Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
U.S. Department of Energy national laboratories – including Berkeley Lab - collaborate to build the new magnets CERN needs to increase LHC luminosity by an order of magnitude.
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Berkeley Lab’s new extreme-ultraviolet microscope to help drive innovation in chip making.
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Berkeley Lab scientists create atomic-scale structure of ribosome attached to a molecule that controls its motion.
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A study led by researchers from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has found for the first time that thirdhand smoke—the noxious residue that clings to virtually all surfaces long after the secondhand smoke from a cigarette has cleared out—causes significant genetic damage in human cells.
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Berkeley Lab team reveals how desert cyanobacteria awaken to rainfall then resume their sleep.
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To accelerate such discovery, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) ESnet (Energy Sciences Network) is now operating the world’s fastest science network, serving the entire national laboratory system, its supercomputing centers, and its major scientific instruments at 100 gigabits per second – 10 times faster than its previous generation network.
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Berkeley Lab scientists and their Sloan Digital Sky Survey colleagues use quasars to probe dark energy over 10 billion years in the past.
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A fermentation technique once used to make cordite, the explosive propellant that replaced gunpowder in bullets and artillery shells, may find an important new use in the production of advanced biofuels.
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Initial results in mice could lead to new way to fight neurodegenerative diseases.
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Proteins are able to self-assemble into a wide range of highly ordered structures that feature a diverse array of properties. Through biomimicry – technological innovation inspired by nature – humans hope to emulate proteins and produce our own version of self-assembling molecules.
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