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X-ray studies could help make LIGO gravitational wave detector 10 times more sensitive

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Scientists from Stanford University and the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory are using powerful X-rays to study high-performance mirror coatings that could help make the LIGO gravitational wave observatory 10 times more sensitive to cosmic events that ripple space-time.

Modern off-grid lighting could create 2 million new jobs in developing world

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Many households in impoverished regions around the world are starting to shift away from inefficient and polluting fuel-based lighting -- such as candles, firewood, and kerosene lanterns -- to solar-LED systems. While this trend has tremendous environmental benefits, a new study by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has found that it spurs economic development as well, to the tune of 2 million potential new jobs.

Journal: Energy for Sustainable Development
Funder: University of California/Blum Center for Developing Economies

Comparing fungal secretions to uncover carbon compound degradation pathways

DOE/Joint Genome Institute
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Fungal secretomes, those collections of all molecules secreted by a cell, contain enzymes that can break down plant cell wall components, useful to bioenergy researchers looking to cost-effectively convert plant mass into sustainable, alternative transportation fuels. In a study published July 19, 2016, in PLOS ONE, a comparative analysis of four fungal secretomes revealed more about the variety of pathways they deploy to break down carbon compounds.

Journal: PLOS One
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

New training videos leverage ESnet's expertise to improve network performance globally

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Business Announcement

The Department of Energy's Energy Sciences Network, or ESnet, and the Network Startup Resource Center (NSRC) at the University of Oregon are teaming up to create an extensive video training library to help organizations improve the performance of their networks by deploying the perfSONAR network measurement tools and the Science DMZ network architecture.

Research begins at SLAC's newest X-ray laser experimental station

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

A new X-ray laser experimental station at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory recently welcomed its first research group, scientists from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Dark energy measured with record-breaking map of 1.2 million galaxies

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A team of hundreds of physicists and astronomers, including those from Berkeley Lab, have announced results from the largest-ever, three-dimensional map of distant galaxies. The team constructed this map to make one of the most precise measurements yet of the dark energy currently driving the accelerated expansion of the Universe.

Journal: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Siemann Graduate Fellowships help advance accelerator research

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Four graduate students working on innovative accelerator technologies at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have been awarded Robert H. Siemann Graduate Fellowships in Physics. Established in memory of long-time SLAC accelerator physicist and Stanford faculty member Robert Siemann, the fellowship provides funding to outstanding graduate students doing accelerator research at the lab.

Berkeley Lab scientists grow atomically thin transistors and circuits

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In an advance that helps pave the way for next-generation electronics and computing technologies -- and possibly paper-thin gadgets -- scientists with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory developed a way to chemically assemble transistors and circuits that are only a few atoms thick.

Journal: Nature Nanotechnology
Funder: Office of Naval Research and National Science Foundation

Scientists find evidence for climate change in satellite cloud record

DOE/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists have found that changes in cloud patterns during the last three decades match those predicted by climate model simulations. These cloud changes are likely to have had a warming effect on the planet.

Journal: Nature

New discovery could better predict how semiconductors weather abuse

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Berkeley Lab scientists at DOE's Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis have found a way to better predict how thin-film semiconductors weather the harsh conditions in systems that convert sunlight, water and carbon dioxide into fuel.

Journal: Nature Communications
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy