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5 ways SLAC's X-ray laser can change the way we live

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Here are five ways SLAC's X-ray laser and the science it enables can impact our future.

Multi-scale simulations solve a plasma turbulence mystery

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Cutting-edge simulations run at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center have yielded exciting answers to long-standing questions about plasma heat loss that have previously stymied efforts to predict the performance of fusion reactors. The findings could pave the way to developing fusion as an alternative energy source.

Journal: Nuclear Fusion

Cyclotron Road announces the selection of its second cohort of innovators

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Business Announcement

Today, Berkeley Lab's Cyclotron Road program announced the selection of its second cohort of innovators, whose projects include next generation batteries, advanced materials, biomanufacturing, and solar technologies. Cyclotron Road recruits entrepreneurial researchers and embeds them at Berkeley Lab for up to two years in a mentored technology entrepreneurship program.

Funder: Dept. of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy's Advanced Manufacturing Office

New form of electron-beam imaging can see elements that are 'invisible' to common methods

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists at Berkeley Lab have developed a new imaging technique, tested on samples of nanoscale gold and carbon, that greatly improves images of light elements using fewer electrons. The technique can reveal structural details for materials that would be invisible to a traditional electron-imaging method.

Journal: Nature Communications

New way to reduce plant lignin could lead to cheaper biofuels

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Berkeley Lab scientists have shown for the first time that an enzyme can be tweaked to reduce lignin in plants. Their technique could help lower the cost of converting biomass into carbon-neutral fuels to power your car and other sustainably developed bio-products.

Journal: Plant and Cell Physiology

Updated workflows for new LHC era

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

After a massive upgrade, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is smashing particles at an unprecedented 13 teraelectronvolts (TeV) -- nearly double the energy of its previous run. In just one second, the LHC can now produce up to 1 billion collisions and generate up to 10 gigabytes of data. To deal with the new data deluge, researchers working on the LHC's ATLAS experiment are relying on updated workflow management tools developed primarily by Berkeley Lab researchers.

New satellite with superior X-ray vision launched

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Although the star-covered night sky is regarded by many as a synonym of serenity, the cosmos is in fact a rather hostile place. It hosts many extreme environments that would instantaneously eradicate any life nearby. A new space mission is about to reveal this violent nature in greater detail than ever before: on Feb. 17, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launched its ASTRO-H satellite -- a very precise and sensitive eye for X-rays emerging from hot and energetic processes in space.

Berkeley Lab, UC Berkeley scientists to participate in new NASA Space Telescope Project

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Business Announcement

Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley scientists will play a role in a new NASA space telescope project exploring dark energy, alien worlds and the evolution of galaxies, galaxy clusters and the large-scale structure of the universe.

A new spin on quantum computing: Scientists train electrons with microwaves

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In what may provide a potential path to processing information in a quantum computer, researchers have switched an intrinsic property of electrons from an excited state to a relaxed state on demand using a device that served as a microwave 'tuning fork.'

Journal: Nature

Most precise measurement of energy range for particles produced by nuclear reactors

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

An international team that includes researchers from the US Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has captured the most precise --and puzzling -- energy measurements yet of ghostly particles called reactor antineutrinos produced at a nuclear power complex in China.

Journal: Physical Review Letters