W hat's thinner than a human hair but has a depth of special traits' A multitasking graphene device developed by researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab).

Last week's massive southern California earthquakes shut down Ridgecrest Regional Hospital throughout the July 4 holiday weekend while the tiny town of Ridgecrest assessed the damages.

If these walls could talk, they might tell you that cutting energy costs and pollution may be as easy as giving them a fresh coat of lighter, more reflective paint.

It took three sky surveys - conducted at telescopes in two continents, covering one-third of the visible sky, and requiring almost 1,000 observing nights - to prepare for a new project that will creat

Research related to the Microbial Community Analysis and Functional Evaluation in Soils (mCAFES) project. (Credit: Marilyn Chung/Berkeley Lab) Scientists collect samples in the Rocky Mountains as part of the Watershed Function Scientific Focus Area project.

M ost of the remaining components needed to fully assemble an underground dark matter-search experiment called LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) arrived at the project's South Dakota home during a rush of deliveries in June.

N early 10 years ago , a group of Israeli clinical researchers emailed Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) geneticist Len Pennacchio to ask for his team's help in solving the mystery of a rare inherited disease that caused extreme, and sometimes fatal, chronic diarrhea in children.

Two Berkeley Lab scientists and two faculty scientists from UC Berkeley are among more than 300 of the nation's top researchers honored. PECASE recipients, from left to right: Jim Ciston, Jackie Gates, Lin Lin, Wenjun Zhang.

Sure, computers can be used to play grandmaster-level chess , but can they make scientific discoveries' Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laborat

A  study published May 22   notes the role of X-ray experiments at Berkeley Lab's  Advanced Light Source  (ALS) in detailing the structure of a grouping of amino acids that are part of an important signaling protein.