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How a new telescope will measure the expansion of the universe

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Michael Levi and David Schlegel, physicists at Berkeley Lab, discuss the future of the DESI project and how its forthcoming map will help scientists better understand dark energy.

Researchers study how metal contamination makes gasoline production inefficient

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Scientists at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Utrecht University have identified key mechanisms of the aging process of catalyst particles that are used to refine crude oil into gasoline. This advance could lead to more efficient gasoline production.

SIMES researchers elected to National Academy of Sciences

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Materials scientists and professors at Stanford University and the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory Zhi-Xun Shen, Shoucheng Zhang and Aharon Kapitulnik were elected to the National Academy of Sciences. All three researchers are principal investigators at the joint SLAC and Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences.

Counting all costs, Berkeley Lab researchers find that saving energy is still cheap

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at Berkeley Lab have conducted the most comprehensive study yet of the full cost of saving electricity by US utility efficiency programs and now have an answer: 4.6 cents. That's the average total cost of saving a kilowatt-hour in 20 states from 2009 to 2013.

Funder: US Department of Energy's Offices of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability, Office of Energy Policy and Systems Analysis

X-ray study may aid in designing better blood pressure drugs

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

An experiment at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory has revealed in atomic detail how a hypertension drug binds to a cellular receptor that plays a key role in regulating blood pressure. The results could help scientists design new drugs that better control blood pressure while limiting side effects.

Journal: Cell

NERSC, Cray move forward with next-generation scientific computing

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Business Announcement

The US Department of Energy's National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center and Cray Inc. announced today that they have finalized a new contract for a Cray XC40 supercomputer that will be the first NERSC system installed in the newly built Computational Research and Theory facility at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

New class of 3-D-printed aerogels improve energy storage

DOE/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers have made graphene aerogel microlattices with an engineered architecture via a 3-D printing technique known as direct ink writing.

Journal: Nature Communications

SLAC and Stanford's James D. Bjorken receives 2015 High Energy and Particle Physics Prize

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

James D. Bjorken, a theoretical physicist and professor emeritus at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and at Stanford University, has been awarded the 2015 High Energy and Particle Physics Prize of the European Physical Society. Along with four other scientists, he was honored for theoretical work that revolutionized our understanding of the internal structure of the proton.

Major advance in artificial photosynthesis poses win/win for the environment

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

By combining biocompatible light-capturing nanowire arrays with select bacterial populations, a potentially game-changing new artificial photosynthesis system offers a win/win situation for the environment: solar-powered green chemistry using sequestered carbon dioxide.

Journal: Nano Letters
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Electrolyte genome could be battery game-changer

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory scientist Kristin Persson says she can take some of the guesswork out of the electrolyte discovery process with her Electrolyte Genome.