News By Location

6-Jun-2018

'Super window' could save $10 billion annually in energy costs

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Business Announcement

About $20 billion worth of energy leaks out of windows in the United States each winter -- and that's with double-paned insulating windows installed on a majority of buildings. The Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) is now working with manufacturers to bring to market a 'super window' that is at least twice as insulating as 99 percent of the windows for sale today and will be ready to achieve mass-market status.

Funder

DOE/US Department of Energy

4-Jun-2018

New algorithm enhances ptychographic image reconstruction

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers from Berkeley Lab's Computational Research Division, the University of Texas at Dallas and Tianjin Normal University have developed an algorithmic model that enhances the image reconstruction capabilities of an algorithmic framework and computer software used to reconstruct millions of phases of ptychographic image data per second.

Journal

Acta Crystallographica Section A

4-Jun-2018

Berkeley Lab paves the way for real-time ptychographic data streaming

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Business Announcement

What began nearly a decade ago as a Berkeley Lab Laboratory-Directed Research and Development (LDRD) proposal is now a reality, and it is already changing the way scientists run experiments at the Advanced Light Source -- and, eventually, other light sources across the US Department of Energy complex--by enabling real-time streaming of ptychographic image data in a production environment.

1-Jun-2018

New machine learning approach could accelerate bioengineering

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists from the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have developed a way to use machine learning to dramatically accelerate the design of microbes that produce biofuel.

Journal

npj Systems Biology and Applications

31-May-2018

X-ray laser scientists develop a new way to watch bacteria attack antibiotics

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

An international team of researchers has found a new way to investigate how tuberculosis bacteria inactivate an important family of antibiotics: They watched the process in action for the first time using an X-ray free-electron laser, or XFEL.

30-May-2018

Supercomputers provide new window into the life and death of a neutron

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A team has enlisted powerful supercomputers to calculate a quantity, known as the 'nucleon axial coupling' or gA, that is central to our understanding of a neutron's lifetime.

Journal

Nature

28-May-2018

Graphene layered with magnetic materials could drive ultrathin spintronics

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers working at Berkeley Lab coupled graphene, a monolayer form of carbon, with thin layers of magnetic materials like cobalt and nickel to produce exotic behavior in electrons that could be useful for next-generation computing applications.

Journal

Nature Materials

18-May-2018

Diamond 'spin-off' tech could lead to low-cost medical imaging and drug discovery tools

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

An international team has discovered how to exploit defects in nanoscale and microscale diamonds and potentially enhance the sensitivity of magnetic resonance imaging and nuclear magnetic resonance systems while eliminating the need for their costly and bulky superconducting magnets.

Journal

Science Advances

16-May-2018

X-ray laser reveals ultrafast dance of liquid water

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Researchers have probed the movements of molecules in liquid water that occur in less than 100 millionths of a billionth of a second, or femtoseconds.

16-May-2018

Exploration of diverse bacteria signals big advance for gene function prediction

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, including researchers at the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, have developed a workflow that enables large-scale, genome-wide assays of gene importance across many conditions. The study, 'Mutant Phenotypes for Thousands of Bacterial Genes of Unknown Function,' has been published in the journal Nature and is by far the largest functional genomics study of bacteria ever published.

Journal

Nature

Funder

DOE/US Department of Energy