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Electric skyrmions charge ahead for next-generation data storage

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A team of researchers led by Berkeley Lab has observed chirality for the first time in polar skyrmions, in a material with reversible electrical properties -- a combination that could lead to more powerful data storage devices that continue to hold information, even after they've been turned off.

Journal: Nature

SLAC's high-speed 'electron camera' films molecular movie in HD

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

With an extremely fast 'electron camera' at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, researchers have made the first high-definition 'movie' of ring-shaped molecules breaking open in response to light. The results could further our understanding of similar reactions with vital roles in chemistry, such as the production of vitamin D in our bodies.

Journal: Nature Chemistry

VIDEO: The Making of the Largest 3D Map of the Universe

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

In this video, Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) project participants share their insight and excitement about the project and its potential for new and unexpected discoveries.

SLAC develops novel compact antenna for communicating where radios fail

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new type of pocket-sized antenna, developed at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, could enable mobile communication in situations where conventional radios don't work, such as under water, through the ground and over very long distances through air.

Journal: Nature Communications

Ice sheet modeling probes antarctic vulnerabilities

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

The biggest uncertainty in end-of-the-century sea level rise comes from the Antarctic Ice Sheet (AIS), the miles-thick, continent-sized polar ice mass that covers the South Pole. However, current earth system models struggle to account for events unfolding in the Antarctic region -- the coupling between the evolving earth system and the ice sheet is complex and difficult to fully implement in models.

10 ways SLAC's X-ray laser has transformed science

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

When scientists at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory took on the task of building the world's very first X-ray laser capable of imaging matter at the atomic scale, they knew they were in for an uphill battle. The Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) was designed to generate X-ray pulses a billion times brighter than anything that had come before.

Climate scientists partner with San Francisco to be ready for future storms

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Business Announcement

The City and County of San Francisco is partnering with experts from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and Silvestrum Climate Associates to assess how climate change may influence the intensity of atmospheric rivers and associated precipitation, and how those changes may impact San Francisco and its infrastructure.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, City and County of San Francisco

David Reis named head of PULSE Institute for ultrafast science

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Long before David Reis joined the faculty of the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University, he was helping lay the groundwork for the lab's first-of-a-kind X-ray free-electron laser, or XFEL, and the revolutionary science that followed its opening in 2009.

Berkeley Lab Team Uses Deep Learning to Help Veterans Administration Address Suicide Risks

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Researchers in Berkeley Lab's Computational Research Division are applying deep learning and analytics to electronic health record (EHR) data to help the Veterans Administration address a host of medical and psychological challenges affecting many of the nation's 700,000 military veterans.

Ghostly X-ray images could provide key info for analyzing X-ray laser experiments

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

SLAC researchers say their new method could make it easier to study interactions of ultrabright X-rays with matter.

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