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One cool camera: LSST's cryostat assembly completed

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Work on the camera for the future Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) has reached a major milestone with the completion and delivery of the camera's fully integrated cryostat. With 3.2 gigapixels, the LSST camera will be the largest digital camera ever built for ground-based astronomy. It's being assembled at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.

Particle physicists team up with AI to solve toughest science problems

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

A group of researchers, including scientists at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, summarize current applications and future prospects of machine learning in particle physics in a paper published today in Nature.

New Competition for MOFs: Scientists make stronger COFs

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Hollow molecular structures known as COFs suffer from an inherent problem: It's difficult to keep a network of COFs connected in harsh chemical environments. Now, a team at the Berkeley Lab has used a chemical process discovered decades ago to make the linkages between COFs much more sturdy, and to give the COFs new characteristics that could expand their applications.

Journal: Nature Communications

Risa Wechsler named director of KIPAC

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Risa Wechsler has been appointed director of the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC), a joint institute of the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University. On Sept. 15, she'll take over from Tom Abel, whose five-year term at the helm of the institute is coming to an end.

Ming Yi wins Spicer Award for superconductor research at SLAC's X-ray synchrotron

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

In recognition of her foundational superconductor research, Ming Yi has been awarded the 2018 William E. and Diane M. Spicer Young Investigator Award, which is presented to a young scientist who has made significant contributions to the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL) and the light source community. SSRL is a DOE Office of Science user facility at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.

Emma McBride and Caterina Vernieri receive 2018 Panofsky Fellowships at SLAC

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Emma McBride and Caterina Vernieri are the recipients of this year's Panofsky Fellowships at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. McBride will develop techniques to study matter in extreme conditions like the ones inside planets and stars. Vernieri will continue her research on the Higgs boson and its interactions with other elementary particles, which could lead to the discovery of new phenomena on nature's most fundamental level.

Remembering Berkeley Lab's first electrical engineer: William R. 'Bill' Baker

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

William R. "Bill" Baker, who died May 4 at age 103, was a lifelong engineer with an unrelenting mind and boundless ingenuity. He was the first electrical engineer hired by Ernest Orlando Lawrence, the namesake of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Berkeley Lab-developed digital library is a game changer for environmental research

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Developed by Berkeley Lab researchers, ESS-DIVE is a new digital archive that serves as a repository for hundreds of US Department of Energy-funded research projects under the agency's Environmental System Science umbrella.

Splitting water: Nanoscale imaging yields key insights

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In the quest to realize artificial photosynthesis to convert sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide into fuel -- just as plants do -- researchers need to not only identify materials to efficiently perform photoelectrochemical water splitting, but also to understand why a certain material may or may not work. Now scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have pioneered a technique that uses nanoscale imaging to understand how local, nanoscale properties can affect a material's macroscopic performance.

Journal: Nature Communications

A supercool component for a next-generation dark matter experiment

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

A large titanium cryostat designed to keep its contents chilled to minus 148 degrees has completed its journey from Europe to South Dakota, where it will become part of a next-generation dark matter detector for the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment.

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