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Assessing the Impact of Hurricanes on Puerto Rico’s Forests

Can Strongly Lensed Type Ia Supernovae Resolve One of Cosmology’s Biggest Controversies?

Image - This composite of two astrophysics simulations shows a Type Ia supernova (purple disc) expanding over different microlensing magnification patterns (colored fields). Because individual stars in the lensing galaxy can significantly change the brightness of a lensed event regions of the supernova can experience varying amounts of brightening and dimming, which scientists believed would be a problem for cosmologists measuring time delays. Using detailed computer simulations at NERSC, astrophysicists showed that this would have a small effect on time-delay cosmology. (Credit: Danny Goldstein/UC Berkeley)

Scientists Confirm Century-Old Speculation on the Chemistry of a High-Performance Battery

Image - An array of solar panels and windmills. (Credit: PxHere)

Strategies for Replacing Natural Gas to Help Decarbonize the University of California

Imaging Flexible DNA ‘Building Blocks’ in 3-D

Image - A collection of 120 3-D images of Bennett linkages. The images were created using individual-particle electron tomography (IPET), a technique developed at Berkeley Lab. (Credit: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

Berkeley Lab ‘Minimalist Machine Learning’ Algorithms Analyze Images From Very Little Data

Slice of mouse llymphoblastoid cells. Raw data (a): corresponding manual segmentation (b) and output of an MS-D network with 100 layers (Data from A.Ekman, C. Larabell, National Center for X-ray Tomography)

Berkeley Lab Report Calls for Industry Attention to Ensuring Grid Reliability

Narrowing In on the W Boson Mass

Image - ATLAS Experiment event display: a W boson decays into one muon and one neutrino (Credit: ATLAS Collaboration)

From Belgrade to Berkeley: A Postdoctoral Researcher’s Path in Particle Physics

Photo - Aleksandra Dimitrievska works on prototype chips for a planned upgrade at CERN's Large Hadron Collider. (Credit: Marilyn Chung/Berkeley Lab)

Solving the Dark Energy Mystery: A New Assignment for a 45-Year-Old Telescope

Photo - A view inside the dome at the Mayall Telescope in Arizona. The telescope’s 2-meter corrector barrel will be removed and replaced with a new corrector barrel for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument. DESI’s installation will begin soon at the telescope. (Credit: P. Marenfeld and NOAO/AURA/NSF)

Scientists Discover ‘Chiral Phonons’ – Atomic Rotations in a 2-D Semiconductor Crystal

Animation - The atomic motion in a 2-D material, tungsten disulfide, is shown in this animation. In this phonon mode (known as longitudinal or LO), the selenium atoms (yellow) rotate clockwise while the tungsten atoms (blue) are still. (Credit: Hanyu Zhu, et al.)

Gene Enhancers Are Important Despite Apparent Redundancy

Cell activity patterns of two gene enhancers (red and green cells). Cells in which both enhancers are active appear yellow. (Credit: Marco Osterwalder).