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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Press Releases

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Published on October 16, 2017 - 17:07 GMT

NIH Awards $6.5 Million to Berkeley Lab for Augmenting Structural Biology Research Experience

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded $6.5 million to Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) to integrate existing synchrotron structural biology resources to better serve researchers. The grant will establish a center based at …

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Published on October 16, 2017 - 14:12 GMT

Scientists Decode the Origin of Universe’s Heavy Elements in the Light from a Neutron Star Merger

When Neutron Stars Collide: Click here for an animation showing a simulated merger of a pair of neutron stars. (Credit: Caltech) Sometimes – even in matters of science – you have to be lucky. On Aug. 17, scientists around the globe were treated to near- …

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Published on October 11, 2017 - 17:15 GMT

Injecting Electrons Jolts 2-D Structure Into New Atomic Pattern

The same electrostatic charge that can make hair stand on end and attach balloons to clothing could be an efficient way to drive atomically thin electronic memory devices of the future, according to a new study led by researchers at the Department of …

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Published on October 6, 2017 - 15:10 GMT

Reimagining Hydrogen: A Small Molecule With Large-Scale Ideas

While hydrogen is often talked about as a pollution-free fuel of the future, especially for use in fuel cell electric vehicles, hydrogen can be used for much more than zero-emission cars. In fact, from enhancing the flexibility of the grid to greening …

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Published on October 5, 2017 - 18:43 GMT

International Team Reconstructs Nanoscale Virus Features from Correlations of Scattered X-rays

As part of an international research team, Jeff Donatelli, Peter Zwart and Kanupriya Pande of the Center for Advanced Mathematics for Energy Research Applications (CAMERA) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) contributed key algorithms …

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Published on October 4, 2017 - 22:27 GMT

Berkeley Lab Tech Brings Nobel-Winning Cryo-EM Into Sharper Focus

Illustration courtesy of Martin Hogborn/The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Pioneering work by scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) played a key role in the 2017 Nobel Prize in chemistry, awarded …

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Published on October 4, 2017 - 17:08 GMT

Assessing Regional Earthquake Risk and Hazards in the Age of Exascale

With emerging exascale supercomputers, researchers will soon be able to accurately simulate the ground motions of regional earthquakes quickly and in unprecedented detail, as well as predict how these movements will impact energy infrastructure—from the …

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Published on October 3, 2017 - 19:51 GMT

How Berkeley Lab Software Helped Lead to the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics

Back in 2004, two years before LIGO began operating at design sensitivity and 13 years before the project received the 2017 Nobel Prize in physics, programming tools developed at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ( …

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Published on September 26, 2017 - 19:06 GMT

A Quantum Computer to Tackle Fundamental Science Problems

For more than 50 years, Moore’s Law has reigned supreme. The observation that the number of transistors on a computer chip doubles roughly every two years has set the pace for our modern digital revolution—making smartphones, personal computers and current …

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Published on September 26, 2017 - 15:17 GMT

Berkeley Lab Aims to Strengthen the Cybersecurity of the Grid

As the grid modernizes, communications between the grid and solar panels will standardize, providing both more resiliency as well as a vulnerability that could be exploited by hackers. (Credit: UC San Diego) As the U.S. electricity grid continues to …

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Published on September 25, 2017 - 15:29 GMT

Nanoparticle Supersoap Creates ‘Bijel’ With Potential as Sculptable Fluid

A new two-dimensional film, made of polymers and nanoparticles and developed by researchers at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), can direct two different non-mixing liquids into a variety of exotic …

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Published on September 18, 2017 - 19:06 GMT

Solar-to-Fuel System Recycles CO2 to Make Ethanol and Ethylene

Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have harnessed the power of photosynthesis to convert carbon dioxide into fuels and alcohols at efficiencies far greater than plants. The achievement marks a …

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Published on September 18, 2017 - 19:06 GMT

Copper Catalyst Yields High Efficiency CO2-to-Fuels Conversion

Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have developed a new electrocatalyst that can directly convert carbon dioxide into multicarbon fuels and alcohols using record-low inputs of energy. The work is …

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Published on September 14, 2017 - 12:36 GMT

New Study on Graphene-Wrapped Nanocrystals Makes Inroads Toward Next-Gen Fuel Cells

A new study explains how an ultrathin oxide layer (oxygen atoms shown in red) coating graphene-wrapped magnesium nanoparticles (orange) still allows in hydrogen atoms (blue) for hydrogen storage applications. (Credit: Berkeley Lab) A powdery mix of metal …

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Published on September 13, 2017 - 17:05 GMT

Berkeley Lab Scientists Map Key DNA Protein Complex at Near-Atomic Resolution

Chalking up another success for a new imaging technology that has energized the field of structural biology, researchers at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) obtained the highest resolution map yet of a large …

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Published on September 12, 2017 - 17:47 GMT

Bringing Atomic Mapping to the Mainstream

This image shows the atomic composition of an iron-platinum nanoparticle, split into separate parts that show the position of individual atoms. (Credit: Colin Ophus and Florian Niekiel/Berkeley Lab) Mapping the internal atomic structure of small particles …

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Published on September 5, 2017 - 15:24 GMT

Scientists Fine-Tune System to Create ‘Syngas’ from CO2

Scientists have developed a new recipe for creating synthesis gas mixtures, or syngas, that involves adding a pinch of copper atoms sprinkled atop a gold surface. The new material supports a room-temperature electrochemical reaction that can convert carbon …

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Published on August 31, 2017 - 11:54 GMT

X-ray Footprinting Solves Mystery of Metal-Breathing Protein

Results from X-ray footprinting mass spectrometry (XFMS) experiments at Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source, mapped out on these 3-D structural renderings of the protein, helped researchers identify where the protein binds with a mineral. The red areas …

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Published on August 30, 2017 - 17:43 GMT

Scientists Bring Visual ‘Magic’ to Light

A collage of images showing butterfly wings at different magnifications. (Credit: Wikimedia Commons) A butterfly’s wings and a peacock’s feathers use nanoscale architecture to bend light and produce brilliant colors without pigments or dyes, and scientists …

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Published on August 29, 2017 - 21:29 GMT

New X-Ray Laser Technique Reveals Magnetic Skyrmion Fluctuations

This graphic depicts the orientations of electron spins in a magnetic skyrmion that is 100 nanometers in diameter and composed of about 8 million atoms. The spin of the central atom points down (yellow), while those of the surrounding atoms change slowly, …

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