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Berkeley Lab research finds running may be better than walking for breast cancer survival

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Previous studies have shown that breast cancer survivors who meet the current exercise recommendations (2.5 hours of moderate intensity physical activity per week) are at 25 percent lower risk for dying from breast cancer. New research from Berkeley Lab, and reported in the International Journal of Cancer, suggests that exceeding the recommendations may provide greater protection, and that running may be better than walking.

Journal: International Journal of Cancer
Funder: Blood Systems Research Institute, Lung, NIH/National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health

Deployments of network monitoring software perfSONAR hit 1,000

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Finding the network bottlenecks that can slow the flow of science data sets and impede research can be extremely complex, especially as such data transfers cross a multitude of linked networks. But perfSONAR, a network monitoring software package developed jointly by DOE's Energy Sciences Network, national labs, universities and Internet 2, is making that task much easier. In January 2014, the number of perfSONAR instances installed in the US and 13 other countries reached 1,000.

Cooling microprocessors with carbon nanotubes

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Berkeley Lab researchers at the Molecular Foundry have developed a "process friendly" technique to enable the cooling of microprocessor chips through the use of carbon nanotubes.

Journal: Nature Communications
Funder: US Department of Energy's Office of Science, Intel Corporation

Lawrence Livermore 'space cops' to help control traffic in space

DOE/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A team of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientists are using mini-satellites that work as "space cops" to help control traffic in space.

White, green or black roofs? Berkeley Lab report compares economic payoffs

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Looking strictly at the economic costs and benefits of three different roof types -- black, white and "green" (or vegetated) -- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory researchers have found in a new study that white roofs are the most cost-effective over a 50-year time span. While the high installation cost of green roofs sets them back in economic terms, their environmental and amenity benefits may at least partially mitigate their financial burden.

Journal: Energy and Buildings

E-whiskers

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers with Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley have created e-whiskers -- highly sensitive tactile sensors made from carbon nanotubes and silver nanoparticles that should have a wide range of applications including advanced robotics, human-machine interfaces, and biological and environmental sensors.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Funder: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

Natural 3-D counterpart to graphene discovered

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A natural 3-D counterpart to 2-D graphene with similar or even better electron mobility and velocity has been discovered at Berkeley Lab's Advanced Light Source. This discovery promises exciting new things to come for the high-tech industry, including much faster transistors and far more compact hard drives.

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

Berkeley Lab-led project aims to produce liquid transportation fuel from methane

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Business Announcement

How's this for innovative: A Berkeley Lab-led team hopes to engineer a new enzyme that efficiently converts methane to liquid transportation fuel. "There's a lot of methane available, and we want to develop a new way to harness it as an energy source for vehicles," says Christer Jansson, a biochemist in Berkeley Lab's Earth Sciences Division who heads the effort.

A deeper look at interfaces

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A technique developed at Berkeley Lab's Advanced Light Source makes it possible for the first time to selectively study the electronic structure of buried interfaces in multilayer nanodevices. The technique is called Standing Wave Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy.

Journal: EPL (Europhysics Letters)
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

LLNL partnership with Calysta works to convert natural gas to liquid fuel

DOE/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Business Announcement

In an effort to put to good use natural gas (methane) that might otherwise become pollution, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is collaborating with start-up company Calysta Energy on a new technology to convert natural gas to liquid fuel.