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Category: Science Shorts

Scientists Harness Ultrafast Magnetism for Low-Power Memory

Berkeley Lab Researchers Help Map the Microbiome of Everything

How Berkeley Lab Software Helped Lead to the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics

Bringing Atomic Mapping to the Mainstream

Image - This image shows the atomic composition of an iron-platinum nanoparticle. (Credit: Colin Ophus and Florian Niekiel/Berkeley Lab)

Scientists Bring Visual ‘Magic’ to Light

New X-Ray Laser Technique Reveals Magnetic Skyrmion Fluctuations

ILLUSTRATION - This graphic depicts the orientations of electron spins in a magnetic skyrmion that is 100 nanometers in diameter and composed of about 8 million atoms. The spin of the central atom points down (yellow), while those of the surrounding atoms change slowly, eventually flipping to the “up” orientation at the circumference. (Greg Stewart/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

Berkeley Lab Intern Focuses on Using Light for Spaceflight

Image - Illustration of a light-driven solar sail (left), with Earth pictured at right. (Credit: Breakthrough Starshot/breakthroughinitiatives.org)

Internship Fuels a Student’s Budding Career in Science

Mimicking Nature with Designer Molecules

Berkeley Lab Intern Finds Her Way in Particle Physics

Photo - Katie Dunne, left and mentor Maurice Garcia-Sciveres. (Credit: Marilyn Chung/Berkeley Lab)

Sequencing of Green Alga Genome Provides Blueprint to Advance Clean Energy, Bioproducts

Scientists Sequence Genome of Snail That Spreads Parasitic Worm