COSMIC, a multipurpose X-ray instrument at Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source, has made headway in the scientific community since its launch less than 2 years ago, with groundbreaking contributions in fields ranging from batteries to biominerals.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: HPC Explorations of Supernova Explosions Help Physicists Reach New Milestones
Physicists have been studying the question of how supernova explosions occur for more than 60 years. Thanks to the increasing power of supercomputing resources such as those at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center at Lawrence Berkel…
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: On the Line: Watching Nanoparticles Get in Shape
Berkeley Lab scientists have captured real-time, high-resolution videos of liquid structures taking shape as nanoparticles form a solid-like layer at the interface between oil and water. Their findings could help advance all-liquid robotics for targete…
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: A Sponge to Soak Up Carbon Dioxide in the Air
Increasingly, scientists are recognizing that negative emissions technologies (NETs) to remove and sequester carbon dioxide from the atmosphere will be an essential component in the strategy to mitigate climate change. Lawrence Berkeley National Labora…
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Researchers Hunt for New Particles in Particle Collider Data
Berkeley Lab researchers participated in a study that used machine learning to scan for new particles in three years of particle-collision data from CERN’s ATLAS detector.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Experts: Electric Grid Researchers Available to Discuss Grid Reliability and Resiliency
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Advisory Committee Releases Strategic Plan for U.S. Fusion, Plasma Program
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Applying Quantum Computing to a Particle Process
A team of researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) used a quantum computer to successfully simulate an aspect of particle collisions that is typically neglected in high-energy physics experiments, such as those that occur at …
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Superfacility Model Brings COVID Research Into Real Time
Finding a way to end the coronavirus pandemic has required a global response from thousands of people across scientific, medical, academic, and political entities. Among them are scientists working at NERSC and SLAC’s LCLS, who teamed up to capture ima…
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Discoveries at the Edge of the Periodic Table: First Ever Measurements of Einsteinium
Since element 99 – einsteinium – was discovered in 1952 at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) from the debris of the first hydrogen bomb, scientists have performed very few experiments with it because it is …