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Neuroscience simulations shed light on origins of human brain recordings

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Using simulations run at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, a team of researchers has found the origin of cortical surface electrical signals in the brain and discovered why the signals originate where they do.

Berkeley Lab researchers record successful startup of LUX-ZEPLIN dark matter detector at Sanford Underground Research Facility

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Deep below the Black Hills of South Dakota in the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF), an innovative and uniquely sensitive dark matter detector - the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment, led by Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (Berkeley Lab) - has passed a check-out phase of startup operations and delivered first results.

Pushing the boundaries of Moore’s law: How can extreme UV light produce tiny microchips?

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Some analysts say that the end of Moore’s Law is near, but Patrick Naulleau, the director of Berkeley Lab’s Center for X-Ray Optics (CXRO), says that it could be decades before the modern chip runs out of room for improvement, thanks to advances in materials and instrumentation enabled by the CXRO.

A laser-powered upgrade to cancer treatment

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Biologists and particle accelerator physicists have teamed up to develop more effective and more accessible cancer treatments using laser-powered plasma ion beams.

Journal: Scientific Reports

How x-rays can make better batteries

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In this Q&A, ALS senior staff scientist David Shapiro and Stanford materials science professor William Chueh share how their pioneering X-ray techniques can help researchers understand how battery materials work in real time at the atomic scale.

Safely studying dangerous infections just got a lot easier

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Soft X-ray tomography – a way to take gorgeously high-resolution, 3D images of cells – can help us study infections without risk of contamination. And now, the whole process takes just a fraction of the time and preparation required by other imaging methods.

Open sourced control hardware for quantum computers

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The team at the Advanced Quantum Testbed at Berkeley Lab has designed an electronics control system for superconducting qubits—QubiC for short—that is customizable and modular and is inspired by particle accelerator R&D at Berkeley Lab's ATAP division. QubiC's hardware and software have been open sourced so that the broader QIS community can contribute to it / improve it.

Journal: IEEE Transactions on Quantum Engineering
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

National labs support safe nuclear waste disposal by studying safety material for underground sites

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Geoscientists from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and two other U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) National Laboratories, Sandia and Los Alamos, are collaborating on the HotBENT project. This international field experiment is evaluating how well the natural, clay-based material (bentonite) placed around canisters of buried, high-level nuclear waste retains its safety functions when exposed to simulated long-term heating.

How can next-gen computer chips reduce our carbon footprint?

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Berkeley Lab scientists Maurice Garcia-Sciveres and Ramamoorthy Ramesh discuss how future microchips could perform better – and require less energy – than silicon. Over the next three years, they will lead two of the 10 projects recently awarded nearly $54 million by the Department of Energy to increase energy efficiency in microelectronics design and production.

Rising talent in quantum computing: Meet early career researchers at QSA

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The Quantum Systems Accelerator is opening exciting opportunities in quantum information science & technology for researchers. Meet QSA's early career researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder, a QSA partner institution, and JILA.

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