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Published on October 27, 2020 - 17:16 GMT

LaserNetUS High-Power Laser Consortium, Including Berkeley Lab, Receives $18M From the U.S. DOE

Berkeley Lab’s BELLA Center houses the BELLA petawatt laser, shown here, and a 100-terawatt-class laser. (Credit: Roy Kaltschmidt/Berkeley Lab) Note: This release was adapted from an original release prepared by the U.S. Department of Energy. View the …

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Published on October 27, 2020 - 14:14 GMT

X-Rays Reveal Architectural Clues to the Crush-Resistance of Diabolical Ironclad Beetles

This 3D rendering, created from computed tomography scans of the midsection region of the diabolical ironclad beetle, was produced with X-rays at Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source. This region, known as the medial suture, is where the two halves of the …

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Published on October 27, 2020 - 13:08 GMT

A Major Milestone for an Underground Dark Matter Search Experiment

LZ’s central detector, pictured here during assembly, is located inside a large water tank on the 4850 Level of Sanford Lab. LZ will search for theorized dark matter particles known as WIMPs. (Credit: Nick Hubbard/Sanford Lab) Crews working on the largest …

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Published on October 26, 2020 - 13:26 GMT

VIDEO: Dark Matter Day Q&A with LUX-ZEPLIN Spokesperson Kevin Lesko

Kevin Lesko, a spokesperson for the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) dark matter search experiment, discusses dark matter and LZ during a recent visit to Sanford Lab. (Credit: Video production by Marilyn Sargent/Berkeley Lab; Q&A video footage filmed by Matt Kapust/ …

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Published on October 20, 2020 - 18:52 GMT

Berkeley Lab Building Efficiency Campaign Drives $95M in Annual Energy Savings

By Natalie Pawelski One hundred and four U.S. companies, schools, governments, and institutions are taking their building energy savings to a new level with the Department of Energy’s Smart Energy Analytics Campaign, a four-year initiative funded through …

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Published on October 20, 2020 - 14:34 GMT

Chasing Their Tails but Getting Somewhere: Reimagining the Shape of Noise Leads to Improved Molecular Models

Univ. of Tennessee undergrad Elliot Perryman (on right) worked with Biosciences staff scientist Peter Zwart during his fall 2019 Berkeley Lab Undergraduate Research (BLUR) internship. (Credit: Thor Swift/Berkeley Lab) Tenacity comes naturally to a guy who …

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Published on October 15, 2020 - 16:02 GMT

Berkeley Lab Names Noël Bakhtian to Lead New Energy Storage Center

Noël Bakhtian will be the director of Berkeley Lab’s new Energy Storage Center. (Credit: Idaho National Laboratory) The Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has appointed Noël Bakhtian, previously a senior policy …

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Published on October 15, 2020 - 14:05 GMT

Berkeley Lab Scientists Contribute to New Exploration of Higgs Boson Interactions

A display of a candidate Higgs boson event at CERN’s ATLAS experiment in which a Higgs boson decays into two muons. The muons appear as red tracks in this rendering. (Credit: ATLAS collaboration) Since the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012 based on data …

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Published on October 14, 2020 - 16:43 GMT

Focusing in on Aquatic Microbes: Berkeley Lab Scientists Receive Grant for New Microscopy Approach

A microscopy image of diatoms (single-celled algae) and other aquatic microorganisms. (Credit: Kichigin/Shutterstock) The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation is supporting the development of a unique microscopy concept pioneered by researchers at Lawrence …

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Published on October 9, 2020 - 14:03 GMT

What’s Nanotechnology? Kristin Persson Explains at 4 Different Levels

Feature Story By Clarissa Bhargava • October 9, 2020 VIDEO: Molecular Foundry Director Kristin Persson celebrates National Nanotechnology Day with students. (Credit: Marilyn Chung/Berkeley Lab) Happy National Nanotechnology Day! Nanotechnology is any …

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Published on October 8, 2020 - 18:36 GMT

Coming Down the Pike: Long-Haul Trucks Powered by Hydrogen Fuel Cells

Berkeley Lab scientist Adam Weber (left) and postdoc Jessica Luo look at experimental data for membrane conductivity in a fuel cell fabrication lab. (Credit: Marilyn Chung/Berkeley Lab) Hydrogen fuel cells are on the rise: Germany has rolled out hydrogen- …

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Published on October 8, 2020 - 15:28 GMT

New Algorithm Sharpens Focus of World’s Most Powerful Microscopes

A composite image of the enzyme lactase showing how cryo-EM’s resolution has improved dramatically in recent years. Older images to the left, more recent to the right. (Credit: Veronica Falconieri/National Cancer Institute) We’ve all seen that moment in a …

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Published on October 8, 2020 - 14:17 GMT

An Electrical Trigger Fires Single, Identical Photons

Illustration of a gold-covered probe tip injecting electrons into a carefully located imperfection in an atomically thin material. The energy from each electron causes the highly localized emission of a single photon, which may then be guided to a detector …

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Published on October 7, 2020 - 15:55 GMT

Study Finds ‘Missing Link’ in the Evolutionary History of Carbon-Fixing Protein Rubisco

A ribbon diagram (L) and molecular surface representation (R) of carbon-fixing form I’ rubisco, showing eight molecular subunits without the small subunits. An x-ray diffraction pattern of the enzyme, also generated by the research team, is in the …

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Published on October 7, 2020 - 11:58 GMT

Jennifer Doudna Wins 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Jennifer Doudna (Credit: UC Berkeley) Biochemist Jennifer Doudna, a professor at UC Berkeley and faculty scientist at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), is co-winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in chemistry for “ …

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Published on October 5, 2020 - 16:20 GMT

It’s All Connected: Your Genes, Your Environment, and Your Health

(Credit: sunka_art/Shutterstock) Human health is highly dependent on genetics, yet it is also known to be affected by factors in an individual’s environment – and these days that environment is quite stressful. As we shelter in place amid the coronavirus …

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Published on October 2, 2020 - 14:16 GMT

Berkeley Lab Technologies Honored With 7 R&D 100 Awards

Innovative technologies from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) to achieve higher energy efficiency in buildings, make lithium batteries safer and higher performing, and secure quantum communications were some of the inventions honored …

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Published on September 30, 2020 - 15:23 GMT

Providing New Technologies for Vaccine Development

Science Snapshots By Lida Gifford • September 30, 2020 Credit: Design_Cells/Shutterstock Vaccines, which help the body recognize infectious microorganisms and stage a stronger and faster response, are made up of proteins that are specific to each type of …

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Published on September 30, 2020 - 15:22 GMT

Transforming Waste into Bio-Based Chemicals

Science Snapshots By Emily Scott • September 30, 2020 Researchers at Berkeley Lab have transformed lignin, a waste product of the paper industry, into a precursor for a useful chemical with a wide range of potential applications. Lignin is a complex …

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Published on September 30, 2020 - 15:22 GMT

Synthetic Pathways Turn Plants into Biofactories for New Molecules

Science Snapshots By Emily Scott • September 30, 2020 Plants can produce a wide range of molecules, many of which help them fight off harmful pests and pathogens. Biologists have harnessed this ability to produce many molecules important for human health — …

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