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President Obama bestows National Medal of Science on SLAC director emeritus Burton Richter

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

President Barack Obama presented SLAC director emeritus and Nobel Prize winner Burton Richter with the National Medal of Science at a Nov. 20 ceremony at the White House. Richter was one of 10 distinguished researchers presented with the National Medal of Science, the highest honor for achievement and leadership in advancing the field of science.

For important tumor-suppressing protein, context is key

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Berkeley Lab scientists have learned new details about how an important tumor-suppressing protein, called p53, binds to the human genome. As with many things in life, they found that context makes a big difference.

Journal: PLOS One

Agreement gives energy storage companies easier access to SLAC

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

More than a dozen energy-storage companies now have streamlined access to research facilities and expertise at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory under a new cooperative research and development agreement, or CRADA.

Livermore scientists show salinity counts when it comes to sea level

DOE/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Using ocean observations and a large suite of climate models, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientists have found that long-term salinity changes have a stronger influence on regional sea level changes than previously thought.

Journal: Environmental Research Letters

As temperatures rise, soil will relinquish less carbon to the atmosphere than predicted

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Current climate models probably overestimate the amount of carbon that will be released from soil into the atmosphere as global temperatures rise, according to research from Berkeley Lab.

Journal: Nature Climate Change

Lawrence Livermore develops method to measure residual stress in 3-D printed metal parts

DOE/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers have developed an efficient method to measure residual stress in metal parts produced by powder-bed fusion additive manufacturing.

SUNCAT director Jens Nørskov awarded 2015 Langmuir Prize

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Jens Nørskov, a professor at Stanford University and the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, will receive the 2015 Irving Langmuir Prize of the American Physical Society for his groundbreaking work on catalysis, which is used to promote chemical reactions in thousands of industrial processes for making fertilizers, fuels, plastics and a host of other products.

New project will expand opportunities for biological discovery with SLAC's X-ray laser

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

A planned experimental station at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory will expand capabilities for atomic-scale explorations in human health, biology, energy and environmental science using one of the brightest X-ray sources on the planet.

Latest supercomputers enable high-resolution climate models, truer simulation of extreme weather

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Not long ago, it would have taken several years to run a high-resolution simulation on a global climate model. But using some of the most powerful supercomputers now available, Berkeley Lab scientist Michael Wehner was able to complete a run in just three months. What he found was that not only were the simulations much closer to actual observations, but the high-resolution models were far better at reproducing intense storms, such as hurricanes and cyclones.

Journal: Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
Funder: Department of Energy

Study at SLAC explains atomic action in high-temperature superconductors

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A study at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory suggests for the first time how scientists might deliberately engineer superconductors that work at higher temperatures.

Journal: Nature
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy