Berkeley Lab's Alan Smith drove the science of measuring radioactivity in experiments' materials and components.

Joint BioEnergy Institute researchers demonstrate that jet fuels made from plants could be cost competitive with conventional fossil fuels. With an estimated daily fuel demand of more than 5 million barrels per day, the global aviation sector is incredibly energy-intensive and almost entirely reliant on petroleum-based fuels.

A tree's growth is dependent on nutrients from the soil and water, as well as the microbes in, on, and around the roots.

Insects are critical contributors to ecosystem functioning, and like most living organisms their co-evolution with microbes has been essential to support these functions.

A new approach for studying microbial genes will provide insight into how ecosystems respond to changes in the environment and climate. The DNA belonging to the community of microbes in a water sample can give scientists clues about the ecosystem as a whole.

Mina Bissell, a distinguished scientist at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), has been selected to receive two prestigious awards for her pioneering contributions to breast cancer biology and medicine.

Berkeley Lab researchers contribute to new results from STAR experiment that show antiquarks' contribution to proton spin depends on 'flavor' Note: This press release is adapted from a release produced by Brookhaven National Laboratory.

Berkeley Lab researchers take cues from nature to form living materials with unprecedented control and versatility.

Berkeley Lab-led team combines several nanoscale techniques to gain new insights on the effects of defects in a well-studied monolayer material Nothing is perfect, or so the saying goes, and that's not always a bad thing.

A new study led by Berkeley Lab reveals how aligned layers of atomically thin semiconductors can yield an exotic new quantum material A method developed by a Berkeley Lab-led research team may one day turn ordinary semiconducting materials into quantum electronic devices.