Electric Skyrmions Charge Ahead for Next-Generation Data Storage
April 18th, 2019A team of researchers led by Berkeley Lab has observed chirality for the first time in polar skyrmions in a material with reversible electrical properties – a combination that could lead to more powerful data storage devices that continue to hold information, even after they’ve been turned off.
VIDEO: The Making of the Largest 3D Map of the Universe
April 12th, 2019In this video, Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) project participants share their insight and excitement about the project and its potential for new and unexpected discoveries.
Climate Scientists Partner with San Francisco to be Ready for Future Storms
April 10th, 2019Berkeley Lab climate experts have partnered with the City and County of San Francisco and Silvestrum Climate Associates to assess how climate change may influence the intensity of atmospheric rivers and associated precipitation, and how those changes may impact San Francisco and its infrastructure.
Dark Energy Instrument’s Lenses See the Night Sky for the First Time
April 3rd, 2019On April 1 the dome of the Mayall Telescope near Tucson, Arizona, opened to the night sky, and starlight poured through the assembly of six large lenses that were carefully packaged and aligned for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument project, which is expected to provide the most precise measurement of the expansion of the universe, and new insight into dark energy.
Berkeley Lab Team Uses Deep Learning to Help Veterans Administration Address Suicide Risks
April 3rd, 2019Researchers in Berkeley Lab’s Computational Research Division are applying deep learning and analytics to electronic health record (EHR) data to help the Veterans Administration address a host of medical and psychological challenges affecting many of the nation’s 700,000 military veterans.
Zooming in on an Inner-Cell DNA Repair Shop
April 2nd, 2019A team of scientists from Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley used an advanced electron microscope to construct the first complete atomic blueprint of a protein crucial to repairing and reading DNA.
Breakthrough Study of Cell Signaling Holds Promise for Immune Research and Beyond
April 1st, 2019For the first time ever, scientists have imaged the process by which an individual immune system molecule is switched on in response to a signal from the environment. The new work, described in a paper recently published in Science, provides an enormous leap forward in our understanding of how T cells detect viruses and may provide unique insights into autoimmune diseases and cancer immunotherapy.
