Sentences with phrase «berkeley lab study»

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.

The mechanisms that separate mixtures of oil and water may also help the organization of a part of our DNA called heterochromatin, according to a new Berkeley Lab study.

The Berkeley Lab study, which used fruit fly and mouse cells, will be published alongside a companion paper in Nature led by UC San Francisco researchers, who showed that the human version of the HP1a protein has the same liquid droplet properties, suggesting that similar principles hold for human heterochromatin.

The Berkeley Lab study is the first of its kind for Africa, using multiple criteria - such as quality of the resource, distance from transmission lines and roads, co-location potential, availability of water resources, potential human impact, and many other factors - to characterize wind and solar resources.

As for how international policy should treat loss and damage, there was little in the way of extra clarity, says Dr Dáithí Stone, a scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley Lab studying the changing risk to human and natural systems.

Not exact matches

«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.

The following Berkeley Lab researchers also contributed to the study: Benjamin Bowen, a member of Northen's lab in EGSB and at the Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility, helped analyze metabolomics data; Ulas Karaoz in the Earth and Environmental Sciences Area (EESA) analyzed metagenomics data; and Joel Swenson, a former postdoctoral researcher in Biosciences» Biological Systems and Engineering Division, helped conduct correlation and statistical analysLab researchers also contributed to the study: Benjamin Bowen, a member of Northen's lab in EGSB and at the Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility, helped analyze metabolomics data; Ulas Karaoz in the Earth and Environmental Sciences Area (EESA) analyzed metagenomics data; and Joel Swenson, a former postdoctoral researcher in Biosciences» Biological Systems and Engineering Division, helped conduct correlation and statistical analyslab in EGSB and at the Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility, helped analyze metabolomics data; Ulas Karaoz in the Earth and Environmental Sciences Area (EESA) analyzed metagenomics data; and Joel Swenson, a former postdoctoral researcher in Biosciences» Biological Systems and Engineering Division, helped conduct correlation and statistical analyses.

This study gets us closer to understanding the complex food webs that are vital in nutrient dynamics and overall soil fertility,» said study first author Tami Swenson, a scientific engineering associate in Northen's group within the Berkeley Lab Biosciences Area's Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology (EGSB) Division.

«Our study shows how EB proteins can either facilitate microtubule assembly by binding to sub-units of the microtubule, essentially holding them together, or else cause a microtubule to disassemble by promoting GTP hydrolysis that destabilizes the microtubule lattice,» says Eva Nogales, a biophysicist with Berkeley Lab's Life Sciences Division who led this research.

«This is an exciting discovery,» said study principal investigator Xiang Zhang, senior faculty scientist at Berkeley Lab's Materials Sciences Division and UC Berkeley professor.

«We've made the largest map for studying the 95 % of the universe that is dark,» noted David Schlegel, an astrophysicist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and principal investigator for BOSS.

«This material could be used to help stabilize temperature,» said study co-lead author Fan Yang, a postdoctoral researcher at Berkeley Lab's Molecular Foundry, a DOE Office of Science User Facility where some of the research was done.

«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.

According to a new study led by scientists at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and at the University of California, Berkeley, electrons in vanadium dioxide can conduct electricity without conducting heat.

The study was performed mainly at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California, and was led by postdoctoral researcher Junfeng He and graduate student Thomas Mion, researchers in the lab of BC Assistant Professor of Physics Rui - Hua He, a lead author of the paper.

The work involved a collaboration between UC Berkeley neuroscientist Diana Bautista, Ph.D., who runs a lab focused on the molecular basis of the sensations of itch, touch and pain, and Buck Associate Professor Rachel Brem, Ph.D., a geneticist who studies how and why traits differ between individuals.

Theorists at Caltech used quantum mechanics to predict what was happening at atomic scales, while experimentalists at the Department of Energy's (DOE's) Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (Berkeley Lab) used X-ray studies to analyze the steps of the chemical reaction.

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.

Berkeley Lab's Ping Hu, the lead author of the study, added: «We simulated the conditions of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill in the lab and were able to understand the mechanisms for oil degradation from all of the principal oil - degrading bacteria that were observed in the original oil spill.&raqLab's Ping Hu, the lead author of the study, added: «We simulated the conditions of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill in the lab and were able to understand the mechanisms for oil degradation from all of the principal oil - degrading bacteria that were observed in the original oil spill.&raqlab and were able to understand the mechanisms for oil degradation from all of the principal oil - degrading bacteria that were observed in the original oil spill.»

«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.

Working with Berkeley Lab scientist Jill Banfield, a study co-author and also a professor in UC Berkeley's Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, the team used newly developed DNA - based methods to identify all of the genomes of the microbes that used the introduced oil for growth along with their specific genes that were responsible for oil degradation.

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.

«Being able to put everything together at one point, walk away, come back, and then get your fuel, is a necessary step in moving forward with a biofuel economy,» said study principal investigator Aindrila Mukhopadhyay, vice president of the Fuels Synthesis Division at the Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI), a DOE Bioenergy Research Center at Berkeley Lab.

An international collaboration of scientists led by Omar Yaghi, a chemist with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), has developed a technique they dubbed «gas adsorption crystallography» that provides a new way to study the process by which metal - organic frameworks (MOFs)-- 3D crystals with extraordinarily large internal surface areas — are able to store immense volumes of gases such a carbon dioxide, hydrogen and methane.

Feng Wang, a condensed matter physicist with Berkeley Lab's Materials Sciences Division and UC Berkeley's Physics Department, as well as an investigator for the Kavli Energy NanoSciences Institute at Berkeley, led a study in which photo - induced doping of GBN heterostructures was used to create p - n junctions and other useful doping profiles while preserving the material's remarkably high electron mobility.

Scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have been studying the molecules that act at the genetic level to give rise to different types of cells.

The Natron Energy researchers studied the battery materials at Berkeley Lab's Molecular Foundry, a nanoscience center, and then offered up some sample battery cells for study at the ALS.

Rangamani started this research as a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of George Oster, professor emeritus of cell and developmental biology at the University of California, Berkeley and senior author of the study.

Other co-authors of the study included researchers from the Berkeley Lab, Japan's Nuclear Science and Engineering Directorate and Rolls Royce.

In a study led by Xiang Zhang, a faculty scientist with Berkeley Lab's Materials Sciences Division, the research team used a unique optical metamaterial with a refractive index of zero to generate «phase mismatch - free nonlinear light,» meaning the generated light waves move through the material gaining strength in all directions.

In addition to Berkeley Lab scientists, other researchers contributing to this study were from Ohio State University.

«This material should be very useful for spintronics studies,» said Sung - Kwan Mo, a physicist and staff scientist at Berkeley Lab's Advanced Light Source (ALS) who co-led the study, published in Nature Physics.

Shujie Tang, a visiting postdoctoral researcher at Berkeley Lab and Stanford University, and a co-lead author in the study, was instrumental in growing 3 - atom - thick crystalline samples of the material in a highly purified, vacuum - sealed compartment at the ALS, using a process known as molecular beam epitaxy.

This is a scanning tunneling microscopy image of a 2 - D material created and studied at Berkeley Lab's Advanced Light Source (orange, background).

The research, led by Peidong Yang of Berkeley Lab's Materials Sciences Division, was published this week in the journal Nature Materials in a study titled, «Thermochromic Halide Perovskite Solar Cells.»

This study was led by Robert Ritchie, a materials scientist with Berkeley Lab's Materials Sciences Division and Caltech's William Johnson, one of the pioneers in the field of bulk metallic glass fabrication.

«By working through each step so carefully, these researchers demonstrated a level of performance and efficiency that people did not think was possible at this point,» said Berkeley Lab chemist Frances Houle, JCAP deputy director for Science and Research Integration, who was not part of the study.

In a study led by Alexander Pines, a senior faculty scientist with Berkeley Lab's Materials Sciences Division and UC Berkeley's Glenn T. Seaborg Professor of Chemistry, researchers recorded the first bulk room - temperature NMR hyperpolarization of carbon - 13 nuclei in diamond in situ at arbitrary magnetic fields and crystal orientations.

«This is an exciting development,» said study principal investigator Joel Ager, a Berkeley Lab scientist with joint appointments in the Materials Sciences and the Chemical Sciences divisions.

The study was a joint effort of Holman, Berkeley Lab postdoctoral fellow Giovanni Birarda (now a scientist at Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste in Italy), UC Berkeley postdoctoral fellow Alexander Probst (now associate professor at the University of Duisburg - Essen in Germany), and Christine Moissl - Eichinger, the corresponding author of the study.

Samples from this Ancient Roman pier, Portus Cosanus in Orbetello, Italy, were studied with X-rays at Berkeley Lab.

The study was conducted at JCAP's Berkeley Lab campus.

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.

«Reducing CO2 to a hydrocarbon end product like ethanol or ethylene can take up to 5 volts, start to finish,» said study lead author Gurudayal, postdoctoral fellow at Berkeley Lab.

A new study by a collaboration of Berkeley Lab and Caltech researchers may point the way to improving the fatigue resistance of monolithic bulk glasses.

Other researchers in Berkeley Lab's Chemical Sciences Division and Biomedical Isotope Facility, and in UC Berkeley's Department of Chemistry also participated in the study.

«This study provides an important perspective on the trade - offs of cool pavements and gives cities a tool to understand them for their particular setting,» said Berkeley Lab researcher Haley Gilbert.

They used computing resources at Berkeley Lab's National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) in their study, with most of the computing work focused at GPU clusters at GSI in Germany and Central China Normal University in China.

Ryan Wiser, a co-author and the project manager for Berkeley Lab, said the study does not show that an individual home sale price was never affected by a wind project.