Overturning decades of conventional wisdom, researchers at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have found that moderately high indoor concentrations of ...

Targeted alpha therapy (TAT) is an emerging cancer treatment that uses alpha-emitting radioisotopes to target and destroy cancer cells without damaging nearby healthy cells. The radioisotope ...

Four scientists from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have received Early Career Research Program (ECRP) awards from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). Established in 2010 to ...

Big Oil abandoned this California town 10 years ago. Now, it has a new plan to save it ...

With the rise of AI, California’s data centers require more water, energy. But by how much?

Solutions to some of the world’s biggest challenges, from computing and energy technologies to cancer research and drug discovery, rely on our ability to understand the detailed composition of matter.

Today, Open Molecules 2025, an unprecedented dataset of molecular simulations, was released to the scientific community, paving the way for development of machine learning tools that can accurately ...

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 ...

Using a complex cast of metal-studded pigments, proteins, enzymes, and co-enzymes, photosynthetic organisms can convert the energy in light into the chemical energy for life. And now, thanks to a ...

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 ...

Interest in hydrogen fuel cells as a sustainable source of clean energy is on the rise globally, and hydrogen fuel cells are widely seen as a viable, zero-emission option to power trucks, trains, ...

Adapted from an article by Robert Sanders at UC Berkeley. Nearly 100 years ago, a discovery revolutionized light microscopy. The introduction of the phase-contrast microscope, which garnered a Nobel ...