Today's view of Berkeley, San Francisco, and the Golden Gate Bridge comes from Shyh Wang Hall. The building is home to NERSC, one of the world's leading supercomputing centers for open science, serving nearly 6000 researchers in the U.S. and abroad.
New graphene-based system could be key to seeing electrical signaling in the heart and brain. The ability to visually depict the strength and motion of very faint electrical fields could aid in the development of so-called lab-on-a-chip devices that use very small quantities of fluids on a microchip-like platform to diagnose #disease or aid in drug development.
Our Nuclear Data Group is conducting new experiments to address common data needs in nuclear medicine, nuclear energy and fusion R&D, security, and counterproliferation work.
A new type of power plant? By sending electrical currents into the stem, our researchers hope to image the root system and help farmers increase crop yields while also promoting the storage of carbon in soil.
ARPA-E has awarded Berkeley Lab $4.6 million for two projects to “see” into the soil and ultimately develop crops that take carbon out of the atmosphere. One technology aims to use electrical current to image the root system. The other will use neutron scattering to measure the distribution of carbon and other elements in the soil.
Warming could slow upslope migration of trees. "This means there’s a real risk that climate change may outpace tree migration—some trees may not be able to keep up with their climate.” - Lara Kueppers (scientist in Berkeley Lab’s Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division and at +UC Merced’s Sierra Nevada Research Institute)
A set of new laser systems and proposed upgrades at our BELLA Center will propel long-term plans for a more compact and affordable ultrahigh-energy particle collider.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory addresses the world’s most
urgent scientific challenges by advancing sustainable energy, protecting
human health, creating new materials, and revealing the origin and fate
of the universe.
Founded in 1931, Berkeley Lab’s scientific expertise
has been recognized with 13 Nobel prizes. The University of California
manages Berkeley Lab for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of
Science.