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Q&A: Berkeley Lab's Spencer Klein talks about IceCube then and now, and what's next

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

In this Q&A, Berkeley Lab physicist Spencer Klein, who has been a part of the IceCube collaboration since 2004, discusses Berkeley Lab's historic contributions to IceCube, and IceCube's contributions to science.

Berkeley lab team wins data-driven scavenger hunt for simulated nuclear materials

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Competing in a fictitious high-stakes scenario, a group of scientists at Berkeley Lab bested two dozen other teams in a months-long, data-driven scavenger hunt for simulated radioactive materials in a virtual urban environment.

SLAC's ultra-high-speed 'electron camera' catches molecules at a crossroads

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

An extremely fast 'electron camera' at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory has produced the most detailed atomic movie of the decisive point where molecules hit by light can either stay intact or break apart. The results could lead to a better understanding of how molecules respond to light in processes that are crucial for life, like photosynthesis and vision, or that are potentially harmful, such as DNA damage from ultraviolet light.

Journal: Science

X-ray experiment confirms theoretical model for making new materials

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Experiments at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have confirmed the predictive power of a new computational approach to materials synthesis. Researchers say that this approach, developed at the DOE's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, could streamline the creation of novel materials for solar cells, batteries and other sustainable technologies.

New simulations break down potential impact of a major quake by building location and size

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Business Announcement

A team from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, both US Department of Energy (DOE) national labs, is leveraging powerful supercomputers to portray the impact of high-frequency ground motion on thousands of representative different-sized buildings spread out across the California region.

Atomic movie of melting gold could help design materials for future fusion reactors

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have recorded the most detailed atomic movie of gold melting after being blasted by laser light. The insights they gained into how metals liquefy have potential to aid the development of fusion power reactors, steel processing plants, spacecraft and other applications where materials have to withstand extreme conditions for long periods of time.

Journal: Science

A next-gen EEG could help bring back lost brain function

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

A device under development at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University could help bring back lost brain function by measuring how the brain responds to therapies that stimulate it with electric current.

Reproducibility matters in large-scale maize study

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A plant's health is affected not only by conditions such as water and temperature, but by the microorganisms that live around its roots. This rhizosphere microbiome regulates nutrient availability to the plant from the soil and can impact plant growth and yields. An international team reported on the results of a large-scale field study that partially replicates earlier trials to identify soil microbes that colonize plants and which can be associated with particular traits.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Funder: US Department of Energy's Office of Science, NSF INSPIRE Program

Four SLAC scientists awarded prestigious DOE Early Career Research grants

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Four scientists at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory will receive Early Career Research Program awards for research that's developing new ways to study fundamental particles with machine learning and study nanoscale objects and quantum materials with powerful X-ray laser beams.

Berkeley Lab researchers use machine learning to search science data

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Business Announcement

Researchers at Berkeley Lab are currently developing a web-based search engine for scientific data, called Science Search. The team is also building innovative machine learning tools to pull contextual information from scientific datasets and automatically generate missing metadata tags for each raw and simulated data files. As a proof-of-concept, the team is working with staff at the Molecular Foundry, to demonstrate the concepts of Science Search on the images captured by the facility's instruments.

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