An international scientific team has discovered a neutralizing antibody, derived from the blood of a SARS survivor, that inhibits the closely related COVID-19-causing coronavirus. In a paper published this week in Nature, the scientists note that the antibody is already on an accelerated development path toward clinical trials.

A new study revealed hundreds of new strong gravitational lensing candidates based on a deep dive into data collected for a DOE-supported telescope project in Arizona called the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument. The study benefited from the winning machine-learning algorithm in an international science competition.

A team of researchers co-led by Berkeley Lab has observed unusually long-lived wavelike electrons called “plasmons” in a new class of electronically conducting material. Plasmons are important for determining the optical and electronic properties of metals for the development of new sensors and communication devices.

As society prepares to reopen indoor spaces and ease back into some sense of normalcy during the COVID-19 pandemic, a team of researchers at Berkeley Lab is launching a study of the risk of airborne transmission of viruses within buildings and how to mitigate those risks.

As the COVID-19 outbreak took hold in Italy, researchers working on a nuclear physics experiment called CUORE at an underground laboratory in central Italy scrambled to keep the ultrasensitive experiment running and launch new tools and rules for remote operations.

Berkeley Lab’s Kristin Persson shares her thoughts on what inspired her to launch the Materials Project online database, the future of materials research and machine learning, and how she found her own way into a STEM career.

In the hunt for dark matter, experiments have searched for signs of particles knocking into atomic nuclei, which produces tiny flashes of light and other signals. A new study suggests new paths for catching the signals of dark matter particles that have their energy absorbed by these nuclei.

Scientists from Pacific Northwest and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories showed that both dietary and supplementary sources of a common gut microbe or its main chemical product, lactic acid, led to better memory performance in mice.

A team of materials scientists at Berkeley Lab – scientists who normally spend their time researching things like high-performance materials for thermoelectrics or battery cathodes – have built a text-mining tool in record time to help the global scientific community synthesize the mountain of scientific literature on COVID-19 being generated every day.

Berkeley Lab is part of a multi-laboratory working group that received DOE funds to conduct R&D to help improve the nation’s COVID-19 testing capabilities. The research involves eight DOE national labs over the next six months. There are five teams; three of them are headed up by Lab scientists.