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'Hindcasting' study investigates the extreme 2013 Colorado flood

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Using a publicly available climate model, Berkeley Lab researchers 'hindcast' the conditions that led to the Sept. 9-16, 2013 flooding around Boulder, Colo. and found that climate change attributed to human activity made the storm much more severe than would otherwise have occurred.

Journal: Weather and Climate Extremes

Berkeley Lab to lead multimillion-dollar geothermal energy project

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Business Announcement

The Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) will lead a new $9 million project aimed at removing technical barriers to commercialization of enhanced geothermal systems (EGS), a clean energy technology with the potential to power 100 million American homes.

Funder: Department of Energy

Report: Compact, precise beam could aid in nuclear security

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

A Berkeley Lab-led report highlights a new, compact technique for producing beams with precisely controlled energy and direction that could 'see' through thick steel and concrete to more easily detect and identify concealed or smuggled nuclear materials for national security and other applications.

Scientists see molecules 'breathe' in remarkable detail

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

In a milestone for studying a class of chemical reactions relevant to novel solar cells and memory storage devices, an international team of researchers working at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory used an X-ray laser to watch 'molecular breathing' -- waves of subtle in-and-out motions of atoms -- in real time and unprecedented detail.

New Berkeley lab algorithms extract biological structure from limited data

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new Berkeley Lab algorithmic framework called multi-tiered iterative phasing (M-TIP) utilizes advanced mathematical techniques to determine 3-D molecular structure of important nanoobjects like proteins and viruses from very sparse sets of noisy, single-particle data.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Scientists get first direct look at how electrons 'dance' with vibrating atoms

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have made the first direct measurements, and by far the most precise ones, of how electrons move in sync with atomic vibrations rippling through an exotic material, as if they were dancing to the same beat.

Journal: Science

SLAC's electron hub gets new 'metro map' for world's most powerful X-ray laser

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

The central hub for powerful electron beams at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory is getting a makeover to prepare for the installation of LCLS-II -- a major upgrade to the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS), the world's first hard X-ray free-electron laser.

Will brain-inspired chips make a dent in science's big data problems?

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Although neuromorphic computing is still in its infancy, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) researchers hope that these tiny, low-power, brain-inspired computing systems could one day help alleviate some of science's big data challenges. With funding from the Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) program, two groups of researchers are exploring how science might benefit from this new technology.

A whole-genome sequenced rice mutant resource for the study of biofuel feedstocks

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at the DOE Joint BioEnergy Institute, in collaboration with the Joint Genome Institute, are reporting the first whole-genome sequence of a mutant population of Kitaake, a model variety of rice. Their high-density, high-resolution catalog of mutations facilitates the discovery of novel genes and functional elements that control diverse biological pathways.

Journal: The Plant Cell
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health

New studies of ancient concrete could teach us to do as the Romans did

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new look inside 2,000-year-old Roman concrete has provided new clues to the evolving chemistry and mineral cements that allow ancient harbor structures to withstand the test of time.

Journal: American Mineralogist