2+ hour, 24+ min ago  (689+ words) Cracking the Code: Using AI to Solve Difficult-to-Map Proteins'Berkeley Lab News Center (.gov) Cracking the Code: Using AI to Solve Difficult-to-Map Proteins - A new computer program developed at Berkeley Lab offers a faster and more accurate way to determine a…...

6+ day, 2+ hour ago  (167+ words) The National Academy of Engineering has named two scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) to this year's class of 130 new members and 28 international members. Both of the 2026 members hold joint affiliations with UC Berkeley....

1+ week, 2+ hour ago  (523+ words) Scientists at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have developed a new way to determine atomic structures from nanocrystals previously considered unusable, a breakthrough that could transform how researchers study materials too small or imperfect for…...

3+ week, 3+ hour ago  (581+ words) Crumlin and Qian are co-lead authors of a study and research briefing on DTCS published in the journal Nature Computational Science." Chemistry is entering a new digital era, from automated synthesis labs to voice-activated quantum calculations, Qian explained. And yet…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1083+ words) Developing the lithium-ion battery took decades of research. A new multi-institutional project led by the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) aims to cut that timeline dramatically, using AI and supercomputers to speed the discovery of materials…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (893+ words) These are two powerful complementary strategies. One is data-driven optimization; the other is discovery. Together, they give us a way to move much faster than traditional trial-and-error." " Thomas Eng Their shared target is isoprenol " a clear, volatile alcohol that can…...

1+ mon, 3+ week 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…...

1+ mon, 3+ week 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…...

1+ mon, 4+ week 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…...

2+ mon, 4+ 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)…...