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Researchers gear up galaxy-seeking robots for a test run

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Business Announcement

A prototype system that will test a planned array of 5,000 robots for a sky-mapping instrument is taking shape at Berkeley Lab. Dubbed ProtoDESI, the scaled-down, 10-robot system will run through a series of tests on a telescope in Arizona from August-September.

New mathematics accurately captures liquids and surfaces moving in synergy

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new mathematical framework developed at Berkeley Lab, published in the June 10, 2016 issue of Science Advances, allows researchers to capture fluid dynamics coupled to interface motion at unprecedented detail. The framework, called 'interfacial gauge methods', developed by Robert Saye, a Luis W. Alvarez Fellow in the Mathematics Group at Berkeley Lab, rewrites the equations governing incompressible fluid flow in a way that is more amenable to accurate computer modeling.

Journal: Science Advances
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, Berkeley Lab's Laboratory Directed Research and Development Program

Massive trove of battery and molecule data released to public

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The Materials Project, a Google-like database of material properties aimed at accelerating innovation, has released an enormous trove of data to the public, giving scientists working on batteries, fuel cells, photovoltaics, thermoelectrics, and a host of other advanced materials a powerful tool to explore new research avenues.

Journal: Energy & Environmental Science
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Names recommended for elements 115, 117 and 118

DOE/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) opened a public comment period Wednesday for the recommended names of elements 115, 117 and 118.

Chemical 'sponges' designed to soak up toxic cancer-fighting drugs after targeting tumors

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers are creating materials for a cancer treatment system that can limit the side effects of chemotherapy drugs by quickly removing them from the body after use.

Journal: Journal of Medical Devices

Echo Technique Developed at SLAC Could Make X-ray Lasers More Stable

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Researchers from the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China have developed a method that could open up new scientific avenues by making the light from powerful X-ray lasers much more stable and its color more pure.

Scientists Use a Frozen Gas to Boost Laser Light to New Extremes

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Researchers at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University and Louisiana State University have achieved an even more dramatic HHG shift by shining an infrared laser through argon gas that's been frozen into a thin, fragile solid whose atoms barely cling to each other.

Copper is key in burning fat

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study led by a Berkeley Lab scientist and UC Berkeley professor establishes for the first time copper's role in fat metabolism, further burnishing the metal's reputation as an essential nutrient for human physiology.

Journal: Nature Chemical Biology
Funder: National Institutes of Health

A plasma tube to bring particles up to speed at SLAC

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

A team led by scientists from the University of California, Los Angeles and the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory has reached another milestone in developing a promising technology for accelerating particles to high energies in short distances: They created a tiny tube of hot, ionized gas, or plasma, in which the particles remain tightly focused as they fly through it.

Prototype of LUX-ZEPLIN dark matter detector tested at SLAC

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Prototyping of a new, ultrasensitive 'eye' for dark matter is making rapid progress at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory: Researchers and engineers have installed a small-scale version of the future LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) detector to test, develop and troubleshoot various aspects of its technology.