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.

A research team recently discovered the first organometallic molecule — coined “berkelocene” — containing the heavy element berkelium at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, or Berkeley Lab. An ...

In late 2023, a robotic laboratory at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ran nonstop for 17 days without a single human ...

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 ...

BERKELEY (KRON) — Investigators are unsure how a human skull ended up in a ditch near the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory last week. Berkeley Lab staff found the skull around 1:30 p.m. on April ...

Networked quantum computers have the potential to solve complex problems in human health, drug discovery, and artificial intelligence millions of times faster than some of the world's fastest ...

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 ...

Progress used to be made by leaps and bounds in the never-ending race to improve the performance of the latest generation of supercomputers. But now, scientists are hitting a wall. High-performance ...

Up above UC Berkeley’s campus, ensconced in the verdant hills where colorful wild turkeys roam and families of deer graze, is the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory — a place where the streets are ...

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