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How Brian Tierney’s “Aha Moment” Turned into a 28-year Career at Berkeley Lab

As he prepares to retire this month after more than 28 years at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Brian Tierney, head of ESnet’s Advanced Network Technologies Group, still remembers the exact moment when he knew where his career path would lead.

Brookhaven Lab's Scientific Data and Computing Center Reaches 100 Petabytes of Recorded Data

The storage system of the Scientific Data and Computing Center at Brookhaven National Laboratory is one of the largest in the world, containing 17 years of experimental physics data collected by thousands of scientists and engineers.

What’s On Your Skin? Archaea, That’s What

A study by the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the Medical University of Graz has found that the skin microbiome also contains archaea, a type of extreme-loving microbe, and that the amount of it varies with age.

Neutrons Run Enzyme’s Reactivity for Better Biofuel Production

Researchers from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and North Carolina State University used a combination of X-ray and neutron crystallography to determine the detailed atomic structure of a specialized fungal enzyme.

New Class of ‘Soft’ Semiconductors Could Transform HD Displays

A new type of semiconductor may be coming to a high-definition display near you. Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have shown that a class of semiconductor called halide perovskites is capable of emitting multiple, bright colors from a single nanowire at resolutions as small as 500 nanometers.

ALCC Program Awards ALCF Computing Time to 24 Projects

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) ASCR Leadership Computing Challenge (ALCC) has awarded 24 projects a total of 2.1 billion core-hours at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF). The one-year awards are set to begin July 1.

Ecological Roots

How the Department of Energy’s national laboratories helped found the study of ecology.

World’s Biggest Neutrino Experiment Moves One Step Closer

A prototype detector - a stepping-stone to the future Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment - has recorded its first particle tracks at CERN, an extremely precise method for measuring neutrinos.

2-D Material’s Traits Could Send Electronics R&D Spinning in New Directions

An international team of researchers, working at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and UC Berkeley, fabricated an atomically thin material and measured its exotic and durable properties that make it a promising candidate for a budding branch of electronics known as “spintronics.”

Ames Lab Scientists’ Surprising Discovery: Making Ferromagnets Stronger by Adding Non-Magnetic Element

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory discovered that they could functionalize magnetic materials through a thoroughly unlikely method, by adding amounts of the virtually non-magnetic element scandium to a gadolinium-germanium alloy.

Record-Setting Seismic Simulations Run on NERSC’s Cori System

Record-setting seismic simulations run earlier this year on the Cori supercomputer at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) were the subject of two presentations at the ISC High Performance conference in Frankfurt, Germany last week.

How a Single Chemical Bond Balances Cells Between Life and Death

With SLAC’s X-ray laser and synchrotron, scientists measured exactly how much energy goes into keeping this crucial bond from triggering a death spiral.