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Berkeley Lab’s Top 10 Science Stories of 2020 It was a year dominated by COVID-19 research, along with some beetles, batteries, and a Nobel Prize December 22, 2020 T he coronavirus pandemic has taught us many valuable lessons this year, and perhaps foremost among them is the importance of science. Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have always strived to find science-based solutions for society’s most pressing issues. This year o...

 E-Mail IMAGE: An illustration of the 2D boron nitride substrate with imperfections that host tiny nickel clusters. The catalyst aids the chemical reaction that removes hydrogen from liquid chemical carriers, making it... view more  Credit: Jeff Urban/Berkeley Lab Hydrogen is a sustainable source of clean energy that avoids toxic emissions and can add value to multiple sectors in the economy including transportation, power generation, metals manufacturing, among others. Technologies ...

Dec 16, 2020 By Mark Golden Yi Cui, a preeminent researcher of nanotechnologies for better batteries and other sustainability technologies, as well as an educator and entrepreneur, will become the next director of Stanford University’s Precourt Institute for Energy. Yi Cui, Stanford materials science professor and incoming director of the Precourt Institute for Energy. (Credit: Feng Pan) Cui, professor in Stanford’s Department of Materials Science & Engineering and professor of photon sci...

Researchers develop rechargeable, custom-fitting N95 masks Jeffrey Urban/Courtesy According to a press release from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the new N95 mask model can be custom-fitted and 3D-printed. Additionally, the mask’s mesh filter, which is responsible for trapping virus particles, can be recharged, the press release states. Last Updated December 16, 2020 With personal protective equipment, or PPE, continuing to be in short supply due to the COVID-19 pandemic, researc...

 E-Mail IMAGE: Katherine Shield (from left), Dahlia An, Tyler Bailey at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory on Tuesday, November 17, 2020, in Berkeley, Calif. view more  Credit: Marilyn Sargent/Berkeley Lab A promising approach to treating cancer - called targeted alpha-particle therapy or TAT - could better harness the curative power of radiation treatments and lessen the severity of their more debilitating side effects. TAT recruits drugs containing radioactive materials called a...

 E-Mail IMAGE: A worker at the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment site is perched near a water pool where four large detectors are submerged in this August 2012 photo. view more  Credit: Roy Kaltschmidt/Berkeley Lab The Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment collaboration - which made a precise measurement of an important neutrino property eight years ago, setting the stage for a new round of experiments and discoveries about these hard-to-study particles - has finished taking data. T...

 E-Mail IMAGE: A false-color transmission electron micrograph of multiple bacteriophages attached to a bacterial cell wall view more  Credit: Wikimedia Commons Scientists are continually searching for new and improved ways to deal with bacteria, be it to eliminate disease-causing strains or to modify potentially beneficial strains. And despite the numerous clever drugs and genetic engineering tools humans have invented for these tasks, those approaches can seem clumsy when compared to...

Its called the shake alert system. it sends people notifications to waste, through a cell phone app called my shake and using the same system that she is amber alerts. it comes on the 30th anniversary of the earthquake which killed dozens in the bay area. the new system tested this week when two earthquakes jolted northern and california. emergency officials had to tweak an early version of the op after people didnt get warnings about the quakes that hit over the fourth of july weekend. richard ...

Storing the gas. here to tell us about that is jeff urban, he works as a lead scientist at the berkeley lab. he has a title i will tell you as long as my arm so well just call jeff a super smart guy. thats your new title for today. >> fair enough. >> great to have you with us. tell us about this big breakthrough. >> yeah, this really came out of a big dilemma in the hydrogen storage community, which is how do you safely and densely hold on to a large quantity of hydrogen, something that youd nee...