Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Author at ScienceBlog.com

A very big bacteria you can see with your naked eye

Photomultiplier tubes, designed to pick up faint light signals from particle interactions, line the inside of a detector for the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino experiment. (Credit: Roy Kaltschmidt/Berkeley Lab)

Physicists Announce First Results from Daya Bay’s Final Dataset

Using Bacteria to Accelerate CO2 Capture in Oceans

A chromosome (blue) imaged during cell replication. The chromosome is duplicated, and protein strands called spindle fibers (red) are attached to the chromosome copies to pull them apart, so that each ‘daughter cell’ gets one copy. The spindle fibers attach to the chromosomes due to the centromere. (Credit: Zeiss Microscopy/Flickr)

First ‘Telomere to Telomere’ Human Genome Reveals Secrets of the Centromere

Burning more than 1,000 square kilometers of tundra on Alaska’s North Slope, the 2007 Anaktuvuk river wildfire is one of the largest fires to occur within Arctic ecosystems. Berkeley Lab scientist Nick Bouskill led a study that used data from this disturbance event to predict ecosystem recovery as fires advance in a changing climate. (Credit: Bureau of Land Management)

Microbial Response to a Changing and Fire-Prone Arctic Ecosystem

Berkeley Lab researchers Andrew Haddad (left) and Emna Aidi are working on a new approach for direct air capture of carbon dioxide. (Credit: Thor Swift/Berkeley Lab)

Using Hundred-Year-Old Chemistry to Capture Carbon Directly From Air

Scientists Uncover Surprising New Clues to Exotic Superconductors’ Superpowers

A Laser-Powered Upgrade to Cancer Treatment

How X-Rays Can Make Better Batteries

With a Little Help, New Optical Material Assembles Itself

$An illustration of the serial femtosecond X-ray crystallography process, showing a jet of liquid solvent combined with the sample particles being blasted with the laser beam to capture diffraction data. This action is completed in just a few femtoseconds – that is quadrillionths of a second, or a few millionths of one billionth of a second. (Credit: Ella Maru Studio)$

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