This atomic-scale movie upends a 100-year-old theory! Thanks to record-breaking 🔬 video resolution at our
@molecularfoundry
, scientists have discovered 🔎 how atomic-scale defects direct
#nanoparticle
growth. Check it out ⬇️
And we're awake now... Did you feel that? According to the
@USGS
, a 4.0
#earthquake
at a depth of 5.0 miles, centered in El Cerrito, CA was felt here in Berkeley at 3:39a PT. Remember to DROP, COVER, and HOLD ON!
#SafetyFirst
90 years ago this week, physicist Wolfgang Pauli penned a letter proposing a new particle, which became known as the
#neutrino
. It was found 26 years later, and our scientists and others have since learned a lot about this “ghostly” particle.
#neutrino90
This year’s Chemistry Laureate Jennifer A. Doudna was born in 1964 in Washington, D.C, USA.
She is a Professor at
@UCBerkeley
, USA and Investigator at
@HHMINEWS
.
#NobelPrize
Agradezco profundamente al
@BerkeleyLab
, donde tuve la oportunidad de estudiar, por el reconocimiento que me entregó. Conversamos sobre manejo de residuos, agua y energía con vistas a tener una colaboración entre esta institución, las universidades del país y la Ciudad de México.
Today we celebrate James Harris: He was a Berkeley Lab
#scientist
and the 1st
#AfricanAmerican
to play a key role in the search for new elements. He is credited with helping to discover Rutherfordium (Rf) & Dubnium (Db)! ⚗️🤓
#BlackHistoryMonth
⬇️
All year long we're celebrating the 150th anniversary of the periodic table,
#IYPT2019
.
#DYK
that almost the entire bottom row of elements, from neptunium to seaborgium, was discovered by Berkeley Lab scientists? That’s
#16elements
! Full story »
@IYPT2019
Today we welcome
@ENERGY
Secretary Jennifer Granholm (
@SecGranholm
) to Berkeley Lab. Our Director
@witherell_lbnl
greets her at the Integrative Genomics Building for talks on how our Lab is supporting the DOE mission including
#cleanenergy
and
#climate
.
The ROCK STARS from
@Livermore_Lab
and
@lasers_llnl
are NOW LIVE to tell you everything you want to know about their incredible fusion breakthrough! Tune in now ⬇️
Today we celebrate James Harris: He was a Berkeley Lab
#scientist
& the 1st
#AfricanAmerican
to play a key role in the search for new elements. He is credited w/helping to discover Rutherfordium (Rf) & Dubnium (Db)! ⚗️🤓
#BlackHistoryMonth
That moment in 1946 you learn your innovation will be made into a feature film that will go on to win Academy Awards in 2024 for⬇️
🍿Best Picture
🎬Best Directing
🕴🏼Best Actor
🎼Best Original Score
🎥Best Cinematography
🎞️Best Editing
🕴🏼Best Supporting Actor
#Oppenheimer
#Oscars
Researchers use our Materials Project to develop new materials for future tech - think better batteries or solar cells. With new
#materials
calculated by
@GoogleDeepMind
, they’ll have even more data to work with.
@Nature
#AI
#FutureTech
The latest ⬇️
BREAKING NEWS:
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2022
#NobelPrize
in Chemistry to Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless “for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry.”
That makes sixteen! Today we added our latest
#NobelPrize
recipients to the Nobel Laureates wall in Building 50. Introducing
@CarolynBertozzi
(🏅 in
#Chemistry
) and John Clauser (🏅 in
#Physics
). If onsite, stop by and take a selfie 📷 with our latest nobelists and tag us. 🙌🏽
Don't miss this downloadable
@ATLASexperiment
#ColoringBook
. It introduces kids to the field of High-Energy
#Physics
, as well as the work being carried out by the ATLAS Collaboration at
@CERN
! (...and is available in 13 languages)
🎨
Biochemist Judith Klinman is known for her work on enzyme catalysis & her leadership in the science community. She was the first female professor in the physical sciences
@UCBerkeley
& received the National Medal of Science in 2012.
#WomensHistoryMonth
New analysis, led by our Lab, for
@ENERGY
, finds Salton Sea region’s resources are expected to contain approx 3,400 kilotons of
#lithium
, enough to support over 375 million batteries for
#EV
's —more than the total number of vehicles currently on US roads.
Congratulations to retired Berkeley Lab Senior Faculty Scientist Ashok Gadgil, awarded the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, the nation’s highest honor for technological achievement. The award is bestowed by
@POTUS
on America's leading innovators.
@USPTO
@UCBerkeley
An experiment to capture unprecedented
#3D
images of the trajectories of charged particles has been demonstrated using cosmic rays as they travel through a cryostat filled with a ton of liquid argon.
@LBNLphysics
@DUNEScience
@Fermilab
👇🏽
DYK physicist Chien-Shiung Wu was the first to document evidence of entanglement? Her work inspired decades of later research, but she was not mentioned in the 2022
@NobelPrize
which honored experimental entanglement work.
#WomensHistoryMonth
#WomenInSTEM
🎉 Today we celebrate our 90th birthday!!! Known as Founder's Day, it marks the date in 1931 when our founder, Ernest O. Lawrence, received permission to open up a lab to pursue his studies of particle acceleration. 🥳 90 feels GREAT btw!!!
📷: D. Cooksey, 1936
#BerkeleyLab90
Don't miss this downloadable
@ATLASexperiment
#ColoringBook
. It introduces kids to the field of High-Energy
#Physics
, as well as the work being carried out by the ATLAS Collaboration at
@CERN
! (...and is available in 13 languages)
🎨
Researchers have used the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument to make the largest 3D map of our universe and world-leading measurements of
#DarkEnergy
, the mysterious cause of its accelerating expansion.
@desisurvey
Her work “sparked many advances regarding the role of progesterone in and it’s cellular receptor in breast biology and cancer. The world of women affected by
#BreastCancer
changed for the better because of [Goplan’s] presence in it.” -
@BCAction
Did you feel that? We sure did! Last night's
#earthquake
was less than a mile from our lab. DYK, we're working to use a vast network of unused fiber optic cable buried across the country for
#earthquake
detection? Details »
#BayArea
Quantum Information Edge, a nationwide alliance of national labs, universities, and industry launched today to advance the frontiers of quantum computing systems.
@SandiaLabs
🥚 Running out of things to watch? Our favorite Peregrine falcons, Grinnell and Annie, are nesting atop
@UCBerkeley
's Campanile on four eggs. WATCH LIVE all day and all night!
Catch all the cams here 👇🏽
@YouTube
👇🏽
"Whoa, watch that tie!" How many safety violations can you spot?
We couldn't resist this blast from the past! 📸 Our founder, Ernest O. Lawrence, is setting a perfect example of what NOT to do in the lab or around equipment!
#SafetyFirst
#ThrowbackThursday
#ScienceHistory
New footage captured by Berkeley Lab scientists reveals nanoparticle growth is directed not by difference in size, but by defects! “This is a huge milestone. We are rewriting textbook chemistry, and it’s very exciting!” -Senior Lab Scientist Haimei Zheng
"She was conscious of history, conscious of struggle, conscious of inequities. She was born with a sense of justice imprinted on her soul." – Madam
@VP
@KamalaHarris
from her 2019 memoir, The Truths We Hold.
📣 Today,
#POTUS
Joe Biden named Berkeley Lab's Darleane C. Hoffman and Gabor A. Somorjai as recipients of the Enrico Fermi Presidential Award, one of the oldest and most prestigious
#science
and
#technology
honors bestowed by the U.S. government. 🏆🧬
The
#Quantum
Systems Accelerator brings together a “dream team” of dozens of scientists who are pioneers of many of today’s quantum capabilities from 15 institutions.
#QIS
Robert
#Oppenheimer
and Ernest Lawrence at the 184-inch cyclotron, a machine so big it required a new site atop a ridge behind
@UCBerkeley
. This became the permanent home of the Rad Lab in 1946. Learn about our Founder ⬇️
#WayBackWednesday
#Oppenheimer