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Scientists turn X-ray laser into World's fastest water heater

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Scientists have used a powerful X-ray laser at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory to heat water from room temperature to 100,000 degrees Celsius in less than a tenth of a picosecond, or millionth of a millionth of a second.

SLAC will open one of three NIH National Service Centers for Cryo-Electron Microscopy

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

The National Institutes of Health announced today that it will establish a national service and training center for cryogenic electron microscopy research at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.

Planck collaboration wins 2018 Gruber Cosmology Prize

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

The Planck Team -- including researchers in Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's (Berkeley Lab's) Computational Research and Physics divisions--have been awarded the 2018 Gruber Cosmology Prize.

Profiling extreme beams: Scientists devise new diagnostic for particle accelerators

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The world's cutting-edge particle accelerators are pushing the extremes in high-brightness beams and ultrashort pulses to explore matter in new ways. To optimize their performance -- and to prepare for next-generation facilities that will push these extremes further -- scientists have devised a new tool that can measure how bright these beams are, even for pulses that last only quadrillionths or even quintillionths of a second.

Journal: Physical Review X

Tau-tolly microtubular!

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California, Berkeley have combined cutting-edge cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) with computational molecular modeling to produce a near atomic-resolution model of the interaction between microtubules -- crucial components of eukaryotic cell ultrastructure -- and microtubule-associated proteins called tau.

Journal: Science

SLAC's X-ray laser opens new view on proteins related to Alzheimer's disease

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

An international research team has come up with a new method with potential for revealing the structure of individual amyloid fibrils with powerful beams of X-ray laser light.

Construction begins on one of the world's most sensitive dark matter experiments

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Business Announcement

The U.S. Department of Energy has approved funding and start of construction for the SuperCDMS SNOLAB experiment, which will begin operations in the early 2020s to hunt for hypothetical dark matter particles called weakly interacting massive particles, or WIMPs. The experiment will be at least 50 times more sensitive than its predecessor, exploring WIMP properties that can't be probed by other experiments and giving researchers a powerful new tool to understand one of the biggest mysteries of modern physics.

Ultrafast atomic snapshots reveal energy flow in superconductor

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

A team including SLAC researchers has measured the intricate interactions between atomic nuclei and electrons that are key to understanding intriguing materials properties, such as high-temperature superconductivity.

ACM's Software System Award honors Project Jupyter team

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

The Project Jupyter team has been honored with an ACM Software System Award for developing a tool that has had a lasting influence on computing. Project Jupyter evolved from IPython, an effort pioneered by Fernando Pérez, a staff scientist in Berkeley Lab's CRD.

Scientists find a new way to make novel materials by 'un-squeezing'

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Researchers at the Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have found a way to create the equivalent of negative pressure by mixing two materials together under just the right conditions to make an alloy with an airier and entirely different crystal structure and unique properties.

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