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| Oct 8, 2026 | Super Intelligence for Particle Accelerators Gets Another Boost | In the next phase, MOAT-Core will deploy Osprey’s capabilities at additional accelerators across the DOE complex and expand the tool to connect to digital twins and assist in accelerator design. By applying all of the information the SI lea... |
| Sep 11, 2026 | Расширяющаяся Вселенная — это растяжение имеющегося пространства или же она создаёт новое пространство? | Модель «булки с изюмом» для описания расширяющейся Вселенной: относительные расстояния увеличиваются по мере расширения пространства («теста»). Чем дальше друг от друга находятся любые две изюмины, тем больше будет наблюдаемое красное смеще... |
| Sep 10, 2026 | Gravitational Wave Detectors Offer First Direct Window on Mountain-Mass Dark Matter | By Edward Northmore Published: Sep 10 2026, 3:37 PM EDT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Share on Flipboard |
| Aug 26, 2026 | How the Advanced Light Source Is Accelerating Our Quantum Future | Key Takeaways Quantum materials are key to advancing next-generation electronics, information technologies, and quantum computers. For over 30 years, world-leading X-ray tools and experts at the ALS have helped researchers from all over the... |
| Aug 24, 2026 | Planning a New Era of Discovery with the Upgraded Advanced Light Source | Scientists around the world use the focused beams of light generated by the Advanced Light Source (ALS) synchrotron to study molecules and materials with atomic precision — yielding fundamental insights into fields ranging from physics to b... |
| Aug 22, 2026 | Известное исследование содержит ошибку: Вселенная не является анизотропной | Вид с Земли на небольшой участок Вселенной в районе северного галактического полюса, где каждый пиксель изображения соответствует нанесённой на карту галактике. В самых больших масштабах Вселенная одинакова во всех направлениях и во всех до... |
| Aug 19, 2026 | Dark Machine Locks October Premiere: BUCK-TICK’s First Anime Theme Since Sakurai | By Ronald Holman Published: Aug 19 2026, 4:57 PM EDT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Share on Flipboard |
| Aug 11, 2026 | Berkeley Lab Technology Wins R&D 100 Award | An advanced medical imaging technology from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has been honored with a 2026 R&D 100 Award. The award, presented by R&D Magazine and selected by ... |
| Aug 11, 2026 | DESI Legacy Surveys Releases 5.6-Trillion-Pixel Universe Atlas; Rubin, Roman Benefit | By Benjamin Eddie Published: Aug 11 2026, 8:52 AM EDT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Share on Flipboard |
| Aug 10, 2026 | Scientists Release Biggest 2D Map of the Universe | Covering roughly 75% of the sky in visible and near-infrared light, the updated map provides a deep view of the extragalactic universe not blocked by the dust and stars of our own Milky Way. Researchers expect it will remain the most compre... |
| Aug 2, 2026 | Moonquakes Can Map Hidden Lunar Ice 2,625 Feet Down Before First Drill | By Clayton Lewis Published: Aug 02 2026, 1:57 PM EDT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Share on Flipboard |
| Jul 28, 2026 | GRETA Comes Online for a New Era of Nuclear Science | Key Takeaways The Gamma-Ray Energy Tracking Array successfully completed a first commissioning and characterization run and is ready to begin scientific operations at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams. As the world’s most advanced gamma-r... |
| Jul 24, 2026 | Physicists Named Dark Energy After This Film: Fifth Element Returns to IMAX | By John Bright Published: Jul 24 2026, 10:45 AM EDT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Share on Flipboard |
| Jul 24, 2026 | Meta Open-Source AI Cuts DOE Beamline Analysis From a Month to Minutes | By Devin Culbertson Published: Jul 24 2026, 5:54 AM EDT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Share on Flipboard |
| Jul 23, 2026 | Wino Dark Matter Ruled Out, Higgsino Remains: CERN Workshop Charts Path for CTAO | By Clayton Lewis Published: Jul 23 2026, 8:25 AM EDT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Share on Flipboard |
| Jul 22, 2026 | Genesis Mission Selects First AI Research Cohort Spanning Fifty US States | By Scott McCain Published: Jul 22 2026, 5:28 PM EDT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Share on Flipboard |
| Jul 17, 2026 | Cyclotron Road Welcomes 11 New Entrepreneurial Fellows | The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced the 2026 cohort of scientists and engineers selected to join Cyclotron Road at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). Cyclotron Road is one of four nodes in the DOE Office of ... |
| Jul 15, 2026 | How the Genesis Mission’s American Science Cloud Advances Innovation | As the Director of the Scientific Networking Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and Executive Director of the Energy Sciences Network (ESnet), Inder Monga is an expert in keeping the flow of scientific data run... |
| May 27, 2026 | Stacking Up for the Future: How Researchers Are Building Next-Gen Quantum Computers | Q: What are the most important scientific challenges that these first-gen systems will help scientists solve that classical computers can’t today? At AQT, a lot of the work that we do is focused on using first-generation quantum systems to ... |
| May 8, 2026 | Berkeley Lab’s Kristin Persson Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences | Kristin Persson, a Daniel M. Tellep Distinguished Professor in Materials Science and Engineering at UC Berkeley and faculty senior scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), has been elected to the American Academy o... |
| May 6, 2026 | UC Names Katherine Yelick to Head Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | The University of California Board of Regents today (May 5) approved Katherine Yelick as the next director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). Her appointment as director begins on July 1. Yelick is a leading computer s... |
| Mar 17, 2026 | Solving a Mystery in Dark Matter Detectors Could Improve Quantum Computers | Although dark matter makes up most of the mass in our universe, it has never been directly observed. To hunt for lighter dark matter and other rare phenomena, researchers must solve a puzzle in their supersensitive detectors: an unexpected ... |
| Feb 12, 2026 | Crunching Big Data Into 3D Images Accelerates Discovery | Key Takeaways Large, complex datasets collected at the Advanced Light Source can now be processed a hundred times faster than before, at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), a high-performance computing (HPC) fa... |
| Feb 11, 2026 | New AI Sensor ‘Sniffs’ Out Spectral Targets | Meet the sniffer dog of spectroscopy tools: an AI-enhanced sensor that can “sniff and seek” target objects in real-time. Spectral imaging tools — cameras that capture colors beyond the RGB spectrum visible to our eyes — are vital for gleani... |
| Feb 2, 2026 | How a Machine Learning Pipeline Could Accelerate Innovation | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) is working to transform petabytes of imaging data from advanced light and neutron scattering user facilities in the U.S. into actionable knowledge, demonstrating AI-accelerated advanced d... |
| Feb 2, 2026 | Foundational AI Models to Accelerate Biological Discovery | Researchers from four national laboratories and industry are collaborating to unleash the full potential of biology for manufacturing fuels, chemicals, and consumer goods, and to harness biological systems as tools for agriculture and criti... |
| Jan 15, 2026 | Leading the Field in Magnets | Over the decades, magnet research and development has brought together scientists, engineers, and technicians from across Berkeley Lab, particularly from the Accelerator Technology & Applied Physics (ATAP), Engineering, and Nuclear Scie... |
| Jan 6, 2026 | From Nano to Nobel: National Lab Researchers Use MOFs to Solve Big Problems | Building on the foundational Nobel Prize-winning work, researchers at Berkeley Lab and its DOE user facilities continue to push MOF technology to address major global challenges. For example, at the ALS, a team led by Yaghi traced how MOFs ... |
| Dec 18, 2025 | Scientists Build ‘Speed Scanner’ to Test Thousands of Plant Gene Switches at Once | After developing the approach, the team demonstrated its unprecedented speed for real-world investigations. They used ENTRAP-seq to study gene regulation in a transcription activator known to mediate expression of a gene that controls flowe... |
| Sep 24, 2025 | Electron Microscopy Reveals New Method to Make Exotic Metal Alloys | Humans have been making metal alloys for thousands of years, and most of us can conjure a rough mental image of the process – it involves red-hot molten metals being mixed, poured, and shaped in a sweltering workshop or factory. This approa... |
| Aug 25, 2025 | Building the GHG accounting toolbox: Arva scales payouts for regenerative ag | Does regenerative agriculture pay? In a word, yes, says Arva CEO Jay McEntire. “We paid out $20 million to farmers engaging in regenerative practices in 2023, $40 million-plus in 2024, and we’ll pay out more this year.” And to those who see... |
| Aug 6, 2025 | Jennifer Doudna Wins American Chemical Society’s Priestley Award | Jennifer Doudna has been named the recipient of the 2026 Priestley Medal, the highest honor bestowed by the American Chemical Society (ACS), for her high-impact discoveries on RNA molecules with enzymatic functions, including the developmen... |
| Jul 15, 2025 | Cyclotron Road Welcomes 12 New Entrepreneurial Fellows | The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced the 2025 cohort of scientists and engineers selected to join Cyclotron Road – a DOE Lab-Embedded Entrepreneurship Program (LEEP) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). Now ... |
| Jun 25, 2025 | Jay Keasling Named 2025 Department of Energy/National Academy of Inventors Innovator of the Year | The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Technology Commercialization (OTC), in partnership with the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), honored Jay Keasling, senior faculty scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berk... |
| Apr 25, 2025 | Scientists Develop Solar-Powered Artificial Leaf That Turns Carbon Dioxide into Liquid Fuel | By Jose Enrico Published: Apr 25 2025, 03:40 AM EDT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Share on Flipboard |
| Apr 23, 2025 | Seven Ways Berkeley Lab is Pioneering the Quantum Future | Quantum information systems are poised to revolutionize scientific discovery, computing, sensing, communications, and beyond. Quantum computers, for example, could someday perform calculations surpassing the capabilities of today’s classica... |
| Apr 3, 2025 | The Future of Healthcare: VSee Health's AI Revolution | The healthcare landscape is shifting. VSee Health, a trailblazer in telehealth, is leading this transformation. With a market value of $787 billion, digital healthcare is ripe for innovation. VSee Health is not just a player; it’s a game-ch... |
| Apr 2, 2025 | Einstein called it his “biggest blunder.” Now a Berkeley Lab breakthrough is shedding light on the mysteries of dark energy and cosmic expansion | “We expected to get a better measure of that accelerated expansion, and it’s not at all what we found,” said Claire Poppett, a research physicist with UC Berkeley’s Space Science Laboratory working on DESI in Santiago, Chile. “It confirms, ... |
| Mar 28, 2025 | 🎥From scissors to search-and-replace: Pairwise CEO on the promise of gene editing in ag | CRISPR-Cas9 technology—often billed as “programmable DNA scissors”—first hit the headlines in 2012. Since then, it has been used in everything from cancer research to making more productive cells for cultivated meat. But what is the potenti... |
| Jan 7, 2025 | Berkeley Lab’s Jennifer Doudna Awarded National Medal of Technology and Innovation | Biochemist Jennifer Doudna, a faculty scientist at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), founder of the Innovative Genomics Institute, and a professor at UC Berkeley, has received the National Meda... |
| Dec 11, 2024 | Milestone 10-GeV Experiment Shines Light on Laser-Plasma Interactions | The gas jet system has another benefit: resilience. Because the sheet of gas has no parts to break, the technology can scale to very high repetition rates, which the lab is working toward for future particle colliders and applications. Rese... |
| Nov 20, 2024 | New DESI Results Weigh In On Gravity | The study also provided new upper limits on the mass of neutrinos, the only fundamental particles whose masses have not yet been precisely measured. Previous neutrino experiments found that the sum of the masses of the three types of neutri... |
| Sep 17, 2024 | Pairwise: Cultivating the Future of Agriculture with Gene Editing | In the heart of Durham, North Carolina, a revolution is brewing. Pairwise, a technology company at the forefront of gene editing, has just secured $40 million in Series C funding. This latest round, led by Deerfield Management, pushes their... |
| Sep 17, 2024 | Pairwise raises $40m series C, forms JV with Corteva to accelerate gene editing on row crops | Pairwise, a startup pioneering gene editing in plants, has closed a $40m series C funding round and formed a five-year joint venture collaboration with agtech giant Corteva to advance the tech to increase climate resilience in corn and soy.... |
| Sep 3, 2024 | New National Energy Storage Hub Will Enable Transformative Battery Advancements | Adapted from a news release by the Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory. Today the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced the creation of two new Energy Innovation Hubs. One of the national hubs, the Energy Storage Research... |
| Aug 30, 2024 | New Process Vaporizes Plastic Bags and Bottles, Yielding Gases to Make New, Recycled Plastics | Adapted from a release by Robert Sanders at UC Berkeley A new chemical process can essentially vaporize plastics that dominate the waste stream today and turn them into hydrocarbon building blocks for new plastics. The catalytic process, de... |
| Aug 8, 2024 | R&D 100 Awards Honor Two Berkeley Lab Innovations | Two innovative technologies from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have been honored with a 2024 R&D 100 Award. The award, presented by R&D Magazine and selected by an indepen... |
| Aug 7, 2024 | A Better Understanding of DNA Unpacking | Adapted from a release by Université Laval. To transcribe the information contained in our genes or to repair the dozens of breaks that occur daily in our DNA, our enzymes must be able to directly access the DNA to perform their functions. ... |
| Jun 12, 2024 | CRISPR and the new era of precision plant breeding: In conversation with Pairwise CEO Dr. Tom Adams | CRISPR-Cas9 technology—billed as ‘programmable DNA scissors’— first hit the headlines in 2012. Since then, it has been used to create everything from pig kidneys that can be transplanted into humans to treatments for sickle cell disease. Bu... |
| Apr 12, 2024 | California’s Very Good Climate Week | WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW: California racked up a series of big climate wins this week, including new technology that cuts emissions from making cement and groundbreaking a clean energy project in tribal communities. SACRAMENTO – This was a ver... |
| Dec 9, 2023 | This week in AI: Mistral and the EU’s fight for AI sovereignty | Keeping up with an industry as fast-moving as AI is a tall order. So until an AI can do it for you, here’s a handy roundup of recent stories in the world of machine learning, along with notable research and experiments we didn’t cover on th... |
| Oct 16, 2023 | Создание карт радиоактивности с помощью собак-роботов | Учёные из Национальной лаборатории имени Лоуренса в Беркли (Berkeley Lab) обучают собак-роботов выискивать радиоактивные участки с помощью набора датчиков на спине. Проект ещё не завершён, но идея полезная и многообещающая. В 2013 году иссл... |
| Oct 3, 2023 | Radio Telescope Will Fly to the Moon to Listen for Signals From the 'Dark Ages' of the Universe | Jace Dela Cruz, Tech Times 03 October 2023, 02:10 am To explore a nearly 400-million-year gap in the universe's history known as the Dark Ages, researchers are embarking on a pioneering project named the Lunar Surface Electromagnetics Exper... |
| Oct 3, 2023 | Инженеры планируют поместить телескоп на обратной стороне Луны уже в 2025 году | На этой иллюстрации художник показывает LuSEE-Night на космическом аппарате Blue Ghost, который должен доставить эксперимент на дальнюю сторону Луны. В ближайшие годы Луна станет популярным объектом для космических программ во всём мире. К ... |
| Jun 22, 2023 | В поисках материи, скрывающей свой блеск | Если материя видима, это не значит, что её легко увидеть Исследования космоса показывают, что большая часть материи, составляющей Вселенную, представляет собой тёмную материю — так её называют потому, что она не излучает и не отражает свет.... |
| Apr 23, 2023 | AI, Robots Increase Research Lab's Speed by 100x! A-Lab is Now Autonomous | Griffin Davis , Tech Times 23 April 2023, 09:04 am AI and robots increased the speed of a material research laboratory by 100 times! (Photo: Photo by Jon Cherry/Getty Images) Lisa Bates, a medical technologist see, seen through the window o... |
| Mar 27, 2023 | Wanted: Entrepreneurs To Adopt National Labs’ Climate Technologies | Industry and technology concept. INDUSTRY 4.0getty |
| Mar 8, 2023 | Researchers develop polymer coating for longer-lasting batteries | Scientists at the US Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have developed a conductive polymer coating that could enable longer-lasting and more powerful lithium-ion batteries for EVs. The lab explains in a press rele... |
| Nov 25, 2022 | Meet 5 startups working to harness the Earth’s heat to save the planet | There are a few sources of power that are “free” here on Earth, namely wind, solar, hydro, and geothermal. Humans have been tapping hydro and wind for millennia, and we’re getting pretty good at harnessing the power of the sun. But with geo... |
| Oct 18, 2022 | What’s holding up utility-scale energy storage development? | What’s holding up utility-scale energy storage development? By Contributing Author October 18, 2022 " class="author-button">View Profile Why aren’t there more energy storage projects like this 4.99 MW/10 MWh front-of-the-m... |
| Sep 27, 2022 | The universe is a dangerous place. NASA just showed it’s possible to defend Earth against it. | At 7:14 EDT Monday night, something historic happened for the human species — and it took place more than 7 million miles from our planet. NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft successfully collided with the asteroid moo... |
| Aug 27, 2022 | Perceptron: Face-tracking ‘earables,’ analog AI chips and accelerating particle accelerators | Research in the field of machine learning and AI, now a key technology in practically every industry and company, is far too voluminous for anyone to read it all. This column, Perceptron, aims to collect some of the most relevant recent dis... |
| Jul 25, 2022 | Jetfuel from Bacterias Eating Amino Acids? Researchers Discover New Biofuel Source | Isaiah Richard, Tech Times 25 July 2022, 05:07 am There is a new player in town, and it is the form of biofuel building blocks that would help bring more energy density for rockets and aircraft from bacteria or antifungal molecules. The stu... |
| May 19, 2022 | This super-smart tech could cut CPU thermals by 150% | Scientists may have found the answer to smaller and faster chips that could usher in the future of processors, and that answer might be using silicon-28 nanowires. Although the technology was initially dismissed as not very effective, furth... |
| Feb 17, 2022 | Carbon is not a dirty word: the case for recarbonizing our soils | Karn Manhas is CEO and founder at Terramera, based in Vancouver, Canada. I spent much of last year speaking to global leaders about agriculture’s role in turning back the clock on climate change, and two things were consistent throughout: g... |
| Jan 15, 2022 | Most Detailed 3D Map of the Universe To Arrive, Thanks to DESI—7.5 Million Galaxies Already Charted | Griffin Davis , Tech Times 15 January 2022, 12:01 pm The most detailed 3D map of the universe is now being developed by DESI (Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument). This giant space research instrument is currently stationed in the Nicholas... |
| Nov 10, 2021 | Methane's Short Lifespan Presents Golden Opportunity to Quickly Address Climate Change | Oil and gas fields in Elk Hills, California are part of Berkeley Lab's SUMMATION project on methane monitoring. (Credit: Andrew Moyes/Berkeley Lab) Sébastien Biraud is a Berkeley Lab scientist leading an effort to identify and mitigate some... |
| Aug 26, 2021 | ABPDU Celebrates a Decade of Bio-Innovation | [Link] A panoramic view of laboratory space inside the ABPDU facility, located in Emeryville, CA. (Credit: Roy Kaltschmidt/Berkeley Lab) -By Emily Scott Ten years ago, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory announced the opening of a brand n... |
| Jul 27, 2021 | Alienware Claims It Can’t Sell High-End Desktop PCs in 6 US States | New regulations have gone into effect in California, Colorado, Hawaii, Oregon, Vermont, and Washington that prevent Alienware from continuing to ship high-end desktops to customers that live in these locations, the company said. While Alien... |
| Apr 13, 2021 | U.S. Power Sector is Halfway to Zero Carbon Emissions | - By Kiran Julin and Bentham Paulos Concerns about climate change are driving a growing number of states, utilities, and corporations to set the goal of zeroing out power-sector carbon emissions. To date 17 states plus Washington, D.C. and ... |
| Apr 2, 2021 | Cleantech Roundup: JinkoSolar, MIT, Jeep, and more | Another week, another bunch of announcements! To stay up to date on what’s new, check out this latest cleantech product roundup:New DG modules China-based PV manufacturer JinkoSolar launched a new series of solar modules for distributed gen... |
| Mar 25, 2021 | How Microorganisms Can Help Us Get to Net Negative Emissions | Many of the common items we use in our everyday lives - from building materials to plastics to pharmaceuticals - are manufactured from fossil fuels. To reduce our reliance on fossil fuels and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, society has inc... |
| Dec 17, 2020 | Healthy Homes: How a Little-known Delaware Program for Septic Tanks Can Be Replicated to Help Low-Income Families Get Energy Efficiency and Drinking Water Upgrades | SHADY COVE, Ore. (PRWEB) December 17, 2020 PACENation, the nonprofit organization that advocates for expanded access to financing for clean energy, clean drinking water and resilience upgrades, released today a white paper titled The Health... |
| Jul 22, 2019 | No human waste at Kauai beaches, study finds, but community groups disagree | A new study using novel technology has found historically high bacteria counts at two major beaches in southeastern Kauai are not related to human waste, according to the state Health Department. But community groups on Kauai have come forw... |
| Jun 18, 2019 | There Are 6 'Strongest Materials' On Earth That Are Harder Than Diamonds | Atomic and molecular configurations come in a near-infinite number of possible combinations, but the... [+] specific combinations found in any material determine its properties. While diamonds are classically viewed as the hardest material ... |
| May 8, 2019 | Scientists on the verge of creating 100 percent recyclable plastic | Originally Published by: Archaeologists found 1,000-year-old cocaine in an ancient drug stash NASA will test asteroid defenses by slamming a spacecraft into a space rock in 2022 Massive dust storms may have sucked Martian water away We’re s... |
| Aug 11, 2017 | Will Trump's Paris agreement exit spur job growth? | President Donald Trump's move to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris climate accord will, critics of the global treaty say, spur job growth and lower Americans' energy costs. Are they right? Most experts think not. Indeed, shifting to a clean-... |
| Jan 21, 2017 | A really obscure forgotten audio format: “Talking rubber” | reader comments 74 with 50 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit “Hi, you’ve reached Eran. Please leave a message, and I’ll get back to you.” That’s my voicemail message on my cell phone t... |
| Aug 10, 2016 | Berkeley Lab gets the go-ahead for its 5,000-robot 3D galaxy mapping project | You don’t do things halfway when it comes to tasks like mapping the light of millions of galaxies. That sort of job requires a fairly massive undertaking like, say, 5,000 ten-inch cylindrical robots each measuring the width of a finger that... |
| Nov 5, 2014 | Magnesium-ion batteries could prove that two electrons are better than one | A lithium ion battery essentially works by using lithium (ions?!) to ferry electrons back and forth between a positive and a negative electrode. These are basically electrical freighters that load up with electrons on the negative side of t... |
| Oct 14, 2014 | Solar power is casting a bigger shadow | Does having your own solar power installation sound appealing? It apparently does to a growing number of American businesses and homeowners who are investing in what many tout as a cleaner and less expensive source of electricity. And that ... |
| Oct 1, 2014 | New nanoparticles get us closer to artificial photosynthesis, mass carbon capture | Researchers have long sought a way to turn the growing clouds of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere into usable energy sources, but it’s not easy to copy what plants have spent eons evolving. A new discovery at Lawrence Berkeley National Labo... |
| Mar 5, 2014 | Science gets one step closer to artificial photosynthesis | Despite our best efforts, photovoltaic solar cells are still expensive and only moderately efficient. Plants have been making electrochemical energy from the sun since time immemorial, which has led to a great deal of interest in duplicatin... |
| Apr 25, 2013 | Researchers hear telephone inventor Alexander Graham Bell’s voice for the first time (video) | One of the more bitter historical ironies is that no one knows what Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, sounded like. At least until now. Thanks to a 128-year-old recording and the scientific wizardry of Lawrence Berkeley ... |
| Aug 10, 2012 | Cheap solar panels could be made from oxidized metals | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today! Researchers at UC Berkeley have discovered that w... |
| May 15, 2012 | Berkeley scientists turn harmless virus into piezoelectric generator | Scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have created a harmless, genetically-modified virus that’s piezoelectric — in other words, it generates electricity when pressure is applied. This virus might eventually... |
| Jan 12, 2011 | World’s Toughest Known Material | A collaboration between the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the California Institute of Technology has developed a new form of metallic glass that is stronger and tougher than steel and may in fact be the wo... |
| Mar 10, 2010 | The Godfather of Energy Efficiency Gets A Unit | A group of scientists has proposed a unit of energy efficiency to be named after Arthur Rosenfeld. The Rosenfeld unit will be defined as the electricity savings of 3 billion kilowatt-hours per year — an amount that is roughly equal to the a... |
| Dec 15, 2009 | New CAT scan technology allows for 3D imaging of individual cells | Medical imaging is an interesting field. There are things like fMRI, PET scans, CAT scans, radioactive dye traces, and a million other different techniques — but they’re usually so limited and specific (as extraordinary as they are) that th... |
| Астрономы создали крупнейшую 3D-карту Вселенной | Александра Кукуть 17 января 2022, 14:56 2022-01-17 Астрономы создали крупнейшую 3D-карту Вселенной Американские учёные создали самую крупную и подробную на сегодняшний день трёхмерную карту галактик во Вселенной. В этом им помог астрономиче... | |
| Scientists create ‘invisibility cloak’ that can make microscopic objects disappear | Do we really need invisibility cloaks like the one Harry Potter uses at Hogwarts to move around undetected? Apparently, we do. At least two projects are studying materials that can hide the objects they’re placed on, though these newfound t... | |
| Electrek green energy brief: 73¢/W for 1.18GW, coal plant protesting, Godfather of efficiency passes, more | Coal plant protesters clash with police in Bangladesh – One of the most population dense places on the planet has to figure out how to take care of its people. Coal is some of the cheapest and dirtiest sources of electricity on the planet –... | |
| Solar powered homes worth up to $15,000 more – 10+ northeast USA cities under focus | A recent analysis by Redfin and Sun Number, has rated 10+ cities in the northeast based on their solar power potential. Sun Number is a U.S. Department of Energy SunShot-funded startup that has developed a patented automatic process for hel... | |
| Boeing запустила к МКС Starliner, Google построила изолирующий кампус для работников. Техдайджест | Отдел новостей 22 мая 2022, 19:07 Boeing запустила к МКС Starliner, Google построила изолирующий кампус для работников. Техдайджест Каждую неделю собираем новости технологий, видео и ссылки на полезные статьи. Оставить комментарий... | |
| EGEB: Solar(not)World wants blood; Microgrids in the Caribbean; Berkeley pushing solar cybersecurity; more | Electrek Green Energy Brief: A daily technical, financial and political review/analysis of important green energy news. Featured Image Source Suniva and SolarWorld lower requested remedies in US trade case – Suniva has lowered its floorpric... | |
| EGEB: 39% fear human extinction, Natives sue frackers, yuge iceberg calving soon, more | Electrek Green Energy Brief: A daily technical, financial and political review/analysis of important green energy news. Climate Change in the American Mind: May 2017 – Four in ten Americans (39%) think the odds that global warming will caus... |
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