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 E-Mail IMAGE: Marc Allaire, pictured in June 2020, setting up one of the Advanced Light Sources X-ray crystallography beamlines. view more  Credit: Marilyn Sargent/Berkeley Lab A team of HIV researchers, cellular biologists, and biophysicists who banded together to support COVID-19 science determined the atomic structure of a coronavirus protein thought to help the pathogen evade and dampen response from human immune cells. The structural map - which is now published in the journal PN...

"By doing so, we illustrate often-overlooked tradeoffs and synergies in adapting to climate change," she continued.  By understanding the links between these two challenges, future impact on climate change could be minimized.  Co-author of the paper and Berkeley Lab scientist Andrew Jones said "If we focus on adapting the water system by using big transfers of water across basins, or by using energy-intensive desalination, that’s just going to make the electricity problem much more difficul...

Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), UC Berkeley, and UC Santa Barbara have developed a science-based analytic framework to evaluate the complex connections between water and energy, and options for adaptations in response to an evolving climate.

 E-Mail IMAGE: An illustration combines two possible types of surface layers for a catalyst that performs the water-splitting reaction, the first step in making hydrogen fuel. The gray surface, top, is lanthanum... view more  Credit: CUBE3D Graphic Scientists crafting a nickel-based catalyst used in making hydrogen fuel built it one atomic layer at a time to gain full control over its chemical properties. But the finished material didnt behave as they expected: As one version of the c...

ATAP) Division has an opening for a Physicist Postdoctoral Fellow to join the team. technologies and their novel applications on laser-plasma accelerators (LPA) . The BELLA Center at LBNL’s ATAP Division seeks to develop high repetition rate, terawatt, ultrafast fiber laser technology, with the goal to drive multi-kHz, MeV-class LPAs. of laser pulses in temporal, spectral, and spatial domains, gain narrowing compensation, state-of-the-art high-power fiber amplification, nonlinear pulse c...

Rachel Slaybaugh to Lead Berkeley Lab’s Cyclotron Road Nuclear engineer and former ARPA-E program director takes the helm at the Lab’s division for entrepreneurial scientists News Release By Kiran Julin • January 7, 2021 8 Shares The Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has named Rachel Slaybaugh, associate professor of nuclear engineering at UC Berkeley, to lead Berkeley Lab’s Cyclotron Road Division. The announcement follows an international ...

Date Time Share Researchers propose a framework for evaluating impacts of climate change on California’s water and energy systems Researchers propose a framework for evaluating the impacts of climate change on California’s water and energy systems By Harrison Tasoff Santa Barbara, CA As the planet continues to warm, the twin challenges of diminishing water supply and growing energy demand will intensify. But water and energy are inextricably linked. For instance, nearly a fifth of Californ...

Unique X-Ray Microscope Reveals Dazzling 3D Cell Images The planet is comprised of continents and islands, each with unique cultures and resources. One area may be well known for growing food, another for manufacturing building materials, and yet despite their differences and distance from one another, the regions are linked by global processes. Living cells are built on a similar concept. For example, one part of the cell produces fuel that powers life, and another part makes the simple buildi...

 E-Mail As the planet continues to warm, the twin challenges of diminishing water supply and growing energy demand will intensify. But water and energy are inextricably linked. For instance, nearly a fifth of Californias energy goes toward water-related activities, while more than a tenth of the states electricity comes from hydropower. As society tries to adapt to one challenge, it needs to ensure it doesnt worsen the other. To this end, researchers from UC Santa Barbara, Lawrence Berkeley Na...

New nanomaterial supports enhanced and stabilized hydrogen production from methanol In an open-access paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), the researchers report that the catalyst can cleanly and efficiently accelerate the reaction that removes hydrogen atoms from a liquid chemical carrier such as methanol. The material is robust and made from earth-abundant metals rather than existing options made from precious metals, and could help make hydrogen a v...