Quaise Energy’s Oregon project aims to become the world’s first commercial superhot geothermal plant, with its next three-well test.

A new report from Google, Google DeepMind and M.I.T. finds that researchers are using AI—a lot. It’s just not helping as much in the lab

A newly defined type of heatwave is reshaping spring across the western U.S., with major consequences for snowpack, floods, and water supplies.

A single unexplained particle interaction has Bay Area scientists investigating a tantalizing possibility.

Companies like AT&T are increasingly using cheap, freely available artificial intelligence models over expensive ones from Anthropic and OpenAI.

A newly defined type of heatwave is reshaping spring across the western U.S., with major consequences for snowpack, floods, and water supplies.

Researchers with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have made a breakthrough in the field of treatments targeting Huntington’s disease, a fatal neurodegenerative disease with no known cure.

Scientists developed a new method to better identify and understand the particular heat waves that cause abrupt snowmelt.

Scientists in California say they may have found a cleaner way to make one of modern life's most important materials: graphite.

Spain’s IMDEA Materials Institute has worked with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to detect and identify differences in different 3D printers. This could be important in eliminating run-to-run d...

Robots and AI are running experiments around the clock, from battery chemistry to cancer therapies. But can they be trusted to get it right?

NVIDIA launches Ising AI models to improve quantum calibration and error correction, boosting speed and accuracy.

Latest data must still be analyzed but could help determine if dark energy is constant or varies over time.

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) has finished the most detailed survey of the universe to date, and the resulting map will help researchers understand an apparent weakening of dark ener...

DOE’s national labs’ huge facilities, data flows, and computing resources are a natural fit for the Genesis Mission

Indian experts explored US advancements in battery technologies through the International Visitor Leadership Program, enhancing economic growth and partnerships.

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is leading FORUM-AI, an agentic AI materials discovery platform designed to automate research workflows.

The search for element 120 begins at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

From structure confirmation to methodology improvements, making complex natural products has driven innovation in organic synthesis for decades. Nina Notman looks at its current state, with threats fr...

Drillers’ injection of wastewater is creating mayhem across the Permian Basin, raising concern about the future of fossil-fuel production there.

Scientists hunted dark matter and solar neutrinos with one of the largest experiments yet. While the neutrinos likely appeared, dark matter results couldn't be confirmed.

The Genesis Mission is mobilizing Bay Area labs to accelerate AI research and chip development to blunt China’s rise in the sector.

Researchers used 7,000+ NVIDIA GPUs on Perlmutter to create the most detailed simulation of a quantum microchip to date.

Advance underscores the importance of materials science for quantum computing

Despite some recent eye-catching deals, the financing environment is still sluggish

Beyond Biotech podcast - Héctor García Martín on why biology is hard to engineer

Huge AI infrastructure deals assume that algorithms will keep improving with scale. They may not.

Critics slammed attempts by Google, Microsoft and Meta to speed up materials discovery. But behind the hype, there is progress.

Bert de Jong, Director of the Quantum Systems Accelerator (QSA) at Berkeley Lab, is interviewed by Yuval Boger. Bert describes how the center develops superconducting, trapped-ion, and neutral-atom te...

In this episode, Sebastian Hassinger sits down with Bert de Jong, a leading computational chemist and Director of the Quantum Systems Accelerator at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. They expl...

With its incredible sensitivity, it promises to decode the “fingerprints” of atomic nuclei and reveal their secrets.

A widely used method to remove dissolved salts and other contaminants from water is reverse osmosis (RO), which uses ultra-thin membranes that enable water under pressure to pass through the membrane ...

Companies are experimenting with deep-sea tech to produce cheaper fresh water

Clean energy from nuclear fusion may soon be commercial. But leaders around the world have done little to prepare.

The Open Molecules 2025 project required 6 billion compute hours in Meta data centers, and could make complex chemistry calculations 10,000 times faster.

Inside the amazing, make-anything fabrication shops at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab.

Oil companies wrestling with huge amounts of wastewater have bold plans to turn the nuisance into a valuable product.

After years of frustration, researchers learn how to sharpen molecular images with liquid helium

ALS-United is an opportunity to meet the people collaborating at the Advanced Light Source and the ALS Upgrade Project. Hear firsthand how team science enables the cutting-edge research of today and b...

The US power grid is highly susceptible to cyberattacks, EMP, natural disasters, and physical threats, all of which could have disastrous results.