After a year of fastidious planning, a microscopic sample of the ultra-rare radioactive element berkelium arrived at a Berkeley Lab. With just 48 hours to experiment before it would become unusable, a ...

Quantum computers have the potential to transform science, accelerating breakthroughs in drug development, cosmology, ...

Dr. Michael S. Witherell today announced his intention to retire next spring from his position as director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) after nearly a decade of service. Dr.

In late 2023, a robotic laboratory at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ran nonstop for 17 days without a single human ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A chemistry lab at UC Berkeley says it has devised a chemical reaction that could address much of our plastic waste. (Andrew ...

After multiple attempts across the globe to create a new element, an international team of researchers led by Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, or Berkeley Lab, discovered a technique that could lead to ...

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is spearheading the development of three projects to advance scientific research in AI. The initiatives are a response to President Donald Trump’s Nov. 24 ...

New technology often calls for new materials – and with supercomputers and simulations, researchers don’t have to wade through inefficient guesswork to invent them from scratch. The Materials Project, ...

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This mosaic image of asteroid Bennu is composed of 12 images taken by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft from a range of 15 miles. During the past year, there’s been an unusual set of samples at the Department ...