January 2019 – July 2022
John Hartwig, head of the Catalysis and Chemical Transformations Program in the Chemical Sciences Division and professor of chemistry at UC Berkeley, has been awarded the Wolf Prize in Chemistry for the development of efficient transition-metal catalysts that have revolutionized drug manufacturing.
Using supercomputing resources at NERSC, an international team has captured the collision of two neutron stars in a 3D computer model for the first time.
Chasing clues about the infant universe in relic light known as the cosmic microwave background, or CMB, Berkeley Lab scientists are devising more elaborate and ultrasensitive detector arrays to measure the properties of this light with increasing precision.
A new research team at Berkeley Lab brings together a multidisciplinary group of experts to explore ways to make our cities more efficient. The Urban Systems group will focus on buildings and their interactions with the urban environment.
Electron spin is key to understanding how cuprate superconductors can conduct electricity without loss at high temperature.
The LDRD program is one of the principal means to seed innovative science and new research directions at the Lab.
Bioscientists at the Advanced Light Source lent their expertise to a project led by scientists at the University of Washington to design proteins in the lab that zip together like DNA. The technique could enable the design of protein nanomachines to help diagnose and treat disease.
Understanding how DNA and RNA pathogens replicate could offer an avenue for disrupting virus production.
Dual-purpose materials could one day be used to store carbon dioxide emissions and manufacture renewable fuels.