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Climate Summit in US: A critical time for India in charting out its sustainable future Letter by Shankar Sharma, Power & Climate Policy Analyst, to Members of the Union Cabinet, Govt. of India, on “Invitation for India for Climate Summit in the US  — the need to target for net zero emissions by 2050”: May I draw your kind attention to the recent development that India is invited for a Climate Summit in the US in April 2021 to underscore the urgency and the economic benefits of stron...

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory developed a method of detecting preclinical cardiovascular disease that is not only noninvasive, but also affordable and more accurate than some existing technologies. The method was created by Jonathan Maltz and Thomas Budinger, affiliate scientists at Berkeley Lab. According to Maltz, he and Budinger have been working together for more than 20 years, and he has been developing this method since 2009. “It is low-cost, simple and does not need a skilled o...

Guosong Zeng, a postdoctoral scholar, and Francesca Toma, a staff scientist, both in the Chemical Sciences Division of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, test the artificial photosynthesis device developed by Zetian Mi, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Michigan. Rather than degrading over time, as is typical for devices that turn water and light into hydrogen fuel, this device improves. Image credit: Berkeley Lab In a finding that could help make artif...

Missing Baryons Found in Far-Out Reaches of Galactic Halos Berkeley Lab physicists play key role in studies that solve a cosmological mystery March 16, 2021 20 Shares A new study has found that a share of particles that has been challenging to locate is most likely sprinkled across the distant bounds of galaxy halos. The study found some of these particles of baryonic matter are located up to 6 million light-years from their galactic centers. This color-rendered image shows the halo of the Andr...

Light Unbound: Data Limits Could Vanish with New Optical Antennas Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have found a new way to harness properties of light waves that can radically increase the amount of data they carry. They demonstrated the emission of discrete twisting laser beams from antennas made up of concentric rings roughly equal to the diameter of a human hair, small enough to be placed on computer ch...

 E-Mail ITHACA, N.Y. - Using light from the Big Bang, an international team led by Cornell University and the U.S. Department of Energys Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has begun to unveil the material which fuels galaxy formation. "There is uncertainty on the formation of stars within galaxies that theoretical models are unable to predict," said lead author Stefania Amodeo, a Cornell postdoctoral researcher in astronomy in the College of Arts and Sciences, who now conducts research at t...

But policies are needed to spur widespread adoption. Mar 16th, 2021 iStock When it comes to electric vehicles, particularly for heavy-duty trucks, the limitations of battery technology are often seen as the main barrier to widespread adoption. However, a new analysis concludes that its the lack of appropriate policies around adoption incentives, charging infrastructure, and electricity pricing that prevents widespread electrification of commercial trucking fleets. Researchers from the Departmen...

10 Shares The High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) Accelerator Upgrade Project magnets use conductors made of niobium-tin to generate a stronger magnetic field compared to predecessor technology. These world-record-setting magnets will have their debut in the HL-LHC project at CERN. Its run will be the first time that U.S.-built niobium-tin magnets will be used in a particle accelerator for particle physics research. (Credit: Dan Cheng/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) Note: This...

Date Time U.S. Magnet Development Project for CERN Particle Collider Upgrade Moves Forward The High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) Accelerator Upgrade Project magnets use conductors made of niobium-tin to generate a stronger magnetic field compared to predecessor technology. These world-record-setting magnets will have their debut in the HL-LHC project at CERN. Its run will be the first time that U.S.-built niobium-tin magnets will be used in a particle accelerator for particle physi...

  Something is messing with our universe, and that something is the enduring mystery astronomers have dubbed dark energy –which comprises about two-thirds of the mass and energy in the universe. Determining how rapidly the universe is expanding is key to understanding our cosmic fate, but with more precise data has come a conundrum, reports the University of California Berkeley: “estimates based on measurements within our local universe don’t agree with extrapolations from the era shortl...