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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Press Releases

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Published on December 5, 2017 - 15:21 GMT

Dark Fiber: Using Sensors Beneath Our Feet to Tell Us About Earthquakes, Water, and Other Geophysical Phenomenon

Shan Dou (from left), Jonathan Ajo-Franklin, and Nate Lindsey were on a Berkeley Lab team that used fiber optic cables for detecting earthquakes and other subsurface activity. (Credit: Marilyn Chung/Berkeley Lab) Scientists at the Department of Energy’s …

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Published on November 29, 2017 - 16:29 GMT

Watching a Quantum Material Lose Its Stripes

Stripes can be found everywhere, from zebras roaming in the wild to the latest fashion statement. In the world of microscopic physics, periodic stripe patterns can be formed by electrons within so-called quantum materials. Illustration of an ultrashort …

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Published on November 28, 2017 - 15:03 GMT

“Holy Grail” for Batteries: Solid-State Magnesium Battery a Big Step Closer

BERKELEY, CA / ARGONNE, IL – A team of Department of Energy (DOE) scientists at the Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR) has discovered the fastest magnesium-ion solid-state conductor, a major step towards making solid-state magnesium-ion …

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Published on November 22, 2017 - 18:09 GMT

A Flight Path to Physics Success

Sandra Miarecki boards a T-38 Talon aircraft during her time as a U.S. Air Force pilot. (Photo courtesy of Sandra Miarecki) In a previous career, Sandra Miarecki flew high above the Earth’s surface. During a 20-year career in the U.S. Air Force that …

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Published on November 22, 2017 - 18:09 GMT

How the Earth Stops High-Energy Neutrinos in Their Tracks

IceCube has measured for the first time the probability that neutrinos are absorbed by Earth as a function of their energy and the amount of matter that they go through. This measurement of the neutrino cross section using Earth absorption has confirmed …

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Published on November 21, 2017 - 00:59 GMT

New Catalyst Gives Artificial Photosynthesis a Big Boost

Note: This report was adapted from a University of Toronto press release. View the original release. –By Tyler Irving Researchers have created a new catalyst that brings them one step closer to artificial photosynthesis — a system that would use renewable …

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Published on November 20, 2017 - 19:24 GMT

Berkeley Lab Takes Home Four R&D 100 Awards for Cutting-Edge Technologies

Technologies that help determine how solar energy affects the grid, benchmark energy savings for low-carbon cities, understand the functions of genes in microbes under different environmental conditions, and simulate how chemical reactions occur and change …

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Published on November 20, 2017 - 16:13 GMT

Berkeley Lab Physicist, Atmospheric Chemist Named AAAS Fellows

Two scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) – Michael Barnett, a senior physicist and educator; and Ronald C. Cohen, a climate and air quality researcher – have been named as Fellows of the American …

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Published on November 20, 2017 - 15:14 GMT

Research Becomes Reality in Study of Fire Impact on Sonoma Water Resources

Berkeley Lab researchers, including Michelle Newcomer (right), are collaborating with USGS and the Sonoma County Water Agency to study how the water resources respond to extreme events such as fire. (Photos courtesy Michelle Newcomer) Scientists at the …

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Published on November 16, 2017 - 21:03 GMT

Detailed View of Immune Proteins Could Lead to New Pathogen-Defense Strategies

Shown is a structure of the first three subunits of an inflammasome, which consists of the NAIP5 and NLRC4 immune proteins, captured using cryo-electron microscopy. The NAIP5 subunit of the inflammasome is bound to flagellin (shown in light purple), a …

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Published on November 15, 2017 - 14:22 GMT

X-Rays Reveal the Biting Truth About Parrotfish Teeth

Scientists studied the microstructure of the coral-chomping teeth of the steephead parrotfish, pictured here, to learn about the fish’s powerful bite. (Credit: Alex The Reef Fish Geek/Nautilus Scuba Club, Cairns, Australia) So, you thought the fictional …

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Published on November 14, 2017 - 15:02 GMT

To Find New Biofuel Enzymes, It Can Take a Microbial Village

A new study led by researchers at the Department of Energy’s Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI), based at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), demonstrates the importance of microbial communities as a source of stable enzymes that could be …

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Published on November 13, 2017 - 14:07 GMT

Fuel Cell X-Ray Study Details Effects of Temperature and Moisture on Performance

This animated 3-D rendering (view larger size), generated by an X-ray-based imaging technique at Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source, shows tiny pockets of water (blue) in a fibrous sample. The X-ray experiments showed how moisture and temperature can …

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Published on November 8, 2017 - 18:39 GMT

The Mystery of the Star That Wouldn’t Die

An artist’s impression a supernova. (Credit: NASA/ESA/G. Bacon, STScI) Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley scientists were part of a team that helped to decipher one of the most bizarre spectacles ever seen in the night sky: A supernova that refused to stop …

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Published on November 8, 2017 - 14:27 GMT

New Study: Scientists Narrow Down the Search for Dark Photons Using Decade-Old Particle Collider Data

The BaBar detector at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. (Credit: SLAC) In its final years of operation, a particle collider in Northern California was refocused to search for signs of new particles that might help fill in some big blanks in our …

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Published on November 3, 2017 - 23:59 GMT

Scientists Harness Ultrafast Magnetism for Low-Power Memory

A new discovery by researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), UC Berkeley and UC Riverside could lead to non-volatile, energy-efficient computer memory without sacrificing speed. In this schematic of a magnetic memory array, an …

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Published on November 1, 2017 - 18:24 GMT

Berkeley Lab Researchers Help Map the Microbiome of Everything

From left, Berkeley Lab researchers Eric Dubinsky, Shi Wang (on left), and Neslihan Tas contributed to the Earth Microbiome Project. In the Earth Microbiome Project, an extensive global team collected more than 27,000 samples from numerous, diverse …

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Published on October 30, 2017 - 14:53 GMT

New Studies on Disordered Cathodes May Provide Much-Needed Jolt to Lithium Batteries

Today’s lithium-ion battery was invented so long ago, there are not many more efficiencies to wring out of it. Now researchers at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) report major progress in cathodes made with so …

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Published on October 24, 2017 - 21:45 GMT

Genome Research Challenges Previous Understanding of the Origin of Photosynthesis

–Written by Leah Sloan Plant biologists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), in collaboration with colleagues from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), have reconstructed the evolutionary history of photosynthesis to …

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Published on October 23, 2017 - 16:12 GMT

Berkeley Lab and Hydro-Québec Announce Partnership for Transportation Electrification and Energy Storage

Hydro-Québec and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have agreed to explore collaborations toward the research and development of manufacturing and scale-up technology to advance transportation …

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