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Lord of the microrings

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Berkeley Lab researchers report a significant breakthrough in laser technology with the development of a unique microring laser cavity that can produce single-mode lasing on demand. This advance holds ramifications for a wide range of optoelectronic applications including metrology and interferometry, data storage and communications, and high-resolution spectroscopy.

Journal: Science
Funder: Office of Naval Research

Lawrence Livermore develops infrared camera system to view tokamak from the inside

DOE/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Business Announcement

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers, in collaboration with General Atomics and the University of Arizona, have developed an infrared and visible camera viewing system that's able to produce wide-angle, tangential views of full poloidal (north-south direction of the magnetic field) cross-sections inside the tokamak. The camera's images provide researchers with data about the interior conditions of the DIII-D, which was built under contract for the Department of Energy. DOE provides funding for its operation.

SLAC's earliest websites reappear in 'Stanford Wayback'

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

The Stanford University Libraries have restored the earliest websites of the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and made them available to browse once again.

Tiny carbon nanotube pores make big impact

DOE/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A team led by the Lawrence Livermore scientists has created a new kind of ion channel based on short carbon nanotubes, which can be inserted into synthetic bilayers and live cell membranes to form tiny pores that transport water, protons, small ions and DNA.

Journal: Nature

Creating the coldest cubic meter in the universe

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Business Announcement

As part of an international collaboration, Berkeley Lab scientists have helped create the coldest cubic meter in the universe. The cooled chamber -- roughly the size of a vending machine -- was chilled to 6 milliKelvin or -273.144 degrees Celsius in preparation for a forthcoming experiment that will study neutrinos, ghostlike particles that could hold the key to the existence of matter around us.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Boosting biogasoline production in microbes

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers with the Joint BioEnergy Institute have identified microbial genes that can improve both the tolerance and the production of biogasoline in engineered strains of E. coli.

Journal: mBio
Funder: U.S. Department of Energy Rapid Manufacturing Institute (award number DE-EE0007888) and by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Basic Energy Sciences

Berkeley Lab study reveals molecular structure of water at gold electrodes

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Berkeley Lab researchers have recorded the first observations of the molecular structure of liquid water at a gold electrode under different battery charging conditions.

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

SLAC steps up to the plate at Bay Area Science Festival

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

The Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory will once again participate as an exhibitor in Discovery Days at AT&T Park on Saturday, Nov. 1, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. The concluding highlight of the fourth annual 10-day Bay Area Science Festival -- which is free and open to the public -- will transform the home of the San Francisco Giants into a science wonderland with activities for kids ages 0 to 14.

New insights on carbonic acid in water

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study by Berkeley Lab researchers provides valuable new insight into aqueous carbonic acid with important implications for both geological and biological concerns.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Puzzling new behavior found in high-temperature superconductors

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Research by an international team led by SLAC and Stanford scientists has uncovered a new, unpredicted behavior in a copper oxide material that becomes superconducting -- conducting electricity without any loss -- at relatively high temperatures.