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CLAIRE brings electron microscopy to soft materials

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Berkeley Lab researchers, working at the Molecular Foundry, have invented a technique called 'CLAIRE' that extends the incredible resolution of electron microscopy to the noninvasive nanoscale imaging of soft matter, including biomolecules.

Journal: Nano Letters
Funder: US Department of Energy's Office of Science, National Science Foundation

Construction of LSST clean room at SLAC completed

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Engineers and scientists at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory working on the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) gathered on May 8 to celebrate the completion of a new clean room, where they will soon begin to assemble the largest digital camera ever built.

Using microbial communities to assess environmental contamination

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A study sponsored by ENIGMA, a DOE 'Scientific Focus Area Program' based at the Berkeley Lab has found that statistical analysis of DNA from natural microbial communities can be used to accurately identify environmental contaminants and serve as quantitative geochemical biosensors.

Journal: mBio
Funder: US Department of Energy's Office of Science

'Chombo-crunch' sinks its teeth into fluid dynamics

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory are breaking new ground in the modeling of complex flows in energy and oil and gas applications, thanks to a computational fluid dynamics and transport code dubbed 'Chombo-Crunch.'

SLAC researcher receives DOE 'Early Career' grant to support X-ray optics and imaging

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Anne Sakdinawat, an associate staff scientist at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, has been recognized with a prestigious DOE Early Career Research Program grant to advance her work in creating and using next-generation focusing and imaging devices for X-ray experiments at SLAC and other research sites.

NuSTAR provides explosive evidence for supernova asymmetry

DOE/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

New results from the NASA NuSTAR telescope show that a supernova close to our galaxy experienced a single-sided explosion. A team of scientists including Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers found that X-ray emissions taken with the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array show that the Supernova 1987A explosion was highly asymmetric. The results appear in the May 8 edition of the journal, Science.

Journal: Science

Channeling valleytronics in graphene

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Berkeley Lab researchers, working at the Advanced Light Source, have discovered topologically protected 1-D electron conducting channels at the domain walls of bilayer graphene that should prove useful for valleytronics.

Journal: Nature
Funder: US Department of Energy's Office of Science

A hot start to the origin of life?

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers from Berkeley Lab and the University of Hawaii at Manoa have shown for the first time that cosmic hot spots, such as those near stars, could be excellent environments for the creation of molecular precursors to DNA.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, Office of Science

Compact light source improves CT scans

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

A new study shows that the recently developed Compact Light Source -- a commercial X-ray source with roots in research and development efforts at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory -- enables computer tomography scans that reveal more detail than routine scans performed at hospitals today. The new technology could soon be used in preclinical studies and help researchers better understand cancer and other diseases.

New tool shrinks big data in biology studies at SLAC's X-ray laser

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

A team led by Stanford scientists has created software that tackles the big data problem for X-ray laser experiments at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. The program allows researchers to tease out more details while using far fewer samples and less data and time.