The human RISC-loading complex is a packet of proteins that helps determine the fate of human cells by controlling whether genetic messages – such as “turn cancerous” – are silenced or expressed. Berkeley Lab researchers now know what this critical complex looks like.

Berkeley Lab researchers, working with Silicon Valley companies, have three new energy-efficient data center technologies available for demonstration.

BOSS, the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey, is the most ambitious attempt yet to map the expansion history of the Universe using the technique known as baryon acoustic oscillation. BOSS achieved first light on September 14 with an upgraded spectrographic system on the 2.5-meter telescope at Apache Point Observatory.

Scientists have revealed the role played by the least-understood part of a first-responder molecule that rushes in to bind and repair breaks in DNA strands. Their research could lead to improved cancer treatment.

For decades nuclear scientists have searched for an Island of Stability among notoriously short-lived artificial heavy elements. Now researchers in Berkeley Lab’s Nuclear Science Division and UC Berkeley have made a step forward in the quest by confirming the production of the superheavy element 114, ten years after a group in Russia, at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, first claimed to have made it.

George Smoot of the Physics Division represented Berkeley Lab at the signing of an agreement with representatives of South Korea’s University of Incheon to explore the potential for joint scientific research in energy, biology, accelerators, cosmology, and space. The agreement calls for investigation of possible collaborations in which the University of Incheon would provide facilities and Berkeley Lab would provide research programs.

The White House announced its intention to nominate Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and University of California, Berkeley engineer and scientist Arun Majumdar to become the first director of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E).

There’s a new way to explore biology’s secrets. With a flash of light, scientists zeroed in on the type of neural cell that controls swimming in larval zebrafish. The technique could become a powerful way to learn how biological systems work.

Berkeley Lab scientist Ashok Gadgil is one of 10 recipients of this year’s Heinz Awards in recognition of humanitarian research that has improved energy efficiency, reduced health risks and enhanced the quality of life in developing countries

Berkeley Lab researchers have shown that selective placement of strain can alter the electronic phase and its spatial arrangement in correlated electron materials, a class of materials that can display properties such as colossal magnetoresistance and high-temperature superconductivity.