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1-Oct-2001
Tiny particles cause big stir
DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Emitted as the result of thermonuclear reactions in the core
of the sun and supernovae, the ghostlike elementary
particles called "neutrinos" usually travel unnoticed through
space, in immense numbers and across vast distances.
However, the discovery that these erstwhile phantoms have
mass and are polymorphous generated substantial notice
from the media on Earth.
1-Oct-2001
Travels of a young physicist
DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
A young physicist recounts his career from the University of
California at Berkeley and the laboratories of
Alexander Pines, famed pioneer in nuclear
magnetic resonance (NMR) to the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, Italy.
26-Sep-2001
Search of galactic halo yields a treasure trove of variable stars
DOE/Lawrence Livermore National LaboratoryPeer-Reviewed Publication
A project supported by the United States Department of Energy (DOE) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) to determine the nature of dark matter in the halo of the Milky Way has yielded a treasure trove of data on 73 million stars, many of them variable.
24-Sep-2001
LLNL and US Army Space and Missile Defense Command to unveil Solid State Heat Capacity Laser
DOE/Lawrence Livermore National LaboratoryPeer-Reviewed Publication
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, in conjunction with The High Energy Laser Systems Test Facility (HELSTF), a subordinate element of the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command (SMDC), will unveil its new Solid State Heat Capacity Laser (SSHCL) during a ribbon cutting ceremony.
27-Aug-2001
New breast cancer gene found
DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
To the small list of genes that play a role in the development of breast cancer can now be added the name ZNF217. Multiple copies of this gene were found to remove natural restrictions on cell growth and thereby increase the chances for malignancy in a study jointly conducted by researchers with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF).
20-Aug-2001
Astrophysicsts receive $2 million from Department of Energy to explore supernovae
DOE/Lawrence Livermore National LaboratoryGrant and Award Announcement
Scientists from Lawrence Livermore and Los Alamos national laboratories, the University of California Santa Cruz and the University of Arizona have received a $2 million, three-year grant from the Department of Energy to research supernovae, the cataclysmic deaths of stars.
- Funder
- Department of Energy
17-Aug-2001
Dr. Edward Teller honored with revived Hungarian Corvin Medal
DOE/Lawrence Livermore National LaboratoryGrant and Award Announcement
Dr. Edward Teller, the world-famous physicist best known for his work in atomic and nuclear physics, was honored this week with the Hungarian Corvin Medal, bestowed by the Hungarian government for exceptional achievement in the arts and sciences.
15-Aug-2001
Berkeley lab receives funding to develop new computational tools for advancing scientific research
DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National LaboratoryGrant and Award Announcement
Scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory will help lead the development of a new generation of tools and technologies for scientific computing under a new $57 million program announced by the Department of Energy. Under the program, called Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing, Berkeley Lab scientists will lead six of the projects and are key partners in another six projects.
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- DOE/US Department of Energy
13-Aug-2001
Physicists challenge reports of accelerated decay of nuclear excited state
DOE/Lawrence Livermore National LaboratoryPeer-Reviewed Publication
Physicists from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, in collaboration with scientists at Los Alamos and Argonne national laboratories, have new results that strongly contradict recent reports claiming an accelerated emission of gamma rays from the nuclear isomer 31-yr. hafnium-178, and the opportunity for a controlled release of energy. The triggering source in the original experiment was a dental X-ray machine.