A Path to Better MTV-MOFs
Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley researchers develop method for predicting adsorption in carbon dioxide-scrubbing materials.
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First Hundred Thousand Years of Our Universe
A new analysis of cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation data by researchers with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has taken the furthest look back through time yet – 100 years to 300,000 years after the Big Bang – and provided tantalizing new hints of clues as to what might have happened.
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3D IR Images Now in Full Color
Berkeley Lab and University of Wisconsin Researchers Unveil FTIR spectro-microtomography.
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ORNL Research Reveals New Challenges for Mercury Cleanup
More forms of mercury can be converted to deadly methylmercury than previously thought, according to a study published Sunday in Nature Geoscience. The discovery provides scientists with another piece of the mercury puzzle, bringing them one step closer to understanding the challenges associated with mercury cleanup.
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A Crystal of a Different Color
Chemists have unexpectedly made two differently colored crystals - one orange, the other blue - from one chemical in the same flask while studying a special kind of molecular connection called an agostic bond.
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Ames National Laboratory Leads with New Cutting Edge NMR Technology
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Ames National Laboratory has announced that it will acquire a Dynamic Nuclear Polarization-NMR spectrometer, a giant step forward in the laboratory’s world-class solid state NMR capabilities.
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Argonne Now is New
Take a look at the summer issue of the magazine for features on everything from shimmering shingles to cosmological simulations to the story of smart smartphones.
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Scientists Look to Next Decades in U.S. Particle Physics
From the output of an ongoing meeting, U.S. particle physicists – including experts from the Department of Energy’s Office of Science – will chart a path to answering some of science’s most intriguing questions.
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Winners of the Ten-Hundred and One Word Challenge Contest
The Ten Hundred and One Word Challenge invited the 46 Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRCs) to represent their science in images, cartoons, photos, words and original paintings, but any descriptions or words could only use the 1000 most commonly used words in the English language, with the addition of one word important to each of the EFRCs and the mission of DOE: energy.
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Discovery of Rare Decay Narrows Space for New Physics
After a quarter of a century of searching, physicists have discovered a rare particle decay that gives them an indirect way to test models of new physics.
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Massive Muon Ring Moves Up the Mighty Mississippi
Fifty-foot-wide electromagnet is on a 3,200 mile journey to its new home at Fermilab.
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Successful Test of New U.S. Magnet Puts Large Hadron Collider on Track for Major Upgrade
U.S. Department of Energy national laboratories – including Berkeley Lab - collaborate to build the new magnets CERN needs to increase LHC luminosity by an order of magnitude.
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