Sentences with phrase «berkeley lab found»

The 2010 studies from Berkeley Lab found that residual nicotine can react with ozone and nitrous acid — both common indoor air pollutants — to form hazardous agents.

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«We suspected that the young are most vulnerable because of their immature immune systems, but we didn't have a lot of hard evidence to show that before,» said study lead author Bo Hang, a Berkeley Lab staff scientist who previously found that thirdhand smoke could lead to genetic mutations in human cells.

After running a number of computationally intensive simulations of supernova light at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), a Department of Energy Office of Science User Facility located at Berkeley Lab, Goldstein and Nugent suspect that they'll be able to find about 1,000 of these strongly lensed Type Ia supernovae in data collected by the upcoming Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST)-- about 20 times more than previous expectations.

Berkeley Lab scientist Evan Mills found that gaming computers offer a potential estimated savings of $ 18 billion per year globally by 2020.

«This was a totally unexpected finding,» said study principal investigator Junqiao Wu, a physicist at Berkeley Lab's Materials Sciences Division and a UC Berkeley professor of materials science and engineering.

«This finding could change the way we look at phase transformations within the cathode and the resulting loss of capacity in this class of material,» said Alpesh Khushalchand Shukla, a scientist at Berkeley Lab's Molecular Foundry, and lead author of the study.

«We found that the majority of students were being jet - lagged by their class times, which correlated very strongly with decreased academic performance,» said study co-lead author Benjamin Smarr, a postdoctoral fellow who studies circadian rhythm disruptions in the lab of UC Berkeley psychology professor Lance Kriegsfeld.

Now a new study by the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has found that cool roofs can also save water by reducing how much is needed for urban irrigation.

Seitz seized an opportunity to work with microbiologist Jill Banfield of the University of California, Berkeley, for several months, and Rambo intends to rotate through several labs if he can't find space in the lab of a Harvard University researcher.

Danylo Zherebetskyy and his colleagues at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) found unexpected traces of water in semiconducting nanocrystals.

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.

While hydropower and fossil fuel power plants are favored approaches in some quarters, a new assessment by the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has found that wind and solar can be economically and environmentally competitive options and can contribute significantly to the rising demand.

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), who have made important findings on the dangers of thirdhand smoke and how it adsorbs strongly onto indoor surfaces, have published a new study assessing the health effects of thirdhand smoke constituents present in indoor air.

The Berkeley Lab team has done previous studies establishing the formation of harmful thirdhand smoke constituents by reaction of nicotine with indoor nitrous acid, showing that nicotine can react with ozone to form potentially harmful ultrafine particles, and finding that thirdhand smoke can cause genetic damage in human cells.

We found that cancer susceptibility is related to the complex interplay between exposure to low - dose radiation, an individual mouse's genes, and their tumor microenvironment,» says Jian - Hua Mao of Berkeley Lab's Life Sciences Division.

Berkeley Lab researchers found that the sticky residue left behind by tobacco smoke led to changes in weight and blood cell count in mice.

The company was founded by pioneers of CRISPR biology based on research carried out in the Doudna Lab at the University of California, Berkeley.

«We first found that mutants deficient in the lipocalin protein no longer performed this type of dissipation,» said study lead author Alizée Malnoë, a postdoctoral researcher at Berkeley Lab.

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) is JBEI's lead institution and a founding partner of the DOE Joint Genome Institute.

Berkeley Lab scientists studied mice and found their risk of mammary cancer from low - dose radiation depends a great deal on their genetic makeup.

«Working with our collaborators over the years, Berkeley Lab has made many important findings on thirdhand smoke, and now we're excited to use new approaches to better quantify its harm to human health.»

Since then, TRDRP has funded further studies, including one in 2013 led by Berkeley Lab biochemist Bo Hang that found that thirdhand smoke can cause significant genetic damage in human cells.

In 2016, another Berkeley Lab group found a potential new biomarker for early stages of tumor development in a wide variety of cancers.

The full set of reports, including two others involving Berkeley Lab, can be found here.

And we found the rate of permafrost thaw and its effect on the decomposition of deep carbon will have a much bigger impact on the carbon cycle than the availability of deep nitrogen and its ability to spark plant growth,» says Charles Koven of Berkeley Lab's Earth Sciences Division.

Substantial research over the years from Berkeley Lab's Heat Island Group has found that reflective roofs and walls can cool buildings and cars.

In a new study of Guangzhou, China, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) researchers working with Chinese scientists found that during a heat wave, the effect is significantly more pronounced.

To find the right balance of moisture and temperature in a specialized type of hydrogen fuel cell, Berkeley Lab scientists have used X-rays to explore the inner workings of its components at tiny scales.

He founded the Center for Building Science at Berkeley Lab in 1975, where a broad range of energy efficiency standards and technologies were developed over the next 20 years.

Looking strictly at the economic costs and benefits of three different roof types — black, white and «green» (or vegetated)-- Berkeley Lab researchers have found in a new study that white roofs are the most cost - effective over a 50 - year time span.

The Berkeley Lab study found that global land surface temperature decreased by a modest amount — an average of roughly 0.01 degrees Celsius, based on an albedo increase of.003 averaged over all global land surfaces.

Berkeley Lab researchers Dev Millstein and Surabi Menon found that atmospheric feedback — such as changes in cloud cover or precipitation — does have an important effect, resulting in different amounts of cooling in different cities, but that cool roofs and pavements are still beneficial for combating global warming.

In a new study of Guangzhou, China, Berkeley Lab researchers working with Chinese scientists found that during a heat wave, the effect is significantly more pronounced.

Founded in 1931, Berkeley Lab's scientific expertise has been recognized with 13 Nobel prizes.