Research & Ideas

Scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have developed “multielement ink,” a semiconducting material that could make semiconductors more sustainable and affordable to manufacture.

A newly upgraded laser at the United States Department of Energy’s Stanford Linear Accelerator Laboratory, or SLAC, National Accelerator Laboratory produced its first X-rays with help from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

A Goldman School of Public Policy study found that reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, or REDD+, carbon credits, a United Nations framework to protect forests, are overcrediting companies.

Three new studies on early life malnutrition, authored by a team of UC Berkeley and UCSF researchers, were published in Nature last week. 

The U.S. Department of Energy, or DOE, awarded $3,702,880 to Siemens Energy, Inc. and its partners UC Berkeley, Constellation Energy and Battelle to accelerate the development of negative emissions technology in the form of direct air capture, or DAC.

Berkeley Distinguished Professor of Astronomy Alex Filippenko hosted a casual star-gazing session with friends in Woodside, California, on May 18. That night, he captured pictures of galactic objects and stars, one of which pictured the Pinwheel Galaxy, M101. 

Berkeley researchers are launching a multidisciplinary training program that combines data science, the criminal justice system and AI to tackle some of the long-standing issues surrounding the criminal justice system.

The UC Berkeley School of Public Health, in collaboration with the MIT Press, announced the launch of its new journal Rapid Reviews\Infectious Diseases, or RR\ID, which builds off the work of Rapid Reviews\COVID-19, or RR\C19.

A new center called the Center for High Precision Patterning Science, or CHiPPS, led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory aims to pursue fundamental research in patterning science, specifically by studying extreme ultraviolet lithography, or EUV lithography.

Campus researchers used brain recordings to decode and reconstruct Pink Floyd's song, “Another Brick in the Wall, Part 1,” leading to further interest in the phenomenon of people who can't speak being able to sing.