Labs

Enlightening predictions

Computer simulations of hurricane lightning could be the key to predicting and avoiding the storms' real-world punch. Read More

June, 2012

Inside the skull

Modeling the elements of blood flow in the brain could help neurosurgeons to predict when and where an aneurysm might… Read More

February, 2012

Power boost

Berkeley scientists have combined computational modeling and advanced materials synthesis to devise a low-cost anode that bolsters the feasibility of… Read More

January, 2012

Helping hydrogen along

Researchers have pursued clean hydrogen-based fuels for years. A Berkeley Lab team hopes to spur that quest with help from… Read More

October, 2011

A long view of Gulf oil spill

While others predicted when oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico might reach beaches, ocean modelers… Read More

April, 2011

Pounding out atomic nuclei

Thousands of tiny systems called atomic nuclei – specific combinations of protons and neutrons – prove extremely difficult to study… Read More

March, 2011

Laptop supercomputing

A small team led by Sandia National Laboratories is attempting to virtually put the world's most powerful supercomputers on a… Read More

January, 2011

Seeing the invisible

Armed with computing power from Oak Ridge National Laboratory, researchers are detailing the nature of dark matter surrounding a galaxy… Read More

October, 2010

Dark matter predictions put to test

Collisions in dark matter “clumps” should produce gamma rays, but a satellite looking for them has come up empty so… Read More

October, 2010

Parsing particle experiments

A detector suggested dark matter collisions, but no other test has seen similar signs. Read More

October, 2010