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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Press Releases

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Published on June 11, 2018 - 19:10 GMT

Experiments at Berkeley Lab Help Trace Interstellar Dust Back to Solar System’s Formation

This energy dispersive X-ray spectrometry (EDS) map of tiny glassy grains (blue with green specks) inside a cometary-type interplanetary dust particle was produced using the FEI TitanX microscope at Berkeley Lab’s Molecular Foundry. Carbonaceous material ( …

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Published on June 11, 2018 - 19:10 GMT

From Moon Rocks to Space Dust: Berkeley Lab’s Extraterrestrial Research

Artist’s rendering of a large meteorite impact on Earth. (Credit: NASA) From moon rocks to meteorites, and from space dust to a dinosaur-destroying impact, the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has a well-storied …

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Published on June 8, 2018 - 15:02 GMT

Non-Crystal Clarity: Scientists Find Ordered Magnetic Patterns in Disordered Magnetic Material

The top row shows electron phase, the second row shows magnetic induction, and the bottom row shows schematics for the simulated phase of different magnetic domain features in multilayer material samples. The first column is for a symmetric thin-film …

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Published on June 6, 2018 - 15:59 GMT

Steve Kevan Named Next Director of Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source

Steve Kevan By Ashley White After an international search, Stephen D. “Steve” Kevan has been named the new director of the Advanced Light Source (ALS) at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). The ALS produces …

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Published on June 6, 2018 - 15:19 GMT

‘Super Window’ Could Save $10 Billion Annually in Energy Costs

About $20 billion worth of energy leaks out of windows in the United States each winter – and that’s with double-paned insulating windows installed on a majority of buildings. The Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) …

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Published on June 4, 2018 - 15:03 GMT

Q&A: Berkeley Lab Physics Researcher Discusses New Higgs Boson Result

Members of the Berkeley Lab ATLAS group who worked on the analyses related to the observation of Higgs boson production in association with top quarks (top, from left to right): Heather Gray, Haichen Wang, Jennet Dickinson, Hongtao Yang, Fabio Cerutti, and …

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Published on May 30, 2018 - 17:18 GMT

Supercomputers Provide New Window Into the Life and Death of a Neutron

In this illustration, the grid in the background represents the computational lattice that theoretical physicists used to calculate a particle property known as nucleon axial coupling. This property determines how a W boson (white wavy line) interacts with …

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Published on May 28, 2018 - 15:02 GMT

Graphene Layered with Magnetic Materials Could Drive Ultrathin Spintronics

Andreas Schmid, left, and Gong Chen are pictured here with the spin-polarized low-energy electron microscopy (SPLEEM) instrument at Berkeley Lab. The insturment was integral to measurements of ultrathin samples that included graphene and magnetic materials …

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Published on May 18, 2018 - 23:42 GMT

Dozens of Photographers Attend Berkeley Lab’s Physics Photowalk

VIDEO: A recap of the Berkeley Lab Physics Photowalk. (Credit: Marilyn Chung/Berkeley Lab) Dozens of photographers visited the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) on Wednesday, May 16 – coinciding with the …

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Published on May 18, 2018 - 18:10 GMT

Diamond ‘Spin-Off’ Tech Could Lead to Low-Cost Medical Imaging and Drug Discovery Tools

Microscopic images of diamond particles with nitrogen-vacancy defects. These samples, which exhibit a truncated octahedral shape, were used in experiments that sought new ways to tune and control an electronic property known as spin polarization. The scale …

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Published on May 16, 2018 - 17:01 GMT

Living Large: Exploration of Diverse Bacteria Signals Big Advance for Gene Function Prediction

-By Massie Santos Ballon In the air, beneath the ocean’s surface, and on land, microbes are the minute but mighty forces regulating much of the planet’s biogeochemical cycles. To better understand their roles, scientists work to identify these microbes and …

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Published on May 14, 2018 - 17:16 GMT

Planck Collaboration Wins 2018 Gruber Cosmology Prize

A visualization of the polarization of the cosmic microwave background, or CMB, as detected by ESA’s Planck satellite over the entire sky. A small fraction of the CMB is polarized, meaning it vibrates in a preferred direction. In this image, the color …

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Published on May 10, 2018 - 19:06 GMT

Tau-tally Microtubular!

Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California, Berkeley have combined cutting-edge cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) with computational molecular modeling to produce a near-atomic-resolution model of …

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Published on May 10, 2018 - 15:25 GMT

Profiling Extreme Beams: Scientists Devise New Diagnostic for Cutting-Edge and Next-Gen Particle Accelerators

In this simulation, an electron beam (blue circles) passes through a mixture of hydrogen and xenon gases that it ionizes, transforming the mixture into a plasma of protons, xenon ions, and electrons. The electron beam’s self-field expels the plasma …

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Published on May 9, 2018 - 16:49 GMT

Cyclotron Road Introduces Its Fourth Cohort Of Entrepreneurial Technology Fellows

Cyclotron Road, an entrepreneurial technology fellowship program based in Berkeley, CA, announced its fourth cohort today. Comprising 13 PhD-level scientists and engineers, these fellows will spend the next two years embedded at the U.S. Department of …

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Published on May 3, 2018 - 17:53 GMT

4 Berkeley Lab-affiliated Scientists Elected as National Academy of Sciences Members

Four scientists affiliated with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) are among the group of 84 new members elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS); all three are also professors at UC Berkeley. Also …

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Published on May 2, 2018 - 13:02 GMT

Software System Award Honors Project Jupyter Team

Fernando Pérez The Project Jupyter team has been honored with an Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Software System Award for developing a tool that has had a lasting influence on computing. Project Jupyter evolved from IPython, an effort pioneered …

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Published on April 30, 2018 - 20:24 GMT

Early Career Spotlight: Zach Marshall Searches for Supersymmetry

Zach Marshall (Credit: Marilyn Chung/Berkeley Lab) Just five years after joining Berkeley Lab as a Physics Division fellow, Zach Marshall is leading an international team of researchers in search of supersymmetry — the theory that every known particle has …

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Published on April 24, 2018 - 20:13 GMT

Researcher Creates ‘Nancy Nano’ as a Cartoon Ambassador for Nanoscience Education

“Nancy Nano” creator Tracy Mattox. (Courtesy: Tracy Mattox) Tracy Mattox, a researcher in the Molecular Foundry’s Inorganic Nanostructures Facility at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), is an expert in …

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Published on April 23, 2018 - 15:08 GMT

Nanoparticle Breakthrough Could Capture Unseen Light for Solar Energy Conversion

ANIMATION: Energy transfers from a ytterbium atom (blue), which absorbs near-infrared light, to an erbium atom (red). The erbium atom then releases visible, green light. A study led by researchers at Berkeley Lab’s Molecular Foundry found a way to enhance …

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