Through a decade-long partnership between the ALS and NASA, researchers are studying how heat shield materials called superlight ablators degrade, informing NASA spacecraft design. Research at the ALS ...

Berkeley Lab researchers developed computational tools to process the massive datasets generated by MOSAIC, a reconfigurable microscope that combines more than ten advanced imaging techniques into one ...

New treatments for Huntington’s disease could be on the horizon soon, following research led by scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). Huntington’s disease (HD) is a fatal ...

The DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys combined more than 263,000 telescope exposures to make the largest 2D map of the universe in visible and near-infrared light. Astronomers can pair the Legacy Surveys ...

A Bose-Einstein Condensate (BEC) is a coherent quantum state in which many particles act collectively as one coherent object. Berkeley Lab researchers are the first to observe evidence for a tunable ...

Figuring out how to synthesize technologically valuable solid materials can take weeks to years of trial-and-error. A new modeling framework uses accurate ...

Graphite, the carbon center of your humble #2 pencil, is also an essential component in technologies such as batteries, smartphones, laptops, and industrial power equipment. Today, nearly all of this ...

Quantum computers have the potential to transform science, accelerating breakthroughs in drug development, cosmology, materials science, nuclear physics, and more. To make this future a reality, ...

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, one of the most extensive surveys of the cosmos ever conducted, finished all observations for its originally planned 3D map of the universe. Scientists use ...

Three projects led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) are among those selected as part of a $155 million Department of Energy (DOE) investment in American industrial innovation.

Digital twins are ultra-accurate computer-based simulations of complex physical systems used for exploring “what-if” scenarios and guiding real-time decisions in science and engineering. Berkeley Lab ...

Berkeley Lab scientists have developed Digital Twin for Chemical Science (DTCS), an AI-powered platform that could compress discovery timelines from months to minutes, enabling researchers to observe ...