Experts Predict Wind Energy Costs to Drop Significantly in the Future
Technology and commercial advancements are expected to continue to drive down the cost of wind energy, according to a survey led by Lawrence Berkeley National…
Technology and commercial advancements are expected to continue to drive down the cost of wind energy, according to a survey led by Lawrence Berkeley National…
Key to Cleaner Combustion? Look to the Stars In a decade-long quest, scientists at Berkeley Lab, the University of Hawaii, and Florida International University uncover…
International collaboration, under the aegis of Berkeley Lab, aims for 3D map of the universe, unraveling of mysterious ‘dark energy.’ A five-year quest to map…
Researchers detected non-negligible interactions between technologically intriguing 2D materials and the substrates that physically support them. Atomically thin layers are of great technological interest because…
A highly efficient way to collect infrared microscopy data avoids the use of slow, grid-based raster scans. Question: What do a roundworm, a Sharpie pen,…
New Berkeley Lab study reviews progress towards a carbon-free power sector. Concerns about climate change are driving a growing number of states, utilities, and corporations…
An X-ray instrument at Berkeley Lab contributed to a battery study that used an innovative approach to machine learning to speed up the learning curve…
A new way to form self-aligned ‘color centers’ promises scalability to over 10,000 qubits for applications in quantum sensing and quantum computing. Achieving the immense…
A new environmental and technological analysis suggests that a revolutionary eco-friendly plastic is almost ready to hit the shelves. Plastics are a part of nearly…
Cosmologists have found a way to double the accuracy of measuring distances to supernova explosions – one of their tried-and-true tools for studying the mysterious…
The signatures of ancient magnetic fields in meteorites support an extended time frame for the cooling of molten protoplanetary cores. If you stumble upon an…
Team led by Berkeley Lab, UC Berkeley scientists builds a new type of quantum processor capable of information scrambling like that theorized within black holes….
A Q&A with Berkeley Lab scientist Eric Sundstrom on a technology to turn electrons to bioproducts. Many of the common items we use in our…
A Q&A with Berkeley Lab scientist Jeffrey Long on a material for capturing CO2. Human activity is now leading to the equivalent of 40 billion…
Pioneering study co-led by Berkeley Lab has significance for next-gen information technologies. A decade ago, the discovery of quasiparticles called magnetic skyrmions provided important new…
A Berkeley Lab-led team is digging into the bizarre bacteria-produced nanomachines that could fast-track microbiome science. Imagine there are arrows that are lethal when fired…
Berkeley Lab-led team of researchers finds that higher targets for wind and solar would come at a comparable cost to fossil fuel sources. India has…
Researchers make the case for shifting how we think about heating and cooling needs in buildings. Heating and cooling buildings is a large part of…