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.

Scientists and industry operators like Fervo Energy are developing enhanced geothermal systems (EGS), engineered reservoirs in Earth’s subsurface, to access the constant heat deep underground, where ...

A Berkeley Lab team built a large language model-powered assistant, called TEM Agent, that can operate a transmission electron microscope from natural-language instructions. The system uses an open ...

The Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) is contributing to the development of quantum computing technologies to help solve grand challenges in energy, physics, ...

Three projects led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) are among those selected as part of a $155 million Department of Energy (DOE) investment in American industrial innovation.

Innovative water treatment and desalination technologies hold promise for building climate resilience, realizing a circular water economy, and bolstering water security. However, more research and ...

Three scientists with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) were among the nearly 400 scientists and engineers awarded by President Biden to receive the ...

The DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys combined more than 263,000 telescope exposures to make the largest 2D map of the universe in visible and near-infrared light. Astronomers can pair the Legacy Surveys ...

Scientists have measured the highest toughness ever recorded, of any material, while investigating a metallic alloy made of chromium, cobalt, and nickel (CrCoNi). Not only is the metal extremely ...

When Vern Paxson was a graduate student in Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s (Berkeley Lab) Network Research Group in the 1990s, the term “cybersecurity” was not well known. But the software now ...

Scientists have brought to light new clues on how mother of pearl, or nacre, is formed using the polarized x-ray beams and nanoscale imaging capabilities of Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source. In ...

Using a complex cast of metal-studded pigments, proteins, enzymes, and co-enzymes, photosynthetic organisms can convert the energy in light into the chemical energy for life. And now, thanks to a ...