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Published on November 25, 2019 - 16:13 GMT

Berkeley Lab Names Robert Kostecki Director of the Energy Storage and Distributed Resources Division

News Release By Kiran Julin • November 25, 2019 Following an international search, Robert Kostecki has been appointed director of the Energy Storage and Distributed Resources (ESDR) Division in the Energy Technologies Area (ETA) at the Department of Energy …

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Published on November 25, 2019 - 16:13 GMT

A Winning Pitch for 3D Radiation-Mapping Tech: Q&A With Berkeley Lab’s Erika Suzuki

Erika Suzuki Erika Suzuki of the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), tied for first place in a September competition that featured technology pitches to an audience that included tech-transfer experts and investors …

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Published on November 20, 2019 - 16:10 GMT

The Beauty of Imperfections: Linking Atomic Defects to 2D Materials’ Electronic Properties

Scanning tunneling microscopy image of an oxygen substituting sulfur (left) and sulfur vacancy (right) in tungsten disulfide. (Credit: Berkeley Lab) Like any material, atomically thin, 2D semiconductors known as TMDs or transition metal dichalcogenides are …

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Published on November 19, 2019 - 01:51 GMT

Yelick Recognized for Outstanding Leadership in HPC

Katherine Yelick has been honored by HPCwire as their Editor’s Choice for Outstanding Leadership in high-performance computing (HPC). (Photo courtesy of Berkeley Lab Computing Sciences) Katherine Yelick, the associate laboratory director for Computing …

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Published on November 13, 2019 - 15:20 GMT

Climate Change Expected to Shift Location of East Asian Monsoons

Berkeley Lab climate scientists studied how the Hadley cell, a tropical air flow closely linked to monsoons, will change as the climate warms. (Credit: iStockphoto) More than a billion people in Asia depend on seasonal monsoons for their water needs. The …

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Published on November 12, 2019 - 16:25 GMT

Scientists Explore Egyptian Mummy Bones With X-Rays and Infrared Light to Gain New Insight on Ancient Life

Two researchers from Cairo University in Egypt brought 32 bone samples and two soil samples to study using X-ray and infrared light-based techniques at Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source (ALS). This video shows the Cairo University and ALS scientists at …

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Published on November 8, 2019 - 17:47 GMT

Five College Teams to Converge at Berkeley Lab for DOE CyberForce Competition

Cyberforce competitors and support staff from the 2018 event at Berkeley Lab. (credit: Paul Mueller) Five teams of college students will square off at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) on Nov. 16 as …

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Published on November 8, 2019 - 16:15 GMT

Machine Learning Enhances Light-Beam Performance at the Advanced Light Source

This image shows the profile of an electron beam at Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source synchrotron, represented as pixels measured by a charged coupled device (CCD) sensor. When stabilized by a machine-learning algorithm, the beam has a horizontal size …

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Published on November 7, 2019 - 16:14 GMT

Go With the Flow: Scientists Design Better Batteries for a Renewable Energy Grid

Staff Scientist Brett Helms (right) and Miranda Baran (graduate student researcher) of Berkeley Lab’s Molecular Foundry have developed AquaPIM, an affordable alternative to state-of-the-art battery membranes for flow batteries. (Credit: Marilyn Sargent/ …

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Published on November 6, 2019 - 17:22 GMT

A Game-Changing Test for Prion, Alzheimer’s, and Parkinson’s Diseases is on the Horizon

Ronald Zuckermann (left) and Michael Connolly hold a model of a protein in a beta sheet arrangement. Aggregates of proteins misfolded into this shape are the disease-causing agents in numerous fatal neurodegenerative diseases. The team’s peptoid-coated …

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Published on November 6, 2019 - 15:18 GMT

Distributed Solar Prices Fall Annually by 5% to 7%

The latest edition of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s (Berkeley Lab’s) annual Tracking the Sun report finds that prices for distributed solar power systems continued to fall in 2018, that industry practices continued to evolve, and that systems are …

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Published on November 5, 2019 - 17:16 GMT

Are Students Getting Enough Air?

This news release is adapted from a release by UC Davis. A new study by Berkeley Lab and UC Davis finds 85% of California classrooms did not have sufficient ventilation. (Credit: iStock) Roughly 85% of recently installed HVAC systems in K-12 classrooms …

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Published on November 5, 2019 - 16:23 GMT

Going Cold: The Future of Electron Microscopy

By Jessica Scully Researchers use electron microscopy to produce high-resolution images at the atomic scale of everything from composite nanomaterials to single proteins. The technology provides invaluable information on the texture, chemistry, and …

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Published on November 5, 2019 - 16:23 GMT

World-Leading Microscopes Take Candid Snapshots of Atoms in Their ‘Neighborhoods’

(Top figure) Selected electron beam diffraction patterns that were used to form the molecular structure shown at the bottom. (Bottom figure) 4D-STEM map traces the molecular structure of a small-molecule thin film. (Credit: Colin Ophus/Berkeley Lab) We can …

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Published on November 4, 2019 - 17:31 GMT

Machine Learning Algorithms Help Predict Traffic Headaches

Berkeley Lab researcher Sherry Li (Credit: Roy Kaltschmidt/Berkeley Lab) Urban traffic roughly follows a periodic pattern associated with the typical “9 to 5” work schedule. However, when an accident happens, traffic patterns are disrupted. Designing …

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Published on November 1, 2019 - 15:21 GMT

New MOF Can Take On Toxic Sulfur Dioxide Gas

Illustration of sulfur dioxide captured within the MFM-170 material, as revealed by experiments at Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source. (Credit: Gemma Smith/Manchester University) An international team has developed a robust material that can selectively …

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Published on November 1, 2019 - 15:21 GMT

Perfectly Raw or Cooked to Perfection? How Food Preparation Affects the Gut Microbiome

(Credit: Shutterstock/sarsmis) The gut microbiome undergoes rapid and dramatic changes in species composition and gene expression when the host switches between eating cooked or raw vegetables, according to a team of scientists led by UC San Francisco and …

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Published on November 1, 2019 - 15:21 GMT

Gaming Protein Structures: X-Ray Studies Confirm Power of Crowdsourcing

Comparison of high-resolution x-ray crystallography results (gray) with Foldit player-designed protein models (rainbow). Cross sections show detailed comparisons of the core sidechains. (Credit: Foldit, Advanced Light Source) The unique ways in which …

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Published on October 31, 2019 - 15:30 GMT

Dark Matter Day Q&A with Berkeley Lab Physicist Quentin Riffard

Quentin Riffard works on wiring for the Xenon Breakdown Apparatus (XeBrA), a detector that is designed to study how high voltages affect noble liquids relevant to dark matter searches. (Credit: XeBrA Collaboration) Quentin Riffard, a project scientist for …

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Published on October 30, 2019 - 20:10 GMT

Berkeley Lab Innovations Recognized With 3 R&D 100 Awards

Cutting-edge technologies from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) to detect radiation, make buildings more energy efficient, and accelerate neuroscience research were honored with R&D 100 Awards by R&D World magazine. Also …

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