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Students affected by Hurricane Maria bring their research to SLAC

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

This summer, five graduate students from the University of Puerto Rico had the opportunity to use SLAC's world-class facilities to keep their studies on track.

Mixed report card for low-cost indoor air quality home monitors

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Indoor air researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) recently tested seven consumer-grade air quality monitors to see if they could detect fine particles emitted by common household activities, including cooking, burning candles, and smoking. All of the monitors tested by researchers were found to have either underreported or missed the presence of very small particles that can penetrate deeply into the lungs.

Journal: Indoor Air
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, US Environmental Protection Agency

Ecosystems are getting greener in the Arctic

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers from Berkeley Lab have developed a new benchmark model that estimates changes in the proportion of the Earth's surface where plant growth will no longer be limited by cold temperatures over the 21st century.

Journal: Nature Climate Change

American Physical Society publishes 60th anniversary edition of the Review of Particle Physics

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

The latest edition of the Review of Particle Physics, a go-to resource for particle physicists published Aug. 17 in the American Physical Society's Physical Review D journal, marks the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Berkeley Lab-based Particle Data Group that produces the Review.

Light-emitting nanoparticles could provide a safer way to image living cells

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A research team has demonstrated how light-emitting nanoparticles, developed at Berkeley Lab, can be used to see deep in living tissue. Researchers hope they can be made to attach to specific components of cells to serve in an advanced imaging system that can pinpoint even single cancer cells.

Journal: Nature Communications

Algorithm provides early warning system for tracking groundwater contamination

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Savannah River National Laboratory have developed a low-cost method for real-time monitoring of pollutants using commonly available sensors.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Scientists squeeze nanocrystals in a liquid droplet into a solid-like state and back again

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A team led by scientists at Berkeley Lab found a way to make a liquid-like state behave more like a solid, and then to reverse the process.

Journal: Science Advances

46th annual SLAC Summer Institute celebrates Standard Model at 50

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

The event attracted 124 participants and explores the successes and challenges of the theory that describes subatomic particles and fundamental forces.

Catching the dance of antibiotics and ribosomes at room temperature

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Researchers at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have developed a new imaging technique to better understand the mechanisms that lead to hearing loss when aminoglycosides are introduced to the body. Using the lab's Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) X-ray laser and Stanford Synchrotron Lightsource (SSRL), SLAC researchers, in collaboration with researchers at Stanford University, were able to observe interactions between the drugs and bacterial ribosomes at both extremely low and room temperatures, revealing never-before-seen details.

In a first, scientists precisely measure how synthetic diamonds grow

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Scientists have now observed for the first time how diamonds grow from seed at an atomic level, and discovered just how big the seeds need to be to kick the crystal growing process into overdrive.

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