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• Published on May 8, 2020 - 15:04 GMT

  

  Making a Material World Better, Faster Now: Q&A With Berkeley Lab Materials Project Director Kristin Persson

  Materials Project Director Kristin Persson. (Credit: Roy Kaltschmidt/Berkeley Lab) Kristin Persson is at the helm of a materials revolution. Since 2011, she has led the Materials Project, an open-access online database that virtually delivers the largest …

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• Published on May 4, 2020 - 16:08 GMT

  

  Study: Could Dark Matter Be Hiding in Existing Data?

  This image was produced by a simulation showing the evolution of dark matter in the universe. (Credit: Milennium-II Simulation) Dark matter has so far defied every type of detector designed to find it. Because of its huge gravitational footprint in space, …

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• Published on May 1, 2020 - 15:34 GMT

  

  Berkeley Lab Researchers and Collaborators Elected into National Academy of Sciences

  James Hurley, left, and F. Dean Toste. (Credit: UC Berkeley) Two Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) scientists have been elected into the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements …

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• Published on April 29, 2020 - 16:33 GMT

  

  2 Berkeley Lab Scientists, Visiting Scientist Elected as New Members of Honorary Society

  Two Berkeley Lab scientists and a visiting scientist are among the newest elected members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences – a 240-year-old honorary society that recognizes accomplished scholars, scientists and artists in academia, the …

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• Published on April 29, 2020 - 16:33 GMT

  

  Scientists Explore Links Between Genetics, Gut Microbiome, and Memory

  Nathan Johnson/PNNL This release also appears on the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory news site —By Melissae Fellet A new study is among the first to trace the molecular connections between genetics, the gut microbiome, and memory in a mouse model …

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• Published on April 29, 2020 - 15:17 GMT

  

  Royal Society Elects Berkeley Lab Physicist

    Ramamoorthy Ramesh has been elected as a foreign member of the Royal Society. Ramamoorthy Ramesh, senior faculty scientist in the Materials Sciences Division of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and …

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• Published on April 28, 2020 - 14:05 GMT

  

  Machine Learning Tool Could Provide Unexpected Scientific Insights into COVID-19

  Berkeley Lab researchers (clockwise from top left) Kristin Persson, John Dagdelen, Gerbrand Ceder, and Amalie Trewartha led development of COVIDScholar, a text-mining tool for COVID-19-related scientific literature. (Credit: Berkeley Lab) A team of …

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• Published on April 22, 2020 - 18:09 GMT

  

  Berkeley Lab to Conduct R&D to Improve the Nation’s COVID-19 Testing Capabilities

  The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) is part of a multi-laboratory working group that recently received DOE Office of Science funding under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) …

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• Published on April 16, 2020 - 15:26 GMT

  

  Seeing ‘Under the Hood’ in Batteries

  Illustration of a charging battery. (Credit: MarySan/Shutterstock.com) From next-gen smartphones to longer-range electric cars and an improved power grid, better batteries are driving tech innovation. And to push batteries beyond their present-day …

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• Published on April 15, 2020 - 15:09 GMT

  

  Staff at Berkeley Lab’s X-Ray Facility Mobilize to Support COVID-19-Related Research

  The domed Advanced Light Source (ALS) building at Berkeley Lab, and the nearby UC Berkeley campus, are visible in this drone photo taken in March 2020. The ALS has reopened to carry out COVID-19-related experiments. (Credit: Thor Swift, Marilyn Sargent/ …

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• Published on April 9, 2020 - 15:23 GMT

  

  Fine-Tuning Magnetic Spin for Faster, Smaller Memory Devices

  An exotic magnetic device developed by researchers at Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley could further miniaturize computing devices and personal electronics without loss of performance. Scale shown above is in micrometers (um); 10 um is equivalent to 10 …

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• Published on April 9, 2020 - 15:23 GMT

  

  Scientists Capture 3D Images of Nanoparticles, Atom by Atom, With Unprecedented Precision

  3D images of platinum particles between 2-3 nm in diameter shown rotating in liquid under an electron microscope. Each nanoparticle has approximately 600 atoms. White spheres indicate the position of each atom in a nanoparticle. (Courtesy of IBS) ] Since …

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• Published on April 6, 2020 - 14:29 GMT

  

  Making Biofuels Cheaper by Putting Plants to Work

  Sorghum, shown here at the Agronomy Field Headquarters in Davis, California, is a common bioenergy crop and was used in this study. (Credit: Marilyn Sargent /Berkeley Lab) Biofuels are an important part of the broader strategy to replace petroleum-based …

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• Published on April 3, 2020 - 18:50 GMT

  

  COVID-19 Related Research at Berkeley Lab

  Advanced Biofuels and Bioproducts Process Development Unit (ABPDU) Scientists around the world are joining together to study the coronavirus known as SARS-CoV-2 and to expedite the development of possible vaccines and treatments to prevent its infectious …

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• Published on April 1, 2020 - 22:25 GMT

  

  NERSC, ESnet Continue to Deliver Supercomputing, Networking Support for Nation’s Scientists during Pandemic

  Cyber Liability Engineer monitors NERSC supercomputers from the facility’s control room at Berkeley Lab. (Photo by Marilyn Chung, Berkeley Lab) While people around the world hunker down in their homes to try to slow the advance of the COVID-19 virus and …

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• Published on April 1, 2020 - 15:02 GMT

  

  Uncertain Climate Future Could Disrupt Energy Systems

  Climate variability could create a gap between total energy generation and demand – a situation that could lead to blackouts. (Credit: iStock/Tomwang112) Extreme weather events – such as severe drought, storms, and heat waves – have been forecast to become …

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• Published on March 31, 2020 - 16:28 GMT

  

  Mina Bissell Awarded International Prize for Her Contributions to Cancer Research

  Mina J. Bissell. (Credit: Marilyn Sargent/Berkeley Lab) Mina Bissell, distinguished senior scientist at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), is one of five recipients of the 2020 Canada Gairdner International …

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• Published on March 30, 2020 - 15:32 GMT

  

  Using Fiber Optics to Advance Safe and Renewable Energy

  Berkeley Lab is working to address barriers to more widespread deployment of offshore wind in California, where floating wind turbines could be a viable option.  (Credit: SarahGower/iStock) Fiber optic cables, it turns out, can be incredibly useful …

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• Published on March 26, 2020 - 18:53 GMT

  

  New Technique Looks for Dark Matter Traces in Dark Places

  In this composite image, theorized particles of decaying dark matter should produce a spherical halo of X-ray emission – represented here as colorized matter concentrated around the center of the Milky Way (in black and white) – that could be detectable …

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• Published on March 26, 2020 - 15:17 GMT

  

  Looking Up From the Mountaintop: Q&A With a Telescope Instrument’s Lead Observer

  A view of the Mayall Telescope (tallest structure) and the Kitt Peak National Observatory site near Tucson, Arizona. The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument is housed within the Mayall dome. (Credit: Marilyn Sargent/Berkeley Lab) It’s one thing to design …

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