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Is your supercomputer stumped? There may be a quantum solution

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study led by a Berkeley Lab physicist details how a quantum computing technique called 'quantum annealing' can be used to solve problems relevant to fundamental questions in nuclear physics about the subatomic building blocks of all matter. It could also help answer other vexing questions in science and industry, too.

Journal: Scientific Reports

Scientists cook up new recipes for taking salt out of seawater

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

As populations boom and chronic droughts persist, coastal cities like Carlsbad in Southern California have increasingly turned to ocean desalination to supplement a dwindling fresh water supply. Now scientists at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) investigating how to make desalination less expensive have hit on promising design rules for making so-called 'thermally responsive' ionic liquids to separate water from salt.

Hans-Georg Steinrück receives Spicer Award for energy storage research at X-ray synchrotron

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Hans-Georg Steinrück, a versatile scientist who has made important contributions to research involving lithium-ion batteries, organic transistors, and catalysis, has been chosen to receive the 2019 William E. and Diane M. Spicer Young Investigator Award.

Science snapshots: Chromosomes, crystals, and drones

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

From Berkeley Lab: exploring human origins in the uncharted territory of our chromosomes; scientists grow spiraling new material; drones will fly for days with this new technology

Journal: Nature

100 days, 100 nights: Sensor network reveals telltale patterns in neighborhood air quality

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Black carbon -- a contributor to global warming and a pollutant of concern to residents in urban areas -- can be difficult to track. To address this problem, researchers at Berkeley Lab generated a technology that didn't exist. With more than 100 custom-built sensors installed for 100 days, the team created the largest black carbon monitoring network to be deployed in a single city, setting a foundation for the future of air quality monitoring.

Journal: Environmental Science & Technology
Funder: Environmental Defense Fund

Learning to look

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A team led by JGI scientists has overhauled the perception of inovirus diversity. Using machine learning, they identified more than 10,000 inovirus-like sequences compared to the 56 previously known genomes of these filamentous viruses. The results revealed inoviruses are in every major microbial habitat -- including soil, water, and humans -- around the world.

Journal: Nature Microbiology
Funder: US Department of Energy's Office of Science

A day in the life of a dark matter data wrangler

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Maria Elena Monzani spends most of her work day preparing scientists around the globe to analyze data from a future experiment designed to detect signals of elusive dark matter particles -- the stuff you don't see when you look into the night sky, although it makes up about 85% of all matter in the universe.

New laws of attraction: Scientists print magnetic liquid droplets

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists at Berkeley Lab have made a new material that is both liquid and magnetic, opening the door to a new area of science in magnetic soft matter. The new material could lead to a revolutionary class of printable liquid devices for a variety of applications from artificial cells that deliver targeted cancer therapies to flexible liquid robots that can change their shape to adapt to their surroundings.

Journal: Science

A graphene superconductor that plays more than one tune

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at the US Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have developed a graphene device that's thinner than a human hair but has a depth of special traits. It easily switches from a superconducting material that conducts electricity without losing any energy, to an insulator that resists the flow of electric current, and back again to a superconductor -- all with a simple flip of a switch.

Journal: Nature

After blasting a molecule with light, researchers watch its structure change in real time

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

A new study describes how a team of researchers watched a molecule vibrate after they excited it with ultraviolet light.

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