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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Press Releases

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Published on January 25, 2019 - 18:20 GMT

Berkeley Lab Researcher Wins Machine-Learning Competition With Code That Sorts Through Simulated Telescope Data

A rendering of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope’s dome. (Credit: LSST Collaboration) A new telescope will take a sequence of hi-res snapshots with the world’s largest digital camera, covering the entire visible night sky every few days – and repeating …

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Published on January 24, 2019 - 17:27 GMT

How to Escape a Black Hole: Simulations Provide New Clues to What’s Driving Powerful Plasma Jets

This visualization of a general-relativistic collisionless plasma simulation shows the density of positrons near the event horizon of a rotating black hole. Plasma instabilities produce island-like structures in the region of intense electric current. ( …

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Published on January 22, 2019 - 17:02 GMT

Berkeley Lab Pioneer in Synchrotron Techniques and Tools Receives DOE Secretary’s Award

Zahid Hussain holds his DOE Secretary’s Distinguished Service Award certificate. (Credit: Berkeley Lab) Zahid Hussain, a longtime scientist at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), has always been more focused on …

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Published on January 18, 2019 - 19:11 GMT

Scientists Team Up With Industry to Mass-Produce Detectors for Next-Gen Cosmic Experiment

Crews work at the site of the POLARBEAR-2/Simons Array experiments in Chile. There are plans to combine data at this site with data collected near the South Pole for a next-generation cosmic microwave background experiment known as CMB-S4. (Credit: …

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Published on January 9, 2019 - 16:03 GMT

Nanocrystals Get Better When They Double Up With MOFs

VIDEO: Simulation of self-assembling 2D nanocrystal/MOF superstructure. (Credit: Jeff Urban et al./Berkeley Lab) Out of the box, crystalline MOFs (metal-organic frameworks) look like ordinary salt crystals. But MOFs are anything but ordinary crystals – …

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Published on January 3, 2019 - 19:12 GMT

Revealing Hidden Spin: Unlocking New Paths Toward High-Temperature Superconductors

A research team led by Berkeley Lab’s Alessandra Lanzara (second from left) used a SARPES (spin- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy) detector to uncover a distinct pattern of electron spins within high-temperature cuprate superconductors. Co- …

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Published on December 17, 2018 - 21:48 GMT

Carbon Fuels Get Greener for Renewable Energy

For decades, scientists have searched for effective ways to remove excess carbon dioxide emissions from the air, and recycle them into products such as renewable fuels. But the process of converting carbon dioxide into useful chemicals is tedious, …

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Published on December 17, 2018 - 16:16 GMT

Massive New Dark Matter Detector Gets Its ‘Eyes’

Researchers at Brown University assemble an array of photomultiplier tubes for the LUX-ZEPLIN dark matter search experiment. The first of two photomultiplier arrays, which can detect faint flashes of light from particle interactions, arrived Friday at the …

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Published on December 12, 2018 - 09:33 GMT

Sierra Snowpack Could Drop Significantly By End of Century

A future warmer world will almost certainly feature a decline in fresh water from the Sierra Nevada mountain snowpack. Now a new study by the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) that analyzed the headwater regions of …

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Published on December 10, 2018 - 16:07 GMT

Topological Matters: Toward a New Kind of Transistor

James Collins, a researcher at Monash University in Australia, works on an experiment at Beamline 10.0.1, part of Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source. (Credit: Marilyn Chung/Berkeley Lab) Billions of tiny transistors supply the processing power in modern …

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Published on December 4, 2018 - 17:19 GMT

Topping Off a Telescope with New Tools to Explore Dark Energy

In this time-lapse video, crews at the Mayall Telescope near Tucson, Arizona, lift and install the top-end components for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, or DESI. The components, which include a stack of six lenses and other structures for …

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Published on December 3, 2018 - 16:18 GMT

Berkeley Lab Takes a Quantum Leap in Microelectronics

(Courtesy Ramamoorthy Ramesh) Ramamoorthy Ramesh, a Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) scientist in the Materials Sciences Division, leads a major Lab research initiative called “Beyond Moore’s Law,” which aims to develop next-generation …

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Published on November 28, 2018 - 22:42 GMT

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

Four college teams will square off at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) on Dec. 1 as part of DOE’s fourth collegiate CyberForce Competition. The event aims to address the cybersecurity capability gap …

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Published on November 28, 2018 - 16:29 GMT

FIONA Measures the Mass Number of 2 Superheavy Elements: Moscovium and Nihonium

FIONA is a new system at Berkeley Lab’s 88-Inch-Cyclotron that enables direct mass number measurements of superheavy elements. (Credit: Marilyn Chung/Berkeley Lab) A team led by nuclear physicists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National …

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Published on November 27, 2018 - 17:19 GMT

Potential New Way to Boost Biofuels and Bioproducts Production

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) have gained insight into the primary process by which all cells harness energy, known as cellular respiration, of E. coli bacteria and a species of yeast, each of which are common …

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Published on November 27, 2018 - 16:19 GMT

Four Berkeley Lab Scientists Named AAAS Fellows

Four scientists from the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have been named Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Election as a AAAS Fellow is an honor bestowed upon AAAS members …

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Published on November 21, 2018 - 05:10 GMT

Berkeley Lab Wins 2018 R&D 100 Award; Special Recognition Award for Cyclotron Road Startup

An online data management tool for water/energy retrofits, and a device that recycles carbon dioxide into renewable fuels have both been recognized in the 2018 R&D 100 Awards given to the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National …

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Published on November 21, 2018 - 05:10 GMT

Berkeley Lab, Oak Ridge National Lab Share 2018 ACM Gordon Bell Prize

A team of researchers led by Berkeley Lab and another led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory shared the 2018 ACM Gordon Bell Prize, announced November 15 during the SC18 conference in Dallas, Texas. (Photo courtesy of SC18) A team of computational scientists …

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Published on November 14, 2018 - 22:24 GMT

Q&A: How to Protect Yourself and Your Family From Wildfire Smoke

A view of the San Francisco Bay from Berkeley Lab on Nov. 14 (left) and three weeks ago. (Credit: Kelly J. Owen) Brett Singer and Woody Delp are internationally recognized experts in the field of indoor air quality. Singer is a Principal Investigator and …

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Published on November 14, 2018 - 18:07 GMT

Climate Simulations Project Wetter, Windier Hurricanes

New supercomputer simulations by climate scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have shown that climate change intensified the amount of rainfall in recent hurricanes such as Katrina, Irma, and Maria …

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