How to Catch a Perfect Wave: Scientists Take a Closer Look Inside the Perfect Fluid
September 16th, 2021Scientists have reported new clues to solving a cosmic conundrum: How the quark-gluon plasma – nature’s perfect fluid – evolved into the building blocks of matter during the birth of the early universe.
Unprecedented Plasma Lensing for High-Intensity Lasers
September 9th, 2021New research on plasma lensing at BELLA helps confirm laser plasma accelerators can be scaled up as BELLA Center pushes toward higher energies
Berkeley Lab, UC Berkeley, Caltech to Build Quantum Network Testbed
August 31st, 2021Five-year, $12.5 million U.S. Department of Energy project will help pave the way for a nationwide quantum Internet
New Report Shows Technology Advancement and Value of Wind Energy
August 30th, 2021Wind energy continues to see strong growth, solid performance, and low prices in the U.S., according to a report released by the U.S. Department of Energy and prepared by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. With levelized costs of just over $30 per megawatt-hour (MWh) for newly built projects, the cost of wind is well below its grid-system, health, and climate benefits.
ABPDU Celebrates a Decade of Bio-Innovation
August 26th, 2021-By Emily Scott Ten years ago, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory announced the opening of a brand new, 15,000-square-foot facility full of stainless steel state-of-the-art bioprocessing equipment – what we now know as the Advanced Biofuels and Bioproducts Process Development Unit, or ABPDU, was
LED Material Shines Under Strain
August 26th, 2021With a simple stretch, a thin semiconductor material can achieve near 100% light-emission efficiency at all brightness levels. The discovery, reported by scientists at Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley in the journal Science, has implications for energy-efficient mobile devices and lighting applications.
Mountains of Data: An Unprecedented Climate Observatory to Understand the Future of Water
August 24th, 2021Mountain watersheds provide 60 to 90% of water resources worldwide, but there is still much that scientists don’t know about the physical processes and interactions that affect hydrology in these ecosystems. Now a team of scientists led by Berkeley Lab aims to plug that gap, with an ambitious campaign to collect a vast array of measurements that will allow scientists to better understand the future of water in the West.