emissions scenario, low-to-no-snow winters will become a regular occurrence in the western U.S. in 35 to 60 years.

Journal: Nature Reviews Earth & Environment

BICEP3 tightens the bounds on cosmic inflation

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new analysis of the South Pole-based telescope’s cosmic microwave background observations has all but ruled out several popular models of inflation.

Journal: Physical Review Letters

Experiments confirm a quantum material’s unique response to circularly polarized laser light

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

SLAC scientists are probing topological insulators with circularly polarized light to reveal their many secrets. These exotic materials have potential for quantum computing and other technologies. They discovered that high harmonic generation produces a unique signature from the topological surface.

Journal: Nano Letters
Funder: U.S. Department of Energy, Swiss National Science Foundation

Science snapshots from Berkeley Lab

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

New Berkeley Lab breakthroughs: engineering chemical-producing microbes; watching enzyme reactions in real time; capturing the first image of ‘electron ice’; revealing how skyrmions really move

Journal: Nature Chemistry

Berkeley Lab mobilizes to predict how Caldor fire may lead to floods and land movement

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

After the Caldor Fire erupted in August 2021, scientists from Berkeley Lab launched a research project to study how the fire would affect the mountain ecosystem, including factors such as streamflow, groundwater levels, water quality, and possible soil erosion leading to floods and debris flow. They mobilized to burn areas to collect samples of water, sediment, and ash.

Nanotwinned titanium forges path to sustainable manufacturing

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists at Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley have developed a cheap and efficient way to produce pure titanium metal. Their approach is scalable for commercial production, and produces an easily recycled product.

Journal: Science

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