Microbes are the Earth's most abundant and diverse form of life. Berkeley Lab's Microbes to Biomes initiative -- which will take advantage of research expertise at the Joint Genome Institute, Advan...
Precision Urban Agriculture refers to a new range of agronomic techniques that sharply limit the inputs that are used to grow food. By growing without soil; controlling environmental factors like ...
A Department of Energy national laboratory managed by the University of California, Berkeley Lab takes on the world's most urgent challenges, from sustainable energy and advanced computing to unde...
Berkeley Lab scientist Javier A. Ceja-Navarro discusses how his team is learning to utilize microbes that live inside the digestive tracts of insects for pest control, improved agriculture, and e...
The Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis (JCAP) is the nation's largest research program dedicated to the development of an artificial solar-fuel generation technology. Established in 2010 as...
Vince Battaglia leads a behind-the-scenes tour of Berkeley Lab's BATT, the Batteries for Advanced Transportation Technologies Program he leads, where researchers aim to improve batteries upon which...
In Rifle, Colorado, Berkeley Lab earth scientist, Kenneth Hurst Williams, highlights the role subsurface microbial communities can play in controlling the flow of contaminants in groundwater. The ...
Part of the Behind the Scenes series at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, this video highlights the team research on Smart Windows underway at the Lab. It features Delia Milliron of the Molecula...
Part of the Behind the Scenes series at Berkeley Lab, this video highlights the lab's mechanical fabrication facility and its exceptional ability to produce unique tools essential to the lab's scie...
At Berkeley Lab's Science at the Theater, scientists reveal the latest research on subjects such as biofuels, dark energy, cancer research, and carbon reduction. These events, which are sometimes s...
At Berkeley Lab, the Workforce Development & Education Office provides hands-on workshops, lab visits, outreach to the community, and mentored internships for students and faculty in order to inspi...
Cool Your School is a series of 6th-grade, classroom-based, science activities rooted in Berkeley Lab's cool-surface and cool materials research and aligned with California science content standard...
What's a Higgs boson? How is extreme weather linked to climate change? If you have questions for our scientists, here's your chance. Our scientists will answer some of your questions in these two-part exchanges. And if you have a suggestion for an "Ask Berkeley Lab" topic, send them to AskBerkeleyLab "at" lbl.gov.
It all began in the summer of 1931, when a young physics professor named Ernest O. Lawrence created his Radiation Laboratory in a modest building on the UC Berkeley campus. This forerunner of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory helped launch the modern era of multidisciplinary team science.