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22-Mar-2018

Hidden medical text read for the first time in a thousand years

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

An international team of researchers is getting a clear look at the hidden text of the Syriac Galen Palimpsest with an X-ray study at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL) at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.

22-Mar-2018

Plants really do feed their friends

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and UC Berkeley have discovered that as plants develop they craft their root microbiome, favoring microbes that consume very specific metabolites. Their study could help scientists identify ways to enhance the soil microbiome for improved carbon storage and plant productivity.

Journal: Nature Microbiology
Funder: Department of Energy

21-Mar-2018

COSMIC impact: Next-gen X-ray microscopy platform now operational

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

COSMIC, a next-generation X-ray beamline now operating at Berkeley Lab, brings together a unique set of capabilities to measure the properties of materials at the nanoscale. It allows scientists to probe working batteries and other active chemical reactions, and to reveal new details about magnetism and correlated electronic materials.

Journal: Nature Communications

21-Mar-2018

Understanding effects of climate change on California watersheds

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

California relies on the Sierra Nevada snowpack for a significant portion of its water needs, yet scientists understand very little about how future changes in snowpack volume and timing will influence surface water and groundwater. Now researchers at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) are developing an advanced hydrologic model to study how climate change might affect California watersheds.

20-Mar-2018

Weird superconductor leads double life

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Understanding strontium titanate's odd behavior will aid efforts to develop materials that conduct electricity with 100 percent efficiency at higher temperatures.

20-Mar-2018

Beyond the WIMP: Unique crystals could expand the search for dark matter

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new particle detector design proposed at the US Department of Energy's Berkeley Lab could greatly broaden the search for dark matter -- which makes up 85 percent of the total mass of the universe yet we don't know what it's made of -- into an unexplored realm.

Journal: Journal of Applied Physics

19-Mar-2018

Study reveals new insights into how hybrid perovskite solar cells work

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Scientists have gained new insights into a fundamental mystery about hybrid perovskites, low-cost materials that could enhance or even replace conventional solar cells made of silicon.

19-Mar-2018

A reference catalog for the rumen microbiome

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In Nature Biotechnology, an international team including scientists at the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, present a reference catalog of rumen microbial genomes and isolates cultivated and sequenced from the Hungate1000 collection. One of the largest targeted cultivation and sequencing projects to date, the collection was produced through the coordinated efforts of rumen microbiology researchers worldwide.

Journal: Nature Biotechnology
Funder: US Department of Energy's Office of Science

15-Mar-2018

Diamonds from the deep: Study suggests water may exist in Earth's lower mantle

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study, which included experiments at Berkeley Lab, suggests that water may be more common than expected at extreme depths approaching 400 miles and possibly beyond -- within Earth's lower mantle. The study explored microscopic pockets of a trapped form of crystallized water molecules in a sampling of diamonds.

Journal: Science

14-Mar-2018

Q&A: Al Ashley reflects on his efforts to diversify SLAC and beyond

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

An award-winning mentor and networking guru, Al Ashley has placed thousands of underrepresented minority students in science and engineering summer research programs.