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Obama picks Berkeley Lab Director Steve Chu for Energy Secretary

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Business Announcement

President-elect Barack Obama has nominated Steve Chu, director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, to be secretary of energy.

DOE Joint Genome Institute completes soybean genome

DOE/Joint Genome Institute
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute has released a complete draft assembly of the soybean genetic code, making it widely available to the research community to advance new breeding strategies for one of the world's most valuable plant commodities. Soybean not only accounts for 70 percent of the world's edible protein, but also is an emerging feedstock for biodiesel production and is the leading US agricultural export.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, North Central Soybean Research Program, United Soybean Board, National Science Foundation, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, US Department of Agriculture
Meeting: International Conference on Legume Genomics and Genetics

Scientists create tough ceramic that mimics mother of pearl

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Biomimicry -- technological innovation inspired by nature -- is one of the hottest ideas in science but has yet to yield many practical advances. Time for a change. Scientists with the US Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have mimicked the structure of mother of pearl to create what may well be the toughest ceramic ever produced.

Journal: Science
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Cellular senescence a double-edged sword

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists have shown that cellular senescence, the process by which biological cells stop dividing in response to stress or damage to their DNA, triggers the secretion of proteins that cause inflammation in neighboring cells and tissue. Inflammation is linked to almost every major disease associated with aging, including many cancers.

Journal: Publication Library and Information Science
Funder: National Institutes of Health

Livermore Lab and American Shale Oil team to study carbon sequestration

DOE/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Business Announcement

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and American Shale Oil, LLC, a subsidiary of IDT Corporation, announced today that they have entered into a technical cooperation agreement to develop carbon sequestration technologies for in ground shale oil production processes.

Mother of pearl secret revealed

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Advanced Light Source scientists Andreas Scholl and Nobumichi Tamura were part of a team that used beams from the PEEM-3 and x-ray diffraction microscopes to reveal new secrets behind the mysterious formation of mother of pearl, or nacre, the inner lining of the shells of abalone and certain other mollusks.

Berkeley Lab team wins special ACM Gordon Bell Prize for algorithm innovation

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Berkeley Lab researchers have won a prestigious ACM Gordon Bell Prize for special achievement in high performance computing for their research into the energy harnessing potential of nanostructures.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

LLNL teams with computing industry leaders to develop an advanced technology cluster testbed

DOE/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Business Announcement

The National Nuclear Security Administration's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has teamed with 10 computing industry leaders to accelerate the development of powerful next-generation Linux clusters in a project dubbed Hyperion.

Billions of particles of anti-matter created in laboratory

DOE/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Take a gold sample the size of the head of a push pin, shoot a laser through it, and suddenly more than 100 billion particles of anti-matter appear. The anti-matter, also known as positrons, shoots out of the target in a cone-shaped plasma "jet."

Astronomers capture first images of newly discovered solar system

DOE/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Astronomers for the first time have taken snapshots of a multi-planet solar system, much like ours, orbiting another star.

Journal: Science