News By Location

News from CA

Select a state to view local articles and features

How this Martian moon became the 'Death Star'

DOE/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

For the first time, physicists at LLNL have demonstrated how an asteroid or comet impact could have created Stickney crater without destroying Phobos completely. The research, which also debunks a theory regarding the moon's mysterious grooved terrain, was published in Geophysical Review Letters.

SLAC Theoretical Physicist James Bjorken to Share 2017 Wilson Prize

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Theoretical physicist James D. 'BJ' Bjorken, a professor emeritus at Stanford University and the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, will share the 2017 Robert R. Wilson Prize for Achievement in the Physics of Particle Accelerators for groundbreaking theoretical work that helped researchers understand and cope with an important constraint on the intensity and focus of particle beams in accelerators.

Brain modulyzer provides interactive window into the brain

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new tool developed at Berkeley Lab allows researchers to interactively explore the hierarchical processes that happen in the brain when it is resting or performing tasks. Scientists also hope that the tool can shed some light on how neurological diseases like Alzheimer's spread throughout the brain.

Journal: IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

Q&A: SLAC cosmology research featured in Terrence Malick's 'Voyage of Time'

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Terrence Malick's science documentary 'Voyage of Time' features two scenes contributed by visualization expert Ralf Kaehler and astrophysicist Tom Abel from the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC), a joint institute of Stanford University and the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.

Smallest. Transistor. Ever.

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A research team led by Berkeley Lab material scientists has created a transistor with a working 1-nanometer gate, breaking a size barrier that had been set by the laws of physics. The achievement could be a key to extending the life of Moore's Law.

Journal: Science
Funder: Department of Energy

Scientists rev up speed of bionic enzyme reactions

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Bionic enzymes got a needed boost in speed thanks to new research at the Berkeley Lab. By pairing a noble metal with a natural enzyme, scientists created a hybrid capable of churning out molecules at a rate comparable to biological counterparts. The development represents a major advance for artificial metalloenzymes, which promise to open up a world of beneficial products not currently possible with natural enzymes.

Journal: Science
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

For normal heart function, look beyond the genes

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Berkeley Lab researchers have compiled a comprehensive genome-wide map of more than 80,000 enhancers considered relevant to human heart development and function. They went on to test two of the enhancers in mice, showing that when the enhancers were missing, the heart worked abnormally. The finding bolsters the importance of DNA segments once considered 'junk.'

Journal: Nature Communications
Funder: National Institutes of Health

The incredible shrinking particle accelerator

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new data analysis/visualization toolkit developed at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is designed to help speed particle accelerator research and design by enabling in situ visualization and analysis of accelerator simulations at scale.

Journal: IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications

New technology helps pinpoint sources of water contamination

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

When the local water management agency closes your favorite beach due to unhealthy water quality, how reliable are the tests they base their decisions on? As it turns out, those tests, as well as the standards behind them, have not been updated in decades. Now scientists from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have developed a highly accurate, DNA-based method to detect and distinguish sources of microbial contamination in water.

Journal: Water Research

College students work on wide range of projects at SLAC's X-ray laser

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

More than 40 college students spent 10 weeks at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory this summer working on research projects related to the lab's Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) X-ray laser.