4+ hour, 18+ min ago   (1239+ words) Magnets are essential across scientific applications, particularly in particle physics and" in light sources. At Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), Soren Prestemon leads cutting-edge research in magnet technology as the director of the Berkeley Center for Magnet Technology and…...

4+ hour, 32+ min ago   (579+ words) In 1929, Ernest Orlando Lawrence invented the cyclotron: a compact, efficient particle accelerator that used magnets. Two years later, he founded what would become the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). Born with magnets in its DNA, the…...

2+ day, 4+ hour ago   (571+ words) In 2011, a small team at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) launched what would become the world's most-cited materials database. Today, the Materials Project serves over 650,000 users and has been cited more than 32,000 times " but its…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (267+ words) Omar Yaghi, the James and Neeltje Tretter Chair in UC Berkeley's College of Chemistry and an affiliate at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), shared the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his role in the development of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs)…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (768+ words) With the largest dataset of its kind, double the amount previously published, the CUORE collaboration has set new limits on how often neutrinoless double beta decay occurs in an atom of tellurium: on average, no more than once every 50 septillion…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (1372+ words) Scientists have developed an efficient technique to create customized high-entropy alloys " exceptionally strong, resilient metals with wide-ranging potential. This advance could speed their use in aerospace, geothermal and nuclear energy, and next-generation catalysts, bringing futuristic materials closer to real-world applications....

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (224+ words) Informed by machine learning algorithms with a super-fast learning rate, AutoBot needed to experimentally sample just 1% of the 5,000 combinations to find this "sweet spot." This process would have taken up to a year with the traditional trial-and-error approach, where researchers…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago   (543+ words) The periodic table is one of the triumphs of science. Even before certain elements had been discovered, this chart could successfully predict their masses, densities, how they would link up with other elements, and a host of other properties. "This…...

6+ mon, 2+ week ago   (317+ words) According to NAWI Executive Director Peter Fiske, the new active membrane can effectively treat wastewater that is brought to the surface during oil and gas extraction. This "produced water" is loaded with salts, particles, and hydrocarbons, all of which contribute…...

6+ mon, 3+ week ago   (318+ words) Scientists have generated the shortest pulses of high-energy X-rays to date by using a powerful laser to stimulate inner shell electrons " the electrons closest to an atomic nucleus. These extremely short pulses, clocking in at 60-100 attoseconds (quintillionths of a second),…...