Berkeley
Lab “In the News” is our weekly review of Lab researchers, staff, and students
who have appeared in the news media this past week. This is but a sampling of
our coverage. Please note that some links may expire after time.
An Oct. 25 UPI News
story looked at work by the Lab’s Robert
Ritchie showing the basis for a particular fish’s piranha-proof scales.
An Oct. 25 Dewsbury
Reporter story profiled the Lab’s Ian
Hinchliffe and his work with the Large Hadron Collider.
An Oct. 24 Travel
Channel story looked at one of the first hacking arrests with the help of
former employee, Cliff Stoll.
An Oct. 23 BBC News
story featured work led by the Lab’s Axel
Visel and Catia Attanasio
showing what leads to the creation of our facial features. The Guardian, Philadelphia Inquirer, SciCasts, GenomeWeb, TruthDive, French Tribune, the Business Standard and many others also
covered their work.
http://www.genomeweb.com/arrays/genomics-journals
(subscription may be required)
An Oct. 23 Scientific
American post highlighted work led by the Lab’s Jennifer Logue showing the benefits of sealing leaky homes. The
work was widely covered by Reuters, Green
Building Advisor, Benzinga, and many others.
A recent October Climatewire
story featured work on biofuels being conducted at JBEI and the Advanced
Biofuels Process Demonstration Unit. Blake
Simmons, Jian Shi, Dominique Loque and
Julio Baez were all quoted.
An Oct. 23 Scientific
American story on the search for matter and antimatter quoted the Lab’s Alan Poon. The story originally ran in Quanta.
An Oct. 23 Science
Daily story featured work led by the Lab’s Greg Hura and John Tainer,
who found new ways to observe DNA repair protein in action.
An Oct. 22 San
Francisco Business Journal story noted new efforts to track forest fires using
satellites with participation from the Lab’s Carl Pennypacker. Pennypacker also appeared on a KPIX-TV Channel 5 story on the project. IEEE Spectrum and Science Recorder also
covered the effort.
An Oct. 22 Technology
Review story on a bioengineer quoted the Lab’s Seung-Wuk Lee.
An Oct. 22 USA Today
story on Craig Venter quoted the Lab’s Adam
Arkin.
An Oct. 21 Contra
Costa Times story on how people were dealing with the BART strike quoted
the Lab’s Melissa Summers.
An Oct. 20 Business
Standard story on energy efficiency efforts in India cited recent Lab
research.