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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory News
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UC Berkeley Selects SKS Investments as Richmond Field Station Developer in Competition for Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Proposed Second Campus Project
Officials from the City of Richmond announced today that the San Francisco firm, SKS Investments, has been selected by the University of California, Berkeley as developer for the Richmond Field Station for Lawrence Berkeley ...
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Black carbon a significant factor in melting of Himalayan glaciers
The fact that glaciers in the Himalayan mountains are thinning is not disputed. However, few researchers have attempted to rigorously examine and quantify the causes. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory scientist Surabi Menon set out to isolate ...
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Weak lensing gains strength
Weak gravitational lensing is a uniquely promising way to learn how much dark matter there is in the Universe and how its distribution has evolved since the distant past. New work by a team led by a cosmologist from the U.S. Department of Energy’s ...
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Berkeley researchers take the lead out of piezoelectrics
There is good news for the global effort to reduce the amount of lead in the environment and for the growing array of technologies that rely upon the piezoelectric effect. A lead-free alternative to the current crop of piezoelectric materials has ...
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Berkeley Lab and China’s Peking University forge ties on carbon capture and storage research
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and China’s Peking University agreed on Nov. 12 to jointly pursue the development of safe and effective carbon capture and storage techniques. This technology holds strong promise to help mitigate climate ...
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Berkeley researchers create first hyperlens for sound waves
Ultrasound and underwater sonar devices could “see” a big improvement thanks to development of the world’s first acoustic hyperlens. Created by researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), ...
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Berkeley researchers find new route to nano self-assembly
If the promise of nanotechnology is to be fulfilled, nanoparticles will have to be able to make something of themselves. An important advance towards this goal has been achieved by researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley ...
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Accelerators for America’s future: An exercise in integration
The first thing the word accelerator brings to mind is often a high-energy machine like Fermilab’s Tevatron or CERN’s Large Hadron Collider. But accelerators are ubiquitous in modern life; they can be found everywhere from factories and hospitals to ...
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DOE to explore scientific cloud computing at Argonne, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories
Cloud computing is gaining traction in the commercial world, but can such an approach also meet the computing and data storage demands of the nation’s scientific community? A new program funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act through ...
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Superheavy element 114 confirmed by Berkeley Lab Nuclear Scientists
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy`s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have been able to confirm the production of the superheavy element 114, ten years after a group in Russia, at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, ...
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Berkeley Lab Science at the Theater: Hope or Hype? What’s next for biofuels?
From the sun to your gas tank: A new breed of biofuels may help solve the global energy challenge and reduce the impact of fossil fuels on global warming. KTVU Channel 2 health and science editor John Fowler will moderate a panel of three Lawrence ...
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Gold solution for enhancing nanocrystal electrical conductance
In a development that holds much promise for the future of solar cells made from nanocrystals, and the use of solar energy to produce clean and renewable liquid transportation fuels, researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley ...
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Berkeley lab’s ESnet receives US$62m to develop World’s fastest computer network
As scientists in a wide variety of disciplines increasingly rely on supercomputers and collaboration with colleagues around the world to advance their research, managing and sharing the mountain of data generated by their investigations will soon ...
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Dark energy from the ground up: Make way for BigBOSS
Several ways have been proposed to examine dark energy, in hopes of finding out just what it is. One of them, “supernovae” for short, certainly works: it’s how dark energy was discovered in the first place. Other independent techniques, such as weak ...
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More than meets the eye: New blue light nanocrystals
Berkeley Lab researchers have produced non-toxic magnesium oxide nanocrystals that efficiently emit blue light and could also play a role in long-term storage of carbon dioxide, a potential means of tempering the effects of global warming. In its ...
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Scientists track chemical changes in cells as they endure extreme conditions
One of nature’s most gripping feats of survival is now better understood. For the first time, scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory observed the chemical changes in individual cells that enable them to ...
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Computer simulations shed light on nanosized minerals
The red and blue images appear ghostly, like a fleeting glimpse of something that’s never been seen before — which is true. Using computer simulations, Berkeley Lab scientists have developed the first predicted images of water molecules surrounding ...
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New report released describing climate change impacts on the US
Two researchers at the US Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), Evan Mills and Michael Wehner, contributed to the analysis of the effects of climate change on all regions of the United States, described in a ...
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Nanocrystals reveal activity within cells
Berkeley Lab scientists have developed nanocrystals that act as individual investigators of activity within a cell. These light emitting probes represent a significant step in scrutinizing the behaviors of proteins and other components in complex ...
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Using lasers to detect explosives and hazardous waste
A soldier in a humvee aims a portable device at an abandoned car 50 meters away (more than 150 feet). Pressing a button, a laser in the device fires. She reads a screen, and beckons her patrol to move away quickly. In a lab, a technician is ...