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The complex biology behind your love (or hatred) of coffee

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Why do some people feel like they need three cups of coffee just to get through the day when others are happy with only one? Why do some people abstain entirely? New research suggests that our intake of coffee -- the most popular beverage in America, above bottled water, sodas, tea, and beer -- is affected by a positive feedback loop between genetics and the environment.

Journal: Behavior Genetics

Terahertz radiation technique opens a new door for studying atomic behavior

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers from the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have made a promising new advance for the lab's high-speed 'electron camera' that could allow them to 'film' tiny, ultrafast motions of protons and electrons in chemical reactions that have never been seen before.

Journal: Physical Review Letters

A talented 2D material gets a new gig

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Berkeley Lab scientists have designed a tunable graphene device for experiments in exotic physics, where superconducting, insulating, and magnetic properties can be observed in a single system. The technology could advance the development of next-generation memory devices and quantum computers.

Journal: Nature

How JCAP Is Making Solar Fuels Shine

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

As we look back at a decade of discovery, we highlight 10 achievements by scientists at Berkeley Lab and the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis that bring us closer to a solar fuels future.

Scientists discover new clue behind age-related diseases and food spoilage

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists at Berkeley Lab have made a surprising discovery that could help explain our risk for developing chronic diseases or cancers as we get older, and how our food decomposes over time.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Radio waves detect particle showers in a block of plastic

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A cheap technique could detect neutrinos in polar ice, eventually allowing researchers to expand the energy reach of IceCube without breaking the bank.

Journal: Physical Review Letters
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Science snapshots: Dinosaur blood vessels, giant viruses, and antibiotic-building enzymes

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Science Snapshots: Dinosaur blood vessels, giant viruses, and antibiotic-building enzymes.

Journal: Nature

Crystal with a Twist: Researchers Grow Spiraling New Material

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Scientists have created new inorganic crystals made of stacks of atomically thin sheets.

How electric fields affect a molecular twist within light-sensitive proteins

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A team of scientists from the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University has gained insight into how electric fields affect the way energy from light drives molecular motion and transformation in a protein commonly used in biological imaging.

Journal: Science
Funder: Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health

Atom or noise? New method helps cryo-EM researchers tell the difference

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Cryogenic electron microscopy can in principle make out individual atoms in a molecule, but distinguishing the crisp from the blurry parts of an image can be a challenge. A new mathematical method may help.

Journal: Nature Methods
Funder: National Institutes of Health

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