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Published on March 6, 2018 - 16:07 GMT

Teaching Computers to Guide Science: New Machine Learning Method Sees the Forests and the Trees

While it may be the era of supercomputers and “big data,” without smart methods to mine all that data, it’s only so much digital detritus. Now researchers at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and UC Berkeley …

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Published on March 5, 2018 - 16:25 GMT

Chemical Sleuthing Unravels Possible Path to the Formation of Life’s Building Blocks in Space

The atomic structure of pyrene molecules (upper left and upper right) are represented in an artist’s rendering of an asteroid belt, with carbon atoms shown in black and hydrogen atoms in white. A new study shows chemical steps for how pyrene, a type of …

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Published on March 1, 2018 - 19:13 GMT

Assessing the Impact of Hurricanes on Puerto Rico’s Forests

This map of Puerto Rico shows highest forest damage and tree mortality impact areas in with darker tones of red indicating more intense forest disturbance as tree mortality and crown damage. Grey areas represent non-forested areas or areas with cloud cover …

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Published on March 1, 2018 - 14:01 GMT

Can Strongly Lensed Type Ia Supernovae Resolve One of Cosmology’s Biggest Controversies?

This composite of two astrophysics simulations shows a Type Ia supernova (purple disc) expanding over different microlensing magnification patterns (colored fields). Because individual stars in the lensing galaxy can significantly change the brightness of …

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Published on February 28, 2018 - 10:12 GMT

Scientists Confirm Century-Old Speculation on the Chemistry of a High-Performance Battery

An array of solar panels and windmills. (Credit: PxHere) Scientists have discovered a novel chemical state of the element manganese. This chemical state, first proposed about 90 years ago, enables a high-performance, low-cost sodium-ion battery that could …

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Published on February 27, 2018 - 16:32 GMT

Strategies for Replacing Natural Gas to Help Decarbonize the University of California

(Credit: David Phillips/UC Office of the President) Universities across the United States have set ambitious goals to shrink their carbon footprints, including the University of California, which launched its Carbon Neutrality Initiative in 2013, aiming …

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Published on February 22, 2018 - 16:16 GMT

Imaging Individual Flexible DNA ‘Building Blocks’ in 3-D

A collection of 120 3-D images of Bennett linkages. The images were created using individual-particle electron tomography (IPET), a technique developed at Berkeley Lab. (Credit: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) –By Laurie Chong Over the past decade, …

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Published on February 21, 2018 - 16:48 GMT

Berkeley Lab ‘Minimalist Machine Learning’ Algorithms Analyze Images From Very Little Data

Slice of mouse llymphoblastoid cells. Raw data (a): corresponding manual segmentation (b) and output of an MS-D network with 100 layers (Data from A.Ekman, C. Larabell, National Center for X-ray Tomography) Mathematicians at the Department of Energy’s …

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Published on February 14, 2018 - 23:20 GMT

Berkeley Lab Report Calls for Industry Attention to Ensuring Grid Reliability

In light of changes in how electricity is being both generated and consumed, the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has written a new report analyzing challenges facing the nation’s electric grid and making …

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Published on February 12, 2018 - 16:20 GMT

Narrowing In on the W Boson Mass

Note: This article is adapted from a Brookhaven National Laboratory article. View the original article. VIDEO: The ATLAS Collaboration reports the first high-precision measurement at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) of the mass of the W boson, using data …

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Published on February 12, 2018 - 16:20 GMT

From Belgrade to Berkeley: A Postdoctoral Researcher’s Path in Particle Physics

Aleksandra Dimitrievska works on prototype chips for a planned upgrade at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider. (Credit: Marilyn Chung/Berkeley Lab) After completing her Ph.D. thesis in calculating the mass of the W boson – an elementary particle that mediates one …

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Published on February 12, 2018 - 16:00 GMT

Solving the Dark Energy Mystery: A New Assignment for a 45-Year-Old Telescope

A view inside the dome at the Mayall Telescope near Tucson, Arizona. The 2-meter corrector barrel atop the telescope will be removed and replaced with a new corrector barrel for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI). DESI’s installation will …

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Published on February 1, 2018 - 21:35 GMT

Scientists Discover ‘Chiral Phonons’ – Atomic Rotations in a 2-D Semiconductor Crystal

The atomic motion in a 2-D material, tungsten disulfide, is shown in this animation. In this phonon mode (known as longitudinal or LO), the selenium atoms (yellow) rotate clockwise while the tungsten atoms (blue) are still. (Credit: Hanyu Zhu, et al.) A …

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Published on January 31, 2018 - 22:29 GMT

Berkeley Lab Researchers Contribute to Making Blockchains Even More Robust

Sean Peisert (left) and Hein Meling (right) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). Photo by Marilyn Chung, Berkeley Lab Blockchain—a technology used for verifying and recording digital transactions—blasted into public consciousness with …

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Published on January 31, 2018 - 22:29 GMT

Gene Enhancers Are Important Despite Apparent Redundancy

Cell activity patterns of two gene enhancers (red and green cells). Cells in which both enhancers are active appear yellow. (Credit: Marco Osterwalder). -By Jennifer Huber Every cell in the body has the same DNA and genes, so a cell’s properties and …

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Published on January 30, 2018 - 16:05 GMT

Applying Machine Learning to the Universe’s Mysteries

The colored lines represent calculated particle tracks from particle collisions occurring within Brookhaven National Laboratory’s STAR detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, and an illustration of a digital brain. The yellow-red glow at center …

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Published on January 29, 2018 - 22:35 GMT

Silencing Is Golden: Scientists Image Molecules Vital for Gene Regulation

Structure of the human Polycomb Repressive Complex 2 (PRC2) bound to cofactors obtained by cryo-electron microscopy. Both cofactors mimic the histone protein tail to stabilize and stimulate the enzymatic activity of PRC2. (Credit: Vignesh Kasinath) All …

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Published on January 27, 2018 - 05:02 GMT

X-Ray Experiments Suggest High Tunability of 2-D Material

This rendering shows a “ball-and-stick” representation of the atomic structure of a 2-D single crystalline layer of tungsten disulfide (blue and yellow) on top of layers of 2-D boron nitride (silver and gold). On top of these is a representation of the …

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Published on January 24, 2018 - 15:14 GMT

New Discovery Could Improve Organic Solar Cell Performance

While there is a growing market for organic solar cells – they contain materials that are cheaper, more abundant, and more environmentally friendly than those used in typical solar panels – they also tend to be less efficient in converting sunlight to …

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Published on January 22, 2018 - 21:39 GMT

It All Starts With a ‘Spark’: Berkeley Lab Delivers Injector That Will Drive X-Ray Laser Upgrade

Joe Wallig, left, a mechanical engineering associate, and Brian Reynolds, a mechanical technician, work on the final assembly of the LCLS-II injector gun in a specially designed clean room at Berkeley Lab in August. (Credit: Marilyn Chung/Berkeley Lab) …

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