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Study: X-Rays surrounding 'Magnificent 7' may be traces of sought-after particle

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study, led by a theoretical physicist at Berkeley Lab, suggests that never-before-observed particles called axions may be the source of unexplained, high-energy X-ray emissions surrounding a group of neutron stars.

Journal: Physical Review Letters

Berkeley Lab science snapshots

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

CO2 removal, water-splitting, battery mystery, thirdhand smoke remediation

Journal: Joule

Building a giant 2D map of the universe to prepare for the largest 3D map

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Business Announcement

Before DESI, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, can begin its 5-year mission from an Arizona mountaintop to produce the largest 3D sky map yet, researchers first needed an even bigger 2D map of the universe.

Shine on: Avalanching nanoparticles break barriers to imaging cells in real time

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A team of researchers co-led by Berkeley Lab and Columbia University has developed a new material called avalanching nanoparticles that, when used as a microscopic probe, offers a simpler approach to taking high-resolution, real-time snapshots of a cell's inner workings at the nanoscale.

Journal: Nature

The odd structure of ORF8: Mapping the coronavirus protein linked to disease severity

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A team of biologists who banded together to support COVID-19 science determined the atomic structure of a coronavirus protein thought to help the pathogen evade and dampen response from human immune cells. The structural map - which is now published in the journal PNAS, but has been open-access for the scientific community since August - has laid the groundwork for new antiviral treatments and enabled further investigations into how the newly emerged virus ravages the human body.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Two Berkeley Lab scientists honored with the Lawrence Award

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

The Department of Energy has announced that Susannah Tringe and Dan Kasen, two scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), will receive the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award, one of DOE's highest honors. Additionally, former Berkeley Lab scientist M. Zahid Hasan, was also named as one of the eight recipients.

Impacts of climate change on our water and energy systems: it's complicated

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), UC Berkeley, and UC Santa Barbara have developed a science-based analytic framework to evaluate the complex connections between water and energy, and options for adaptations in response to an evolving climate.

Journal: Environmental Research Letters

Study shows tweaking one layer of atoms on a catalyst's surface can make it work better

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

When an LNO catalyst with a nickel-rich surface carries out a water-splitting reaction, its surface atoms rearrange from a cubic to a hexagonal pattern and its efficiency doubles. Deliberately engineering the surface to take advantage of this phenomenon offers a way to design better catalysts.

Journal: Nature Materials
Funder: the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program through a Marie Sklodowska-Curie fellowship, DOE/US Department of Energy

First glimpse of polarons forming in a promising next-gen energy material

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Polarons affect a material's behavior, and may even be the reason that solar cells made with lead hybrid perovskites achieve extraordinarily high efficiencies in the lab. Now scientists have used an X-ray free-electron laser to directly see and measure the formation of these ephemeral atomic lattice distortions for the first time.

Journal: Nature Materials
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Speeding toward improved hydrogen fuel production

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new material developed by a team led by Berkeley Lab will help to make hydrogen a viable energy source for a wide range of applications.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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