2017 | U.S. DOE Office of Science (SC)

Berkeley Lab Researchers ID Plant ‘Sunscreen’ Protein

Researchers are working to understand – and manipulate – plant photoprotection mechanisms, such as a process called NPQ, or nonphotochemical quenching, which helps dissipate excess light energy inside chloroplasts.

How to Map the Phases of the Hottest Substance in the Universe

Scientists are searching for the critical point of quark-gluon plasma, the substance that formed just after the Big Bang. Finding where quark-gluon plasma abruptly changes into ordinary matter can reveal new insights.

High-Performance Computing Cuts Particle Collision Data Prep Time

For the first time, scientists have used high-performance computing (HPC) to reconstruct the data collected by a nuclear physics experiment—an advance that could dramatically reduce the time it takes to make detailed data available for scientific discoveries.

How the Earth Stops High-Energy Neutrinos in Their Tracks

Efforts of Berkeley Lab scientists are key in new analysis of data from Antarctic experiment.

2017 R&D 100 Award Winners

Celebrating the R&D 100 Award Winners from Office of Science National Laboratories

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X-Rays Reveal the Biting Truth About Parrotfish Teeth

A study by scientists – including those at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) – has revealed a chain mail-like woven microstructure that gives parrotfish teeth their remarkable bite and resilience.

What Can Science Gain from Computers that Learn?

Machine learning and deep learning programs provide a helping hand to scientists analyzing images.

The Inner Secrets of Planets and Stars

Using Argonne's Mira supercomputer, researchers are developing advanced models to study magnetic field generation on Earth, Jupiter, and the Sun at an unprecedented level of detail.

2017 R&D 100 Awards

Celebrating the R&D 100 Award Finalists from Office of Science National Laboratories

Experiment Provides Deeper Look into the Nature of Neutrinos

The first glimpse of data from the full array of a deeply chilled particle detector operating beneath a mountain in Italy sets the most precise limits yet on where scientists might find a theorized process to help explain why there is more matter than antimatter in the universe.

Scientists Decode the Origin of Universe’s Heavy Elements in the Light from a Neutron Star Merger

Berkeley Lab scientists play key role in explaining a historic discovery.

International Team Reconstructs Nanoscale Virus Features from Correlations of Scattered X-rays

As part of an international research team, Jeff Donatelli, Peter Zwart and Kanupriya Pande of the Center for Advanced Mathematics for Energy Research Applications (CAMERA) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) contributed key algorithms which helped achieve a goal first proposed more than 40 years ago – using angular correlations of X-ray snapshots from non-crystalline molecules to determine the 3D structure of important biological objects