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Using fiber optics to advance safe and renewable energy

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Fiber optic cables, it turns out, can be incredibly useful scientific sensors. Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have studied them for use in carbon sequestration, groundwater mapping, earthquake detection, and monitoring of Arctic permafrost thaw. Now they have been awarded new grants to develop fiber optics for two novel uses: monitoring offshore wind operations and underground natural gas storage.

Funder: California Energy Commission

Looking Up From the Mountaintop: Q&A with a Telescope Instrument's Lead Observer

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

In this Q&A Satya Gontcho A Gontcho, a lead observer for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), shares her experiences at the DESI site near Tucson, Arizona, including evening observing stints to run through detailed checklists and probe how the instrument's components are working.

New technique looks for dark matter traces in dark places

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study by scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, UC Berkeley, and the University of Michigan -- published today in the journal Science - concludes that a possible dark matter-related explanation for a mysterious light signature in space is largely ruled out.

Journal: Science

SLAC researcher discovers giant cavity in key tuberculosis molecule

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The giant cavity, in a protein that transports nutrients across the cell membrane, is unlike anything researchers have seen before.

Journal: Nature
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, Swedish Research Council, Carl Tryggers' Foundation, SLAC, European Molecular Microbiology Organization

Science snapshots from Berkeley Lab

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A mosquito-killing toxin, fast-charging batteries, and artificial antibodies.

Journal: Nature Communications

Berkeley lab cosmologists are top contenders in machine learning challenge

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

In a machine learning challenge dubbed the 2020 Large Hadron Collider Olympics, a team of cosmologists from Berkeley Lab developed a code that best identified a mock signal hidden in simulated particle-collision data.

Meeting: MLS4Jets2020

Nature-inspired green energy technology clears important development hurdle

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new material design has put the long-sought idea of using artificial photosynthesis to generate renewable fuel within reach

Journal: Advanced Functional Materials

An advance in molecular moviemaking shows how molecules respond to two photons of light

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Some of the molecules' responses were surprising and others had been seen before with other techniques, but never in such detail or so directly, without relying on advance knowledge of what they should look like.

Journal: Physical Review X
Funder: US Department of Energy's Office of Science

How we choose: Applying 'decision science' to transportation behaviors

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Can scientists understand human behavior enough to figure out what drives the choices you make? In fact, it's called 'decision science,' and it's something that Anna Spurlock, a behavioral economist with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), specializes in.

A graphene innovation that is music to your ears

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Business Announcement

A California-based company called GraphAudio is moving toward commercializing graphene-based audio technology developed by researchers at Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley in an effort to stimulate an audio revolution.

Meeting: 2020 Consumer Electronics Show (CES)

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