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Researchers create molecular movie of virus preparing to infect healthy cells

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

A research team has created for the first time a movie with nanoscale resolution of the three-dimensional changes a virus undergoes as it prepares to infect a healthy cell. The scientists analyzed thousands of individual snapshots from intense X-ray flashes, capturing the process in an experiment at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.

Newly upgraded laser allows scientists to peer further into the extreme universe at SLAC's LCLs

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Scientists at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory recently upgraded a powerful optical laser system used to create shockwaves that generate high-pressure conditions like those found within planetary interiors. The laser system now delivers three times more energy for experiments with SLAC's ultrabright X-ray laser, providing a more powerful tool for probing extreme states of matter in our universe.

Video: Dark matter hunt with LUX-Zeplin

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

SLAC is helping to build and test one of the biggest and most sensitive detectors ever designed to catch a WIMP -- the LUX-ZEPLIN or LZ detector.

New 3-D simulations show how galactic centers cool their jets

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists at Berkeley Lab and Purdue University developed new theories and 3-D simulations to explain what's at work in the mysterious jets of energy and matter beaming from the center of galaxies at nearly the speed of light.

Journal: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Three SLAC scientists receive DOE Early Career research grants

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Three scientists at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory will receive DOE Early Career Research Program grants for research to find evidence of cosmic inflation, understand how plasmas excite particles to high energies and develop a way to accelerate particles in much shorter distances with terahertz radiation.

Exposure to antimicrobials during development may cause irreversible outcomes

DOE/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientists have discovered that exposure to environmental levels of triclocarban (TCC), an antibacterial chemical common in personal care products like soaps and lotions as well as in the medical field, can transfer from mother to offspring and interfere with lipid metabolism.

Journal: PLOS One

Defining standards for genomes from uncultivated microorganisms

DOE/Joint Genome Institute
Peer-Reviewed Publication

As genomic data production has ramped up over the past two decades and is being generated on various platforms around the world, scientists have worked together to establish definitions for terms and data collection standards that apply across the board. In Nature Biotechnology, an international team led by DOE JGI researchers has developed standards for the minimum metadata to be supplied with single amplified genomes and metagenome-assembled genomes submitted to public databases.

Journal: Nature Biotechnology
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Annual wind report confirms tech advancements, improved performance, low wind prices

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Wind energy pricing for land-based, utility-scale projects remains attractive to utility and commercial purchasers, according to an annual report released by the US Department of Energy and prepared by Berkeley Lab. Prices offered by newly built wind projects in the United States are averaging around 2¢/kWh, driven lower by technology advancements and cost reductions.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Scientists probe the conditions of stellar interiors to measure nuclear reactions

DOE/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Most of the nuclear reactions that drive the nucleosynthesis of the elements in our universe occur in very extreme stellar plasma conditions. This intense environment found in the deep interiors of stars has made it nearly impossible for scientists to perform nuclear measurements in these conditions -- until now.

Journal: Nature Physics

Franklin Fuller and Cornelius Gati named 2017 Panofsky Fellows at SLAC

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Franklin Fuller and Cornelius Gati have been awarded 2017 Panofsky Fellowships by the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, where they will work over the next five years to get significantly more information about how catalysts work and develop new and improved biological imaging methods.

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