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Perfection in sight: SLAC receives new mirrors for X-ray laser

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Scientists are installing new mirrors to improve the quality of the X-ray laser beam at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.

Stanford, SLAC play key role in new DOE battery consortium

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

A newly formed Battery500 consortium, including researchers from Stanford University and the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, will receive up to $10 million each year for the next five years to develop a new battery technology that could make electric vehicles go two to three times farther and make them less expensive.

Researchers find molecular switch that triggers bacterial pathogenicity

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study led by scientists at Berkeley Lab has revealed that the supercoiling of bacterial chromosomes around histone-like proteins can trigger the expression of genes that make the microbe invasive. The discovery could provide a new target for the development of drugs to prevent or treat bacterial infection.

Journal: Science Advances
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, National Institutes of Health

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory chemist named Howes Scholar

DOE/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Lawrence Fellow Aurora Pribram-Jones is one of two recipients of the Howes Scholar award presented by the Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship Program at its annual program review.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

SLAC X-ray studies help NASA develop printable electronics for Mars mission

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Plans begin decades in advance for a tremendous effort such as the first manned mission to Mars. The details are as fine -- and essential -- as how astronauts will breathe and eat and track their health.

Lawrence Livermore collects funds for solar power improvement

DOE/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), in collaboration with Giant Leap Technologies, received $1.75 million Thursday from the Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy to improve solar power efficiency.

Funder: DOE/Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

All e-cigarettes emit harmful chemicals, but some emit more than others

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

While previous studies have found that electronic cigarettes emit toxic compounds, a new study from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has pinpointed the source of these emissions and shown how factors such as the temperature, type, and age of the device play a role in emission levels, information that could be valuable to both manufacturers and regulators seeking to minimize the health impacts of these increasingly popular devices.

Journal: Environmental Science & Technology

World's most sensitive dark matter detector completes search

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The Large Underground Xenon (LUX) dark matter experiment, which, with the help of Berkeley Lab researchers, operates beneath a mile of rock at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in the Black Hills of South Dakota, has completed its search for the missing matter of the universe. At a meeting in the UK, LUX scientific collaborators presented the results from the detector's final 20-month run.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, National Science Foundation
Meeting: IDM2016, Identification of Dark Matter

Scientists harness CO2 to consolidate biofuel production process

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

JBEI scientists have shown that adding carbon dioxide gas during the deconstruction phase of biofuel production successfully neutralized the toxicity of ionic liquids. The technique, which is reversible, allows the liquid to be recycled, representing a major step forward in streamlining the biofuel production process.

Journal: Energy & Environmental Science
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

SLAC, Stanford scientists work with startup to get tabletop laser through the 'Valley of Death'

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Scientists at Stanford University and the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have collaborated with a local startup company to turn a novel tabletop laser -- one that produces extreme ultraviolet light at unprecedented energies and pulse rates for studies of complex materials -- into a commercial product.