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• Published on August 17, 2020 - 15:05 GMT

  

  New NSF Physics Frontier Center Will Focus on Neutron Star Modeling in ‘Gravitational Wave Era’

  This rendering shows the density of matter in the aftermath of two merged neutron stars, resulting in the formation of a black hole. (Credit: David Radice/Pennsylvania State University) A new Physics Frontier Center at UC Berkeley, supported by the …

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• Published on August 13, 2020 - 14:09 GMT

  

  Global Methane Emissions Soaring, But How Much Was Due to Wetlands?

  Infographic published with permission from the authors of “Increasing anthropogenic methane emissions arise equally from agricultural and fossil fuel sources.” (Credit: Jackson et al. 2020, Environmental Research Letters) Last month, an international team …

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• Published on August 11, 2020 - 14:18 GMT

  

  Keeping Cool Efficiently During Heat Waves

  Berkeley Lab scientist Iain Walker (Credit: Thor Swift/Berkeley Lab) Heat waves are becoming a more regular occurrence across the country. Iain Walker, Leader of the Residential Building Systems Group at Berkeley Lab, has suggestions for how to weather …

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• Published on August 10, 2020 - 16:24 GMT

  

  International Physicists Join Forces in Hunt for Sterile Neutrinos

  These four Daya Bay detectors are submerged in a pool of ultrapure water that helps to shield against naturally occurring radiation. (Photo by Roy Kaltschmidt/Berkeley Lab) Note: This press release is adapted from the original press releases issued by the …

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• Published on August 10, 2020 - 14:17 GMT

  

  Berkeley Lab Founder Ernest Lawrence to Be Honored With Memorial Highway in South Dakota

  Ernest Lawrence in Canton, South Dakota, in 1913. Lawrence attended Canton High School and received a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from the University of South Dakota in 1922 before leaving the state for postgraduate studies. (Photo courtesy of Berkeley …

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• Published on August 10, 2020 - 14:16 GMT

  

  Pioneering Work Modeling How Electric Vehicles Interact with the Electric Grid

  Science Snapshots By Kiran Julin • August 10, 2020 Berkeley Lab researcher Bin Wang (Credit: Thor Swift/Berkeley Lab) As the rate of electric vehicle (EV) adoption in the U.S. rises, the transportation sector will put additional pressure on the power grid …

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• Published on August 10, 2020 - 14:16 GMT

  

  Scientists Say: Expect More Rainfall Variability for California

  Science Snapshots By Barbra Rodriguez • August 10, 2020 A new study by researchers from the Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division at Berkeley Lab has shown that a tropical weather pattern will bring a 50% increase in winter rainfall variability to …

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• Published on August 6, 2020 - 15:36 GMT

  

  New Partnership Seeds Microbiome Research

  At the February workshop organized by the National Microbiome Data Collaborative, the MOU creating the Tri-institutional Partnership for Microbiome Research was formally signed. From L to R in foreground: Keith Yamamoto and Sam Hawgood (UCSF); Fred Myers ( …

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• Published on August 6, 2020 - 14:11 GMT

  

  A Closer Look at Water-Splitting’s Solar Fuel Potential

  Francesca Toma (right) and Johanna Eichhorn developed a special technique using an atomic force microscope at Berkeley Lab’s JCAP laboratory to capture images of thin-film bismuth vanadate at the nanoscale to understand how a material’s properties can …

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• Published on August 5, 2020 - 19:41 GMT

  

  Interpreting the Human Genome’s Instruction Manual

  An artistic representation of gene regulating elements, which allow cells with the same genetic code to differentiate into many different tissues and play many varied roles in the body. (Credit: Ella Maru Studio) A 17-year research project has generated a  …

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• Published on August 5, 2020 - 14:15 GMT

  

  Geothermal Brines Could Propel California’s Green Economy

  Thermal mud pots at Controlled Thermal Resources’ project site at the Salton Sea. (Courtesy CTR) Deep beneath the surface of the Salton Sea, a shallow lake in California’s Imperial County, sits an immense reserve of critical metals that, if unlocked, could …

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• Published on August 5, 2020 - 14:15 GMT

  

  Kristin Persson Named Director of Berkeley Lab’s Molecular Foundry

  Kristin Persson (Credit: UC Berkeley) Kristin Persson, a senior faculty scientist in the Energy Storage & Distributed Resources Division within the Energy Technologies Area at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and director of the …

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• Published on August 4, 2020 - 14:35 GMT

  

  VIDEOS: Five Ways Berkeley Lab is in the Fight Against COVID-19

  For the past several months, teams of scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have utilized our world-class research facilities to contribute to the national response to COVID-19, resulting in a …

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• Published on July 30, 2020 - 21:44 GMT

  

  Berkeley Lab Part of Team Awarded $60M for Solar Fuels Research

  Scientists at JCAP create new materials by spraying combinations of elements onto thin plates. (Image courtesy of Caltech) (Adapted from news release by Robert Perkins, Caltech) The quest for renewable fuels harvested from the sun continues, as the U.S. …

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• Published on July 29, 2020 - 23:24 GMT

  

  Another Win for the Standard Model: New Study Defies Decades-Old ‘Discrepancy’ with High-Precision Measurement

  Researchers from the ATLAS collaboration, including Berkeley Lab’s Josh McFayden, explain their new measurement of “lepton flavour universality” – a unique property of the Standard Model of particle physics. (Credit: CERN)   In particle physics, it’s the …

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• Published on July 27, 2020 - 15:47 GMT

  

  X-Rays Recount Origin of Oddball Meteorites

  X-ray experiments at Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source helped scientists to establish that the parent planetesimal of rare meteorites, like the one shown here, had a molten core, a solid crust, and a magnetic field similar in strength to the Earth’s …

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• Published on July 20, 2020 - 14:20 GMT

  

  Battery Breakthrough Gives Boost to Electric Flight and Long-Range Electric Cars

  Researchers at Berkeley Lab and Carnegie Mellon University have designed new solid electrolytes that light the path to wider electrification of transportation. (Image courtesy of Jinsoo Kim) In the pursuit of a rechargeable battery that can power electric …

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• Published on July 17, 2020 - 22:02 GMT

  

  SLAC’s Upgraded X-Ray Laser Facility Produces First Light

  This video shows how a sequence of carefully designed springs works to counteract the magnetic forces in powerful magnetic devices known as hard X-ray undulator segments. The spring force must exactly match the manetic force in these segments to keep them …

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• Published on July 17, 2020 - 14:21 GMT

  

  The Secret to Renewable Solar Fuels Is an Off-and-On Again Relationship

  A close-up of a piece of copper ore. (Credit: Coldmoon Photoproject/Shutterstock) They say it’s better to have had something special and lost it than to have never had it at all. Who would have thought that sentiment holds true for metal oxide catalysts? …

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• Published on July 15, 2020 - 17:22 GMT

  

  Natalie Roe Named Berkeley Lab’s Associate Director for Physical Sciences 

  Natalie Roe Natalie Roe, who joined Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) as a postdoctoral fellow in 1989 and has served as Physics Division director since 2012, has been named the Lab’s Associate Laboratory Director (ALD) for the Physical …

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