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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Press Releases

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Published on May 14, 2019 - 19:29 GMT

Study Concludes Glassy Menagerie of Particles in Beach Sands Near Hiroshima is Fallout Debris from A-Bomb Blast

Researchers collected and studied beach sands from locations near Hiroshima including Japan’s Miyajima Island, home to this torii gate, which at high tide is surrounded by water. The torii and associated Itsukushima Shinto Shrine, near the city of …

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Published on May 8, 2019 - 16:53 GMT

A New Filter to Better Map the Dark Universe

Just as a wine glass distorts an image showing temperature fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background in this photo illustration, large objects like galaxy clusters and galaxies can similarly distort this light to produce lensing effects. (Credit: …

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Published on May 6, 2019 - 15:09 GMT

Plastic Gets a Do-Over: Breakthrough Discovery Recycles Plastic From the Inside Out

Credit: iStock/Mukhina1 Light yet sturdy, plastic is great – until you no longer need it. Because plastics contain various additives, like dyes, fillers, or flame retardants, very few plastics can be recycled without loss in performance or aesthetics. Even …

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Published on May 1, 2019 - 15:15 GMT

The ‘Little’ Computer Cluster That Could

The PDSF computer cluster in 2003. (Credit: Berkeley lab) Decades before “big data” and “the cloud” were a part of our everyday lives and conversations, a custom computer cluster based at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ( …

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Published on April 30, 2019 - 18:51 GMT

Four Berkeley Lab Scientists Elected as National Academy of Sciences Members

New NAS members (from left to right) Roger Falcone, Pamela Ronald, Uros Seljack, and Omar Yaghi. (Credit: Berkeley Lab/UC Berkeley) Four Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) scientists have been elected into the National Academy of Sciences …

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Published on April 26, 2019 - 22:19 GMT

Unique Synthetic Antibodies Show Promise for Improved Disease and Toxin Detection

Scientists have invented a new “synthetic antibody” that could make screening for diseases easier and less expensive than current go-to methods. Writing in the journal Nano Letters, a team led by Markita Landry of Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley describes how …

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Published on April 26, 2019 - 13:40 GMT

Exploring New Ways to Control Thermal Radiation

Berkeley Lab researchers hope to find new thermal storage possibilities using nanoscience. (Credit: iStockphoto.com) Planck’s Law, which describes electromagnetic radiation from heated bodies, forms the basis of quantum theory. However, with the advent of …

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Published on April 26, 2019 - 13:30 GMT

New Statistical Technique Finds La Nina Years More Favorable for Mountain Snowpack Than El Nino Years

Berkeley Lab researchers have developed a novel analytical method for understanding why and when two extremes, such as heat and drought, happen simultaneously. The method gives a visual representation of the relationships in the form of color-coded joint …

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Published on April 25, 2019 - 21:03 GMT

Royal Society of London Elects Two Berkeley Lab Scientists

From left to right: Inez Fung, Martin Head-Gordon (Credit: Berkeley Lab) Two Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) scientists have been elected as Fellows to the Royal Society of London, the oldest scientific academic society in continuous …

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Published on April 25, 2019 - 15:13 GMT

Bridge Over Coupled Waters: Scientists 3D-Print All-Liquid ‘Lab on a Chip’

Researchers at DOE’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have 3D-printed an all-liquid device that, with the click of a button, can be repeatedly reconfigured on demand to serve a wide range of applications – from making battery materials …

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Published on April 19, 2019 - 22:18 GMT

American Academy of Arts and Sciences Elects Four Berkeley Lab Scientists

From left to right: Susan Hubbard, Kam-Biu Luk, Jeffrey Long, and Claire Tomlin. (Credit: Berkeley Lab/UC Berkeley) Four scientists from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences …

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Published on April 18, 2019 - 15:02 GMT

Electric Skyrmions Charge Ahead for Next-Generation Data Storage

VIDEO: Simulation of a single polar skyrmion. Red arrows signify that this is a left-handed skyrmion. The other arrows represent the angular distribution of the dipoles. (Credit: Xiaoxing Cheng, Pennsylvania State University; C.T. Nelson, Oak Ridge …

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Published on April 12, 2019 - 15:40 GMT

VIDEO: The Making of the Largest 3D Map of the Universe

In this video, DESI project participants share their insight and excitement about the project and its potential for new and unexpected discoveries. (Credit: Marilyn Chung/Berkeley Lab, DESI Collaboration) DESI, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, …

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Published on April 10, 2019 - 18:03 GMT

Climate Scientists Partner with San Francisco to be Ready for Future Storms

The San Francisco seawall is the foundation of over three miles of San Francisco’s waterfront from Fisherman’s Wharf to Mission Creek and is over 100 years old. The Seawall supports key utility and transportation infrastructure and provides flood …

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Published on April 3, 2019 - 22:41 GMT

Berkeley Lab Team Uses Deep Learning to Help Veterans Administration Address Suicide Risks

Credit: iStock.com/Steve Debenport Researchers in the Computational Research Division (CRD) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) are applying deep learning and analytics to electronic health record (EHR) data to help the Veterans …

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Published on April 3, 2019 - 15:37 GMT

Dark Energy Instrument’s Lenses See the Night Sky for the First Time

News Release By Glenn Roberts Jr. • April 3, 2019 DESI “first light” image of the Whirlpool Galaxy, also known as Messier 51. This image was obtained the first night of observing with the DESI Commissioning Instrument on the Mayall Telescope at the Kitt …

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Published on April 2, 2019 - 16:11 GMT

Zooming in on an Inner-Cell DNA Repair Shop

This video shows an animated structural model of TFIIH, a large protein assembly that helps repair and read our genome. Berkeley Lab scientists used an advanced cryo-electron microscope to generate the first-ever atomic map of TFIIH’s structure. (Credit: …

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Published on April 1, 2019 - 15:16 GMT

Breakthrough Study of Cell Signaling Holds Promise for Immune Research and Beyond

The atomic structure of the SOS protein, a cell messaging molecule that uses a unique timing mechanism to regulate activation of a critical immune system pathway. (Credit: Steven Alvarez/Berkeley Lab) For the first time ever, scientists have imaged the …

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Published on March 22, 2019 - 15:10 GMT

Mouse Study Yields Long-Awaited Insights into Human Stomach Cancer

Research Scientist Antoine Snijders (right) and postdoc Pin Wang analyze mouse blood samples. (Credit: Marilyn Chung/Berkeley Lab) Mice have been instrumental in the study of cancer, but like all animal models of human diseases, they have their limitations …

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Published on March 20, 2019 - 18:19 GMT

The Best Topological Conductor Yet: Spiraling Crystal Is the Key to Exotic Discovery

This animation shows how Fermi arc states form a spiraling structure in a crystal material that serves as a topological conductor. (Credit: Hasan Lab/Princeton University) The realization of so-called topological materials – which exhibit exotic, defect- …

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