Dr. Michael S. Witherell today announced his intention to retire next spring from his position as director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) after nearly a decade of service. Dr.

After multiple attempts across the globe to create a new element, an international team of researchers led by Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, or Berkeley Lab, discovered a technique that could lead to ...

UC Berkeley researchers are using a technique called dowel-laminated timber or DLT to salvage wood from forest fires to ...

New technology often calls for new materials – and with supercomputers and simulations, researchers don’t have to wade through inefficient guesswork to invent them from scratch. The Materials Project, ...

After a year of fastidious planning, a microscopic sample of the ultra-rare radioactive element berkelium arrived at a Berkeley Lab. With just 48 hours to experiment before it would become unusable, a ...

This mosaic image of asteroid Bennu is composed of 12 images taken by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft from a range of 15 miles. During the past year, there’s been an unusual set of samples at the Department ...

Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) are partnering with electric utilities across the country to create more accurate cost estimates for both short- and long-term power ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A chemistry lab at UC Berkeley says it has devised a chemical reaction that could address much of our plastic waste. (Andrew ...

A new Utility-Scale Solar report released by researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, or Berkeley Lab, this month found that the United States installed a record amount of solar. Berkeley ...