At 1:25 a.m. Pacific Time an international collaboration of scientists in Switzerland sent the first beam of protons zooming at nearly the speed of light around the world’s most powerful particle accelerator, CERN’s Large Hadron Collider. Berkeley Lab scientists and engineers were among the contributors to the giant machine.
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[9/9/08] Hailed as the world’s most powerful transmission electron microscope, TEAM 0.5 is living up to expectations. Berkeley Lab researchers have produced stunning images of individual carbon atoms in graphene, the two-dimensional crystalline form of carbon that is highly prized by the electronics industry.
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[9/5/08] Berkeley Lab chemical scientists working at the Advanced Light Source are part of a multinational team who have showed that, bad as the traffic is, the most harmful air pollution in Mexico City may not come from fossil fuels. Instead the culprit may be garbage incineration.
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[8/1/08] Scientists at the Advanced Light Source and Germany’s FLASH, using the ancient optical method of the pinhole camera, have made two of the brightest, sharpest x-ray holograms of microscopic objects ever.
More>Mark Levine heads Berkeley Lab’s China Energy Group, created in 1988 to further energy efficiency by working with Chinese organizations. In this interview Levine discusses his testimony before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission on China’s energy policies and their environmental impacts.
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[9/17/08] Abrupt climate change is the focus of IMPACTS, a major new program bringing together six DOE national laboratories to investigate the instability of marine ice sheets, warming of the boreal forests and Arctic, megadroughts in the Southwest, and catastrophic release of methane from hydrates.
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[9/15/08] One of the most crucial components of the new program of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and its 2.5 meter, wide-field telescope in New Mexico is a unique kind of dark-energy probe called BOSS, the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey, led by Berkeley Lab physicists.
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[9/12/08] Some meteorites and other objects from the early solar system have quite different ratios of oxygen isotopes than those found on Earth. Isotope self-shielding, however, a popular explanation for this difference, failed to explain isotope ratios in recent work at the Advanced Light Source.
More>It’s not just for big science anymore. NERSC Director Kathy Yelick discusses the future of parallel computing.
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