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SLAC expands and centralizes computing infrastructure to prepare for data challenges of the future

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

A computing facility at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory is doubling in size, preparing the lab for new scientific endeavors that promise to revolutionize our understanding of the world from atomic to cosmic scales but also require handling unprecedented data streams.

Funder: Office of Science

A new leap in understanding nickel oxide superconductors

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Unconventional superconductors contain a mix of weird quantum states. SLAC and Stanford researchers found one of them – frozen electron ripples known as charge density waves – in a nickelate superconductor they discovered three years ago.

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

Designer materials to keep plastic out of landfills

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists have designed a new material system that will help enable a much broader range of fully recyclable plastic products. Their achievement brings into reach an efficient circular economy for durable goods like automobiles.

Journal: Science Advances

Machine learning paves way for smarter particle accelerators

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Scientists have developed a new machine-learning platform that makes the algorithms that control particle beams and lasers smarter than ever before. Their work could help lead to the development of new and improved particle accelerators that will help scientists unlock the secrets of the subatomic world.

X-rays help researchers piece together treasured cellular gateway for first time

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

After almost two decades of synchrotron experiments, Caltech scientists have captured a clear picture of a cell’s nuclear pores, which are the doors and windows through which critical material in your body flows in and out of the cell’s nucleus. These findings could lead to new treatments of certain cancers, autoimmune diseases and heart conditions.

Journal: Science

Neuroscience simulations shed light on origins of human brain recordings

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Using simulations run at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, a team of researchers has found the origin of cortical surface electrical signals in the brain and discovered why the signals originate where they do.

Berkeley Lab researchers record successful startup of LUX-ZEPLIN dark matter detector at Sanford Underground Research Facility

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Deep below the Black Hills of South Dakota in the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF), an innovative and uniquely sensitive dark matter detector - the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment, led by Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (Berkeley Lab) - has passed a check-out phase of startup operations and delivered first results.

Bacteria for blastoff: Using microbes to make supercharged new rocket fuel

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Biofuel scientists used an oddball molecule made by bacteria to develop a new class of sustainable biofuels powerful enough to launch rockets. The candidate molecules have greater projected energy density than any petroleum product, including the leading aviation and rocket fuels, JetA and RP-1.

Journal: Joule

Giant bacteria found in Guadeloupe mangroves challenge traditional concepts

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at the DOE Joint Genome Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), the Laboratory for Research in Complex Systems (LRC) and at the Université des Antilles describe the morphological and genomic features of a “’macro’ microbe” – a giant filamentous bacterium composed of a single cell discovered in the mangroves of Guadeloupe. Using various microscopy techniques, the team also observed novel, membrane-bound compartments that contain DNA clusters dubbed “pepins.”

Journal: Science
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, John Templeton Foundation, Region Guadeloupe, F.W.I., DARPA

New ultrathin capacitor could enable energy-efficient microchips

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists at Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley have developed a thin film from a century-old material for next-gen memory and logic devices. The breakthrough advances the pursuit of low-voltage electronics that require less energy to operate than today’s silicon-based electronics.

Journal: Nature Materials

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