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A major milestone for an underground dark matter search experiment

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Business Announcement

Crews working on the largest U.S. experiment designed to directly detect dark matter completed a major milestone last month, and are now turning their sights toward startup after experiencing some delays due to global pandemic precautions.

Video: Dark Matter Day Q&A with LUX-ZEPLIN spokesperson Kevin Lesko

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Kevin Lesko, a spokesperson for the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) dark matter experiment and senior physicist at Berkeley Lab, shares his insights about the mysteries of dark matter, what we know about it, and what we hope to learn about it from LZ, in this Q&A interview at Sanford Lab. The video is part of Berkeley Lab's celebration of Dark Matter Day 2020.

A new approach boosts lithium-ion battery efficiency and puts out fires, too

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Building new functionality into an overlooked lithium-ion battery component addresses two major goals of battery research: extending the driving range of electric vehicles and reducing the danger that laptops, cell phones and other devices will burst into flames.

Journal: Nature Energy
Funder: United States Department of Energy Office of Vehicle Technologies

SLAC starts up new facility to revolutionize particle accelerators

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Business Announcement

FACET-II will pave the way for a future generation of particle colliders and powerful light sources, opening avenues in high-energy physics, medicine, and materials, biological and energy science.

Funder: Department of Energy/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

VIDEO: What's nanotechnology? Kristin Persson explains at 4 different levels

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

In celebration of National Nanotechnology Day, Molecular Foundry Director Kristin Persson explains atomic-scale engineering at four different levels - for a kindergartner, a middle schooler, a high school senior, and a graduate student.

An electrical trigger fires single, identical photons

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at Berkeley Lab have found a way to generate single, identical photons on demand. The precisely controlled photon source, made from an atomically thin semiconducting material, could aid the development of advanced quantum communication.

Journal: Science Advances

New algorithm sharpens focus of world's most powerful microscopes

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists have shown that an algorithm added to image processing software can improve the resolution and accuracy of cryo-electron microscopes, which are one of the most crucial tools in microbiology and medical research.

Journal: Nature Methods

Study finds 'missing link' in the evolutionary history of carbon-fixing protein rubisco

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The discovery of a primitive form of rubisco, a photosynthetic enzyme, will help scientists understand how carbon-fixing microorganisms led to the planet's oxygenation and how modern plants evolved

Jennifer Doudna wins 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Biochemist Jennifer Doudna, a professor at UC Berkeley and faculty scientist at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), is co-winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

First detailed look at how molecular Ferris wheel delivers protons to cellular factories

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

All cells with nuclei, from yeast to humans, use molecular machines called proton pumps to regulate the acidity of organelles - compartments where various types of work are done. A new study reveals a key step in how these Ferris wheel-like pumps operate.

Journal: Science Advances
Funder: US Department of Energy's Office of Science, National Institutes of Health, Korean National Research Foundation

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