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X-ray study reveals new details of how burrowing sea creatures shape geology

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Research at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory reveals new details about how tiny, burrowing sea organisms can influence the chemistry and structure of rocks where hydrocarbon deposits such as oil and gas are found.

Ming Yi awarded L'Oréal USA For Women in Science Fellowship

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Former Stanford University graduate student Ming Yi has been awarded the $60,000 L'Oréal USA For Women in Science Fellowship, which is given to five US-based women each year as part of an effort to raise awareness of women's contributions to science and identify exceptional female researchers to serve as role models.

Berkeley Lab's Yelick lauded for advances in programmability of HPC systems

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

ACM and IEEE Computer Society have named Katherine Yelick as the recipient of the 2015 ACM/IEEE Computer Society Ken Kennedy Award for innovative research contributions to parallel computing languages that have been used in both the research community and in production environments. She was also cited for her strategic leadership of the national research laboratories and for developing novel educational and mentoring tools.

It's solid: Storing hydrogen in a new form

DOE/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Business Announcement

As part of a tri-lab consortium, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers will develop tools and understanding necessary for designing new solid-state materials for storing hydrogen gas.

Newly discovered 'design rule' brings nature-inspired nanostructures one step closer

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists aspire to build nanostructures that mimic the complexity and function of nature's proteins, but are made of durable and synthetic materials. These microscopic widgets could be customized into chemical detectors or catalysts. But they must first learn how to finesse the materials they'll use to build these structures. A discovery by Berkeley Lab scientists is a big step in this direction. They discovered a design rule that enables a recently created material to exist.

Journal: Nature

JBEI joins 100/500 club

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

The Joint BioEnergy Institute is now a member of the '100/500 Club,' having filed its 100th patent application and published its 500th scientific paper. JBEI is a DOE Bioenergy Research Center led by Berkeley Lab.

200-terawatt laser brings new extremes in heat, pressure to X-ray experiments

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

A newly upgraded high-power laser at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory will blaze new trails across many fields of science by recreating the universe's most extreme conditions, such as those at the heart of stars and planets, in a lab.

A simpler way to estimate the feedback between permafrost carbon and climate

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers led by a scientist from Berkeley Lab have developed a simple model of permafrost carbon based on direct observations. Their approach could help climate scientists evaluate how well permafrost dynamics are represented in the Earth system models used to predict climate change.

Journal: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London

Price of solar energy in the United States has fallen to 5¢/kWh on average

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Business Announcement

Solar energy pricing is at an all-time low, according to a new report released by Berkeley Lab. Driven by lower installed costs, improved project performance, and a race to build projects ahead of a reduction in a key federal incentive, utility-scale solar project developers have been negotiating power sales agreements with utilities at prices averaging just 5¢/kWh.

Funder: US Department of Energy's SunShot Initiative within the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

Feng Lin wins Spicer Award for smart window, battery research

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Feng Lin, a former postdoctoral researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, has been selected to receive the annual William E. and Diane M. Spicer Young Investigator Award for X-ray experiments at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory that led to new approaches in the design of energy-efficient, color-changing 'smart' windows and high-capacity lithium-ion batteries.