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Berkeley Lab's John Shalf ponders the future of HPC Architectures

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

As he prepared to head to ISC19 to give a keynote address on the future of high performance computing beyond Moore's Law, John Shalf -- who leads the Computer Science Department in Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Computational Research Division -- shared his thoughts on what computing technologies and architectures may look like in the post-exascale era.

Scientists hit pay dirt with new microbial research technique

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Long ago, during the European Renaissance, Leonardo da Vinci wrote that we humans 'know more about the movement of celestial bodies than about the soil underfoot.' Five hundred years and innumerable technological and scientific advances later, his sentiment still holds true. But that could soon change. A new study in Nature Communications details how an improved method for studying microbes in the soil will help scientists understand both fine-grained details and large-scale cycles of the environment.

Journal: Nature Communications

Scientists make first high-res movies of proteins forming crystals in a living cell

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Scientists have made the first observations of proteins assembling themselves into crystals, one molecule at a time, in a living cell. The method they used to watch this happen -- an extremely high-res form of molecular moviemaking -- could shed light on other important biological processes and help develop nanoscale technologies inspired by nature.

Blue pigment from engineered fungi could help turn the textile industry green

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new biosynthetic production pathway developed by scientists at the Joint BioEnergy Institute could provide a sustainable alternative to conventional synthetic blue dye. The highly efficient fungi-based platform may also open the door for producing many other valuable biological compounds that are currently very hard to manufacture.

Journal: Green Chemistry

SLAC sends off woven grids for LUX-ZEPLIN dark matter detector

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Over the past few months, the LZ team at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, which is part of the international LZ collaboration of 250 scientists from 37 institutions, has carefully woven the grids from 2 miles of thin stainless steel wire, and yesterday they sent the last one on its way to the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) in South Dakota, where the LZ detector is being assembled.

A miniature camera for the LSST will help test the observatory and take first images

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Scientists at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory are building the world's largest digital camera for astronomy and astrophysics - a minivan-sized 3,200-megapixel 'eye' of the future Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST). In the meantime, the lab has completed its work on a miniature version that will soon be used for testing the telescope and taking LSST's first images of the night sky.

Mineral discovery made easier: X-ray technique shines a new light on tiny, rare crystals

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Business Announcement

Like a tiny needle in a sprawling hayfield, a single crystal grain measuring just tens of millionths of a meter had an unexpected chemical makeup. And a specialized X-ray technique in use at Berkeley Lab confirmed the sample's uniqueness and paved the way for its formal recognition as a newly discovered mineral: ognitite.

Journal: European Journal of Mineralogy

A day in the life of an accelerator designer

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Physicist Tor Raubenheimer explores the world by climbing rocks and designing particle accelerators.

A quick liquid flip helps explain how morphing materials store information

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Experiments at SLAC's X-ray laser reveal in atomic detail how two distinct liquid phases in these materials enable fast switching between glassy and crystalline states that represent 0s and 1s in memory devices.

Science snapshots: New nitrides, artificial photosynthesis, and TMDC semiconductors

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

From Berkeley Lab: groundbreaking study maps out paths to new nitride materials; new framework for artificial photosynthesis; TMDCs don't have to be perfect to shine bright.

Journal: Nature Materials

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