|
Home > News > Tags > Berkeley Lab
|
|
30
Stories about: Berkeley Lab |
|
|
More: next 50 >>
A group of investigators in the United States announced the development of an advanced material, whose electrons do not couple with, or get scattered by, the quantized vibrational energy of crystalline materials, called phonons. Though they are energy, phonons are treated in mathematics as particles. This makes it e... |
15 May 2012
05:06 GMT |
 |
|
Being able to recharge your mobile devices as you do everyday tasks is something that was recently brought closer to reality by experts at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab).
Scientists here announce the creation of an electricity generator that uses harmles... |
14 May 2012
04:58 GMT |
|
|
Producing electricity from heavy-ion fusion has been a goal in the international physics community for years. A new facility built in the United States could finally help investigators achieve this goal, by providing more data on how to accelerate, compress and focus intense ion beams.
The installation is called th... |
9 May 2012
05:40 GMT |
|
|
Physicists in the United States have taken an important step forward toward enabling the scientific community to observe physical, chemical and biological phenomena at the nanoscale in real-time. Recently, they have produced a series of videos showing how platinum nanocrystals grow. The work was carried out by expe... |
20 April 2012
08:50 GMT |
|
|
In a first-of-its-kind experiment, researchers were able to determine the pathways used by electrical charges, as they are transported from one molecule to the next, inside organic thin films. The finding could lead to the development of brighter organic electronic devices.
But perhaps the most significant implicat... |
22 March 2012
07:15 GMT |
|
|
A group of scientists led by experts at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) announces the discovery of a new type of proton transfer taking place between molecules. This finding could pave the way for the creation of new technologies in the fields of environ... |
19 March 2012
08:48 GMT |
|
|
Physicists with a multinational collaboration announce that they were recently able to measure the last unknown mixing angle of elementary particles called neutrinos with extreme precision. The work may open a new way of analyzing particle physics.
As their names imply, neutrinos are electrically-neutral elementary ... |
8 March 2012
06:01 GMT |
|
|
Scientists at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) say that black carbon can also promote global warming by reducing the reflectance of snow and ice. Usually, sunlight gets reflected back to space in higher amounts during the winter.
The new discovery is unfo... |
6 March 2012
14:21 GMT |
|
|
A team of experts at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) was recently able to provide an accurate explanation for the weird behavior that gold displays at the nanoscale, when heated atop a silicon surface.
The bizarre patterns were first observed by a Berkel... |
2 March 2012
03:11 GMT |
|
|
US Department of Energy (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) experts announce the development of a technique that induces nanoscale crystal rods to self-assemble into uni-, bi-, and three-dimensional structures at the macroscopic scale.
The achievement is extremely important, especially consid... |
2 February 2012
05:04 GMT |
|
|
Scientists with the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) announce the discovery of a new type of circular cellular motion, exhibited by cells in the breast tissue. This type of movement is apparently essential for forming acini.
These are spherical structures tha... |
27 January 2012
08:05 GMT |
|
|
The US Department of Energy (DOE), the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and General Motors (GM) have just set aside $2.1 million for a three-year grant destined to researchers investigating how to create a fuel cell capable of powering a car for 300 miles on a single charge.
Storing large amount... |
27 January 2012
06:05 GMT |
|
|
A group of experts at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) were recently able to produce the first 3D image of an individual protein ever obtained.
This was made possible when scientists at the lab's Molecular Foundry pushed their Zeiss Libra 120 Cryo-T... |
25 January 2012
16:31 GMT |
|
|
For the past 12 years or so, the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys, part I, II and III, have been continuously analyzing the night sky, in an attempt to create digital 3D maps of how matter is distributed throughout. At this point, experts are trying to calculate how cosmic mass clumps up together based on these data.
At th... |
12 January 2012
14:01 GMT |
|
|
An international team of experts including scientists from the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) is currently testing to see whether depleted natural gas reservoirs can be used as carbon sequestration facilities in the long run.
Their proof-of-concept experimen... |
6 January 2012
05:14 GMT |
|
|
Concrete made with Portland cement is the second-most used material in the world by volume, exceeded only by water. Its production process releases massive amounts of carbon dioxide, and so replacing it requires a deeper understanding of its structure at the nanoscale.
This was the purpose of a new study conducted ... |
13 December 2011
04:34 GMT |
|
|
Investigators in the United States were recently able to develop a new technique for stripping structures called nanocrystals of unnecessary appendages. These tether-like molecules were hanging on to the crystals, preventing their incorporation within numerous classes of devices.
The research was carried out by exp... |
9 December 2011
08:09 GMT |
|
|
As climate models become increasingly more complex and precise, they also become potentially more useful for predicting the strength and intensity of hurricane seasons. Focusing on such small-scale events is however very difficult with appropriate tools. And these tools are now being developed.
“We’re ... |
7 December 2011
10:26 GMT |
|
|
An expert at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) now proposes a new explanation for why the obesity wave currently sweeping America is causing more and more victims.
At this point, officials statics indicated that as many as 34 percent of all citizens in the ... |
24 November 2011
08:42 GMT |
|
|
Scientists at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) announce that they were recently able to reveal the secrets of a bacteria known for its ability to remove toxic and radioactive materials from the environment.
While researchers learned about the microorganis... |
10 November 2011
03:25 GMT |
|
|
Biofuels, wind farms, batteries, solar power plants, geothermal facilities and osmotic power plants are just some of the clean energy technologies being pursued today. In a new study, experts in the United States will attempt to determine which of these approaches to clean energy is actually worth pursuing.
The dete... |
2 November 2011
05:52 GMT |
|
|
A group of investigators at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) announces that a new cost model for the development and wide-scale implementation of hydrogen fuel cells is now in the works.
The study is meant to address the issues of complexity and elevated ... |
2 November 2011
04:49 GMT |
|
|
A group of investigators at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) announces the development of a new cellular patterning method, which enables researchers to reach an unprecedented degree of accuracy in spatial pattern studies.
Scientists determined some time ... |
1 November 2011
05:43 GMT |
|
|
Leading semiconductor manufacturers and experts at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have recently joined forces to create a microscope capable of conducting photolithography, one of the most important aspects of creating microchips.
The purpose of this... |
29 October 2011
04:49 GMT |
|
|
A collaboration of scientists from the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) announces that it has observed for the first time the mechanisms that slim sheets of protein-like structures use in order to self-assemble. By emulating and replicating this process, it may... |
18 October 2011
06:53 GMT |
|
|
Winning a famous award is always satisfying, and even more so if your are a scientists who has just been recognized with a Nobel Prize. This short video shows how physicists Saul Perlmutter was honored by his university after if was announced that he won the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Perlmutter is a crucial me... |
6 October 2011
06:20 GMT |
|
|
For several years, astrophysicists have been saying that Type Ia supernova events are caused by white dwarf stars accreting mass until they exceed stability thresholds, which caused them to blow up. Now, a new investigation shows that the explosions are in fact produced by white dwarf mergers.
This class of cosmi... |
5 October 2011
06:09 GMT |
|
|
Back in January 2010, the small Caribbean island of Haiti was struck mercilessly by an intense earthquake that killed as many as 230,000 people. One of its consequences was that even cooking became a perilous activity. Berkeley Lab experts now seek to develop cookstoves for these people.
The research team, based a... |
29 September 2011
03:57 GMT |
|
|
A group of researchers in the United States announces the development of two new types of microbes, which could be used to produce a type of advanced biofuel capable of replacing the standard diesel used in vehicle engines today.
The new chemical has a wide variety of advantages over existing fuel, such as for ex... |
28 September 2011
05:03 GMT |
|
|
US Department of Energy (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) physicists announce the development of a new approach to improving lithium-ion batteries, the most common portable energy-storing devices in use today.
While these batteries provide acceptable performances for cell phones, laptops,... |
23 September 2011
10:40 GMT |
|
|
In a remarkable advancement, investigators in the United States were able to produce a new type of coating material based on semiconductor nanocrystals. According to the team, this innovation could be used to control heat coming from the Sun, while allowing surfaces to remain transparent.
What this implies is tha... |
7 September 2011
07:48 GMT |
|
|
A group of investigators in the United States announces the development of a system that represents the first demonstration of light and plasmon coupling in the carbon compound called graphene. The work also sets the foundation for using graphene as a basis for new generations of metamaterials.
This investigation... |
5 September 2011
02:37 GMT |
|
|
Experts at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) announce the development of a new technology for scrutinizing the interior of electronic components, called Hard X-ray Angle-Resolved PhotoEmission Spectroscopy (HARPES).This method is a variation of Angle-Resolve... |
25 August 2011
05:03 GMT |
|
|
Physicists with the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) say that they are currently working on validating laser plasma accelerator technologies. If successful, their efforts could lead to the establishment of a new class of scientific devices, which could replace ... |
23 August 2011
03:33 GMT |
|
|
The US Department of Energy (DOE)’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) just inaugurated a new research facility, whose main purpose is to boost the country's leadership in biofuel research. The installation is dedicated to studying all aspects of converting biomass to fuel. The new center... |
19 August 2011
04:22 GMT |
|
|
A group of researchers at the US Department of Energy (DOE)’s Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI), led by biochemist Nathan Hillson, announces the development of a new software for DNA construction that is also capable of identifying the most cost-effective solutions.Hillson has been paying attention to the econom... |
17 August 2011
04:44 GMT |
|
|
Investigators at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) announce the development of a new method for exercising dynamic control on the curved trajectories of Airy beams over metallic surfaces.This new advanced optics study goes against what physics students learn... |
12 August 2011
06:02 GMT |
|
|
Researchers at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) announce the development of a new source of clean, domestic energy, which they plant to put through the test next year. If everything goes well, then the United States will have a new method of producing elect... |
9 August 2011
04:11 GMT |
|
|
Back in 2006, researchers in the United States first created a remarkable alloy containing aluminum, scandium and lithium. Now, the same team managed to use advanced observations methods to figure out that nanoparticles are largely responsible for the amazing properties this material has. One of the most interesting ... |
8 August 2011
03:57 GMT |
|
|
Researchers at the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology say that they are currently testing an observations method that, if successful, could allow astronomers to observe individual black holes inside black hole binary systems. At this point, even detecting such a construct is extremely difficult, ... |
5 August 2011
10:45 GMT |
|
|
Studies experts conducted thus far have revealed that installing white roofs and roads has the potential to reduce the warming experienced in urban areas. In a new study, investigators analyze the atmospheric feedback these measures have, and conclude that they are largely positive.Past investigations did not take in... |
27 July 2011
03:43 GMT |
|
|
Since its discovery 6 years ago, graphene has been under intensive research because of the weird properties theory holds it should have. Now, new investigations are revealing that the material may in fact be even stranger than first hypothesized.For instance, experiments conducted at the Advanced Light Source (ALS) s... |
15 July 2011
10:58 GMT |
|
|
For the first time ever, a team of experts at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) managed to develop a technique that allows them to observe as single copper sulfide nanocrystal undergoes structural transformation.
If these observations can be translated in... |
9 July 2011
05:53 GMT |
|
|
A group of investigators at the US Department of Energy (DOE)’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) announce the development of a new research concept, which could lead to the creation of a portable system for highly sensitive multi-dimensional chemical analysis.Creating such a system is not a ... |
7 July 2011
06:02 GMT |
|
|
In a finding that could very change the way ovarian cancer is treated in as much as 70 percent of all patients, researchers at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) were able to decipher the string of genetic mutations that eventually leads to cancer. Their work... |
30 June 2011
08:27 GMT |
|
|
A collaboration of investigators in the United States announces the development of a new method for producing defect-free boron nitride nanoribbons (BNNR) from boron nitride nanotubes (BNNT).This approach leads to the creation of nearly-perfect BNNR, and all that is needed in order for that to happen is to insert ato... |
29 June 2011
03:07 GMT |
|
|
A collaboration of physicists in the United States announces the development of a new technique for testing nuclear materials, that could have significant practical applications. The approach is meant to ensure that nuclear power plants are operating within safety parameters. The renewed interest in nuclear safety wa... |
27 June 2011
03:07 GMT |
|
|
On Thursday, June 2, a large crowd gathered in the Aquatic Park section of the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), where it participated at the inauguration of the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis (JCAP)-North facility. The new installation joins the Pa... |
7 June 2011
03:56 GMT |
|
|
A collaboration of physicists working at the world's largest particle accelerator announce that it is possible to trap antihydrogen atoms for nearly 17 minutes inside containment chambers. In total, the ALPHA Collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) managed to trap 309 atoms, some of which endured for as... |
6 June 2011
02:15 GMT |
|
More: next 50 >> |
|
|
Find us on Google+
