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Showing releases 1-25 out of 31.
Public Release: 16-May-2013
 Nano LettersArtificial forest for solar water-splitting Berkeley Lab researchers have created the first fully integrated artificial photosynthesis nanosystem. While "artificial leaf" is the popular term for such a system, the key to this success was an "artificial forest." 
US Department of Energy Office of Science
Contact: Lynn Yarris
Public Release: 9-May-2013
Nature CommunicationsFlawed diamonds promise sensory perfection By extending the coherence time of electron states to over half a second, a team of scientists from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the University of California at Berkeley, and Harvard University has improved the performance of one of the most potent sensors of magnetic fields on the nanoscale -- a diamond defect no bigger than a pair of atoms called a nitrogen vacancy center. The achievement is important news for nanoscale sensors and quantum computing.
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, National Science Foundation, Israeli Ministry of Defense, North Atlantic Treaty Organization Science for Peace
Contact: Paul Preuss
Public Release: 9-May-2013
Biotechnology for BiofuelsNew advance in biofuel production Joint BioEnergy Institute researchers have developed an enzyme-free ionic liquid pretreatment of cellulosic biomass that makes it easier to recover fermentable sugars for biofuels and to recycle the ionic liquid.
US Department of Energy Office of Science
Contact: Lynn Yarris
Public Release: 5-May-2013
Nature GeoscienceAs climate changes, boreal forests to shift north and relinquish more carbon than expected New Berkeley Lab research maps how Earth's myriad climates -- and the ecosystems that depend on them -- could move from one area to another as global temperatures rise. The approach foresees big changes for one of the planet's great carbon sponges. Boreal forests will likely shift north at a steady clip this century. Along the way, the vegetation will relinquish more trapped carbon than most current climate models predict. Contact: Dan Krotz
Public Release: 30-Apr-2013
Nature CommunicationsDoes antimatter fall up or down? Theory and observations support the view that antimatter experiences gravity just as ordinary matter does, but the evidence so far has been indirect. Indeed, some theorists speculate that antimatter is antigravitational, that it may fall "up" instead of "down."
Department of Energy Office of Science, ALPHA Collaboration
Contact: Paul Preuss
Public Release: 29-Apr-2013
Nature MethodsComparing proteins at a glance A revolutionary X-ray analytical technique enables researchers at a glance to identify structural similarities and differences between multiple proteins under a variety of conditions and has already been used to gain valuable new insight into a prime protein target for cancer chemotherapy.
US Department of Energy Office of Science, National Institutes of Health
Contact: Lynn Yarris
Public Release: 25-Apr-2013
NatureBold move forward in molecular analyses New metrics for analyzing data from small angle scattering experiments should dramatically improve the ability of scientists to study the structures of macromolecules such as proteins and nanoparticles in solution.
US Department of Energy Office of Science, National Institutes of Health
Contact: Lynn Yarris
Public Release: 24-Apr-2013
Nature CommunicationsSpeeding the search for better methane capture Systematic in silico studies have identified several zeolite compounds that show technological promise for capturing methane, the main component of natural gas, that can serve as an ally or an adversary in combating global climate change.
US Department of Energy Office of Science
Contact: Lynn Yarris
Public Release: 7-Apr-2013
Nature Chemical BiologySweet success Using an ultrahigh-precision microscopy technique, Berkeley Lab researchers have uncovered a way to improve the collective catalytic activity of enzyme cocktails on cellulosic biomass, boosting the yields of sugars for the production of advanced biofuels.
Energy Biosciences Institute
Contact: Lynn Yarris
Public Release: 4-Apr-2013
DOE renews JBEI funding The Department of Energy has renewed funding for the Joint BioEnergy Institute for another five years. JBEI is a multi-institutional partnership for advanced biofuels research led by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
US Department of Energy Office of Science
Contact: Lynn Yarris
Public Release: 2-Apr-2013
Berkeley Lab researchers release guide to financing energy upgrade for K-12 school districts Energy costs K-12 schools in the U.S. $6 billion dollars annually. Spending less money on energy costs would leave more for funding-constrained school districts to spend on educating their students, according to researchers at Berkeley Lab's Environmental Energy Technologies Division. They have released a guide on planning and financing comprehensive energy upgrades that involve multiple measures and are targeted toward achieving significant and persistent energy savings.
US DOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
Contact: Allan Chen
Public Release: 29-Mar-2013
Plant Biotechnology JournalMaking do with more: Joint BioEnergy Institute researchers engineer plant cell walls to boost sugar yields for biofuels Using the tools of synthetic biology, JBEI researchers are engineering healthy plants whose lignocellulosic biomass can more easily be broken down into simple sugars for the production of clean, green and renewable advanced biofuels.
US Department of Energy Office of Science
Contact: Lynn Yarris
Public Release: 22-Mar-2013
PLOS Computational BiologyComputer simulations yield clues to how cells interact with surroundings Berkeley Lab scientists have developed a computer model of a protein that helps cells interact with their surroundings. Like its biological counterpart, the virtual integrin snippet is about twenty nanometers long. It also responds to changes in energy and other stimuli just as integrins do in real life. The result is a new way to explore how the protein connects a cell's inner and outer environments. Contact: Dan Krotz
Public Release: 21-Mar-2013
ScienceBerkeley Lab researchers use metamaterials to observe giant photonic spin hall effect Engineering a unique metamaterial of gold nanoantennas, Berkeley Lab researchers were able to obtain the strongest signal yet of the photonic spin Hall effect, an optical phenomenon of quantum mechanics that could play a prominent role in the future of computing.
US Department of Energy
Contact: Lynn Yarris
Public Release: 21-Mar-2013
Berkeley Lab scientists read the cosmic writing on the wall Thanks to a supersensitive space telescope and some sophisticated supercomputing, scientists from the international Planck collaboration have made the closest reading yet of the most ancient story in our universe: The cosmic microwave background.
US Department of Energy
Contact: Margie Wylie
Public Release: 14-Mar-2013
Building the massive simulation sets essential to Planck results The Planck collaboration will soon release its first cosmological results from trillions of measurements of the cosmic microwave background. Crucial to the results were tens of millions of hours of massively parallel processing at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab's National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, and the expertise of the Computational Cosmology Center's physicists and computational scientists.
US Department of Energy
Contact: Paul Preuss
Public Release: 13-Mar-2013
Nature MethodsPredictability: The brass ring for synthetic biology DNA sequences and statistical models have been unveiled that greatly increase the reliability and precision by which microbes can be engineered.
Department of Energy Office of Science, National Science Foundation
Contact: Lynn Yarris
Public Release: 13-Mar-2013
Nature PhysicsSurprising control over photoelectrons from a topological insulator Electrons flowing swiftly across the surface of topological insulators (TIs) are "spin polarized," their spin and momentum locked. The potential to control electron distribution in spintronic devices makes TIs a hot topic in materials science. Now scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have discovered another useful surprise.
US Department of Energy
Contact: Paul Preuss
Public Release: 7-Mar-2013
ScienceLong predicted atomic collapse state observed in graphene Seventy years ago theorists predicted superlarge nuclei would exhibit a quantum-mechanical phenomenon known as "atomic collapse." Recently materials scientists calculated that highly-charged impurities in graphene should exhibit a corresponding buildup of electrons partially localized in space and energy -- a unique electronic resonance. By constructing artificial superlarge nuclei on graphene, researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have achieved the first experimental observation of long-sought atomic collapse, with important implications for the future of graphene-based electronic devices.
Department of Energy Office of Science, Office of Naval Research, National Science Foundation
Contact: Paul Preuss
Public Release: 27-Feb-2013
NatureReading the human genome Berkeley Lab researchers have achieved a major advance in understanding how genetic information is transcribed from DNA to RNA by providing the first step-by-step look at the biomolecular machinery that reads the human genome.
National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Institute of General Medical Sciences, NIH/National Cancer Institute
Contact: Lynn Yarris
Public Release: 20-Feb-2013
Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesSearching for the solar system's chemical recipe The ratio of isotopes in elements like oxygen, sulfur, and nitrogen were once thought to be much the same everywhere, determined only by their different masses. Then isotope ratios in meteorites, interplanetary dust and gas, and the sun itself were found to differ from those on Earth. Planetary researchers now use Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Advanced Light Source to study these "mass-independent" effects and their origins in the chemical processes of the early solar system.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration, DOE Office of Science
Contact: Paul Preuss
Public Release: 17-Feb-2013
2013 AAAS Annual MeetingIn the blink of an eye: X-ray imaging on the attosecond timescale Berkeley Lab's Ali Belkacem has been using powerful laboratory-scale lasers to test whether multidimensional nonlinear x-ray spectroscopy on the attosecond timescale is practical for the light sources of the future -- and just what combination of beam characteristics is needed to define them. He'll discuss his work as part of the panel session titled "Attosecond Science in Chemical, Molecular Imaging, Spintronics, and Energy Science." Contact: Jon Weiner
Public Release: 15-Feb-2013
2013 AAAS Annual MeetingA closer look at life: X-ray microscopy hits the sweet spot for chemical and elemental imaging Berkeley Lab's Janos Kirz, who pioneered the development of soft x-ray microscopy and spectromicroscopy, will describe 2-D and 3-D x-ray chemical imaging of biological systems in a presentation at the 2013 AAAS annual meeting in Boston titled "Chemical and Elemental Imaging with X-Ray Microscopy." Contact: Jon Weiner
Public Release: 14-Feb-2013
ScienceA dual look at photosystem II using the world's most powerful X-ray laser Artificial photosynthesis and other new technologies based on Metalloenzyme catalysis will benefit from a technique for simultaenously collecting both diffraction and spectroscopy data demonstrated by Berkeley Lab and SLAC researchers at the world's most powerful X-ray laser.
US Department of Energy Office of Science
Contact: Lynn Yarris
Public Release: 14-Feb-2013
Molecular CellRevealing the secrets of motility in archaea The protein structure of the archaellum, the motor that propels many species of Archaea, the third domain of life, has been characterized for the first time by a team from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology. A ring made of six identical proteins derives energy from hydrolyzing adenosine triphosate and uses this energy to drive shape changes, both assembling and rotating the archaellum's whiplike propeller.
National Institutes of Health, Max Planck Institute, Max Planck Society, Dutch Science Organization, US Department of Energy Office of Science
Contact: Paul Preuss
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