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SLAC and Stanford's James D. Bjorken shares 2015 Wolf Prize in Physics

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

SLAC theoretical physicist and Stanford Professor Emeritus James D. 'BJ' Bjorken has been awarded the 2015 Wolf Prize in Physics for his key role in elucidating the nature of the strong force and predicting what would happen if electrons were violently slammed into protons in the atomic nucleus.

Scientists get first glimpse of a chemical bond being born

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists have used an X-ray laser at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory to get the first glimpse of the transition state where two atoms begin to form a weak bond on the way to becoming a molecule.

Journal: Science

Berkeley Lab researchers at AAAS

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Can more accurate climate models help us understand extreme weather events? What can we expect with the upcoming restart of the Large Hadron Collider and what does the future of accelerators look like? These questions, and the ongoing search for a better battery, are just some of the many presentations by Berkeley Lab researchers at this year's AAAS meeting. And don't forget to stop by our booth (#406) in the Exhibit Hall this week.

Meeting: 2015 AAAS Annual Meeting

Bacterial armor holds clues for self-assembling nanostructures

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Berkeley Lab researchers at the Molecular Foundry have uncovered key details in the process by which bacterial proteins self-assemble into a protective coating, like chainmail armor. This process can be a model for the self-assembly of 2-D and 3-D nanostructures.

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

Scientists take first X-ray portraits of living bacteria at the LCLS

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers working at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have captured the first X-ray portraits of living bacteria. This milestone, reported in the Feb. 11 issue of Nature Communications, is a first step toward possible X-ray explorations of the molecular machinery at work in viral infections, cell division, photosynthesis and other processes that are important to biology, human health and our environment.

Journal: Nature Communications

SLAC hosts 11th annual Regional DOE Science Bowl

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

The Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory welcomed 20 high school teams from five San Francisco Bay Area counties to the 2015 Regional DOE Science Bowl on Feb. 7. It was the 11th time the lab hosted the annual event.

National Academy of Engineering elects SUNCAT director Jens Nørskov

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Jens Nørskov, director of the SUNCAT Center for Interface Science and Catalysis at Stanford and the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, has been named a member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), one of the highest professional distinctions for engineers.

New design tool for metamaterials

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Berkeley Lab researchers have shown that it is possible to predict the nonlinear optical properties of metamaterials using a recent theory for nonlinear light scattering when light passes through nanostructures.

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

DARPA taps lab to help restore sense of touch to amputees

DOE/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Business Announcement

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency recently selected Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to join a collaborative research team that intends to build the world's first neural system to enable naturalistic feeling and movements in prosthetic hands.

Precision growth of light-emitting nanowires

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A novel approach to growing nanowires promises a new means of control over their light-emitting and electronic properties. Berkeley Lab researchers demonstrated a new growth technique that uses specially engineered catalysts. These catalysts have given scientists more options than ever in turning the color of light-emitting nanowires.

Journal: Nano Letters
Funder: Office of Basic Energy Sciences., US Department of Energy's Office of Science