Berkeley Lab In the News, Week of August 24, 2014

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 August 29 Los Angeles Times story on a new report on fracking in California noted that Berkeley Lab researchers helped lead the effort. EE News and several other outlets also covered the new report.

http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-fracking-report-20140829-story.html

http://www.eenews.net/greenwire/2014/08/28/stories/1060005019

An August 28 Tech Times story highlighted comparative research into the genomes of flies, worms and humans and quoted the Lab’s Sue Celniker, a study co-author. Wall StreetOTC and several other outlets also covered the findings.

http://www.techtimes.com/articles/14349/20140828/humans-related-flies-worms-genome.htm

http://www.wallstreetotc.com/flies-humans-and-worms-share-common-genetic-codes/28112/

An August 28 R&D.com story featured cool roofs research in China led by the Lab’s Ronnen Levinson.

http://www.rdmag.com/news/2014/08/cool-roofs-china-can-save-energy-reduce-emissions

An August 27 Scientific American story featured research on ionic liquids led by the Lab’s Seema Singh and Blake Simmons.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/recycled-biofuel-byproducts-could-make-biofuels-even-greener/

An August 26 Daily Cal looked at a new multi-lab collaboration to study climate change and quoted the Lab’s Bill Collins. R&D magazine also ran a story.

http://www.dailycal.org/2014/08/26/uc-berkeley-researchers-take-part-national-effort-predict-climate-change/

http://www.rdmag.com/news/2014/08/new-project-acme-addressing-climate-change

An August 26 National Geographic story on data energy waste quoted the Lab’s Bill Tschudi.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/energy/2014/08/140826-nrdc-data-center-energy-waste/

An August 26 Nanowerk story featured work on a promising new material that may challenge graphene and quoted the study’s author, Feng Wang. R&D magazine and Azom.com also covered his research.

http://www.nanowerk.com/nanotechnology-news/newsid=37084.php

http://www.rdmag.com/news/2014/08/competition-graphene

http://www.azom.com/news.aspx?newsID=42267

An August 25 Physics World story on research into the conductance of single-molecule junctions quoted Zhenfei Liu, who works in the lab of Jeff Neaton.

http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2014/aug/25/cracking-the-code-for-single-molecule-junctions

Berkeley Lab In the News, Week of August 17, 2014

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 August 22 Live Science story highlighted work co-led by the Lab’s Oliver Gessner which helps give a better understanding of quantum vortices within liquid helium.

http://www.livescience.com/47502-quantum-tornadoes-swirl-inside-liquid-helium.html

An August 22 story on The Energy Collective covered a new Lab-led report on wind power and quoted the Lab’s Ryan Wiser. CleanEnergy and FierceEnergy were some of the other outlets that also covered the report’s release.

http://theenergycollective.com/eric-wesoff/468266/price-us-wind-power-all-time-low-25-cents-kilowatt-hour?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=The+Energy+Collective+(all+posts)

http://blog.cleanenergy.org/2014/08/19/new-report-on-wind-energy-shows-cost-reductions-innovation/

http://www.fierceenergy.com/story/us-wind-capacity-double-2020/2014-08-19

An August 21 story in The Ecologist featured a recent report on fracking led by the Lab’s William Stringfellow.

http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_round_up/2525410/health_alert_frackings_chemical_cocktails.html

An August 21 story in Today’s Facility Manager noted that the Lab’s Environmental Energy Technologies Division had won a Champion of Energy Award from the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy.

http://todaysfacilitymanager.com/2014/08/aceee-announces-2014-champions-of-energy-efficiency-in-buildings-awards/

An August 19 San Francisco Chronicle story on the origins of meteorites quoted the Lab’s Kunihiko Nishiizumi.

http://www.sfgate.com/science/article/Origins-of-meteorites-traced-back-billions-of-5696820.php

An August 19 Contra Costa Times story looked at a new multi-lab effort to model climate change. HPC Wire and FCW.com also covered the announcement.

http://www.contracostatimes.com/contra-costa-times/ci_26366458/livermore-berkeley-labs-part-supercomputing-effort-model-climate

http://fcw.com/articles/2014/08/20/national-labs-climate-modeling.aspx

http://www.hpcwire.com/off-the-wire/acme-project-unleash-supercomputing-climate-change/

An August 18 KGO-TV Channel 7 story highlighted work at the Molecular Foundry and Advanced Light Source to improve computer chips. The story included interviews with Deirdre Olynick, Patrick Naulleau, and Paul Ashby.

http://abc7news.com/technology/berkeley-lab-researchers-working-on-smaller-faster-chip/269983/

Berkeley Lab In the News, Week of August 10, 2014

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 August 14 Fox News story featured research on microscopic particles brought back from space and mentioned the Advanced Light Source and Andrew Westphal. Daily Galaxy, Space.com, the Business Standard, California magazine and others ran similar stories.

http://www.foxnews.com/science/2014/08/14/nasa-probe-may-have-caught-dust-from-interstellar-space-first/

http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2014/08/microscopic-particles-from-an-ancient-supernova-captured-by-nasas-stardust-mission-1.html

http://www.business-standard.com/article/news-ians/comet-dust-more-complex-in-composition-structure-114081500250_1.html

http://alumni.berkeley.edu/california-magazine/just-in/2014-08-14/stardust-captured-scientists-likely-find-first-bits-beyond

An August 14 Sacramento Bee opinion piece on efforts to study the brain was co-authored by Lab Director Paul Alivisatos.

http://www.sacbee.com/2014/08/14/6626824/viewpoints-california-can-lead.html

An August 14 Huffington Post story on air quality in India quoted the Lab’s Joshua Apte.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/angel-hsu/new-air-quality-index-may_b_5674853.html

An August 13 Newsweek story highlighted new research on fracking led by the Lab’s William Stringfellow. His work was widely covered by Popular Mechanics, Salon and R&D magazine among others.

http://www.newsweek.com/theres-lot-we-still-dont-know-about-fracking-chemicals-264452

http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/toxicity-of-one-third-of-fracking-chemicals-unknown-2493008

http://www.salon.com/2014/08/14/we_have_no_idea_if_many_commonly_used_fracking_chemicals_are_safe/

http://www.rdmag.com/news/2014/08/new-look-what%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%9Cfracking%E2%80%9D-fluids-raises-red-flags

An August 13 ExecutiveGov.com story noted Bill Tschudi’s efforts to help data centers go green.

http://www.executivegov.com/2014/08/william-tschudi-lbnl-aims-to-help-agency-data-centers-go-green/

An August 13 San Jose Mercury News story profiled the Lab’s Howdy Goudey and Robin Mitchell.

http://www.mercurynews.com/my-town/ci_26330420/el-cerrito-couple-takes-growing-activist-role

An August 12 CBS News story featured research led by the Lab’s Paul Williams showing too much exercise may be harmful after a heart attack. Numerous other news outlets including the London Telegraph, Time magazine, New York Daily News, Huffington Post, KIRO-TV and KOVR-TV, Medscape, China’s Xinhua News and the Toronto Globe and Mail, also covered his work.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/too-much-exercise-can-be-harmful-after-a-heart-attack/

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/11028903/Heart-attack-survivors-should-exercise-for-no-more-than-half-an-hour-a-day-study.html

http://time.com/3104455/more-exercise-isnt-always-better-study-shows/

http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/running-4-miles-day-bad-article-1.1901922

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/08/14/too-much-exercise_n_5672265.html

http://www.dailycal.org/2014/08/13/risk-death-significantly-lower-heart-attack-survivors-run-walk-excessively-study-shows/

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health-and-fitness/fitness/how-much-should-you-exercise-if-youve-suffered-a-heart-attack-new-study-crunches-the-numbers/article20046813/

http://news.health.com/2014/08/13/for-heart-attack-survivors-more-exercise-isnt-always-better-study-says/

http://www.philly.com/philly/health/hearthealth/HealthDay690682_20140812_For_Heart_Attack_Survivors__More_Exercise_Isn_t_Always_Better__Study_Says.html

http://www.kirotv.com/news/news/national/heart-attack-survivors-its-risky-exercise-too-much/ng2Y6/

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/health/2014-08/13/c_126863338.htm

http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/829988

An August 12 Eco-Business Q&A with the Lab’s Steve Selkowitz looked at efforts towards a zero-energy future.

http://www.eco-business.com/news/building-towards-zero-energy-future/

An August 12 story in The Guardian on challenges in efforts to switch to renewables quoted the Lab’s Chuck Goldman.

http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2014/aug/12/big-data-windmill-solar-farms-electricity-renewable-energy

An August 11 Inc.com story on a new chip by IBM quoted the Lab’s Horst Simon.

http://www.inc.com/jill-krasny/ibm-truenorth-chip-technology.html

Berkeley Lab In the News, July 27 to August 8, 2014

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 August 7 New York Times story on a new IBM computer chip designed to work like a human brain quoted the Lab’s Horst Simon. The Wall Street Journal, Cnet and Forbes were among many others who quoted Simon in similar stories.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/08/science/new-computer-chip-is-designed-to-work-like-the-brain.html

http://online.wsj.com/articles/ibm-unveils-chip-simulating-brain-functions-1407434402?mod=ST1

http://www.cnet.com/news/ibms-truenorth-processor-mimics-the-human-brain/

http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2014/08/07/ibm-builds-a-scalable-computer-chip-inspired-by-the-brain/

An August 7 KPIX-TV Channel 5 story featured the iCLEM program held at JBEI and included the Lab’s Shaila Kotadia. (Video is in 3 parts)

Pt1: https://archive.org/details/KPIX_20140807_130000_KPIX_5_News_Early_Edition#start/812/end/872

Pt. 2: https://archive.org/details/KPIX_20140807_130000_KPIX_5_News_Early_Edition#start/840/end/900

Pt. 3:

https://archive.org/details/KPIX_20140807_130000_KPIX_5_News_Early_Edition#start/900/end/960

An August 7 EveryDayHealth column with Sanjay Gupta looked at thirdhand smoke and quoted the Lab’s Lara Gundel.

http://www.everydayhealth.com/columns/paging-dr-gupta/what-is-thirdhand-smoke-and-is-it-harmful/

An August 6 Vox.com story on indoor air quality quoted the Lab’s William Fisk.

http://www.vox.com/2014/8/6/5971187/carbon-dioxide-indoors-air-pollution

An August 6 Austrian Tribune story featured work on sound waves led by the Lab’s Xiang Zhang. GizMag and the Daily Mail also covered the work.

http://austriantribune.com/informationen/144288-new-technique-bottle-sound-waves

http://www.gizmag.com/acoustic-bottle-beams-imaging-cloaking-levitation/33231/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2716820/Forget-cloaks-invisibility-BOTTLE-bends-sound-waves-hide-objects.html

An August 6 Daily Cal story on a new DOE effort to publicize federally-funded research quoted the Lab’s John Stoner.

http://www.dailycal.org/2014/08/06/department-energy-launch-free-database-federally-funded-research/

An August 1 Los Angeles Times story on a report on the San Onofre nuclear plant mentioned Robert Budnitz, the report’s author. The Orange County Register, San Diego Union-Tribune and Yahoo!News also covered the report.

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-san-onofre-report-20140801-story.html

http://www.ocregister.com/articles/san-630480-generators-steam.html

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/san-onofre-nuclear-power-plant-cost-4-bn-164711464.html#Z9V7BP6

http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2014/jul/31/nuclear-report-san-onofre-expert-rebuffed/

A July 31 SciCasts.com story highlighted work led by the Lab’s Henrik Scheller to help advance the genetic engineering of fuel crops.

http://scicasts.com/green-biology/1866-environmental-issues/8210-how-sweet-it-is-researchers-develop-new-tool-for-characterizing-plant-sugar-transporters/

A July 31 National Geographic story on the spike in Oklahoma quakes quoted the Lab’s Ernie Majer.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/energy/2014/07/140731-oklahoma-earthquake-spike-wastewater-injection/