Hugo Destaillats was quoted in an Inside Science piece on thirdhand smoke that ran in SFGate.com. (Dec. 8)
Marketplace radio interviewed Kristin Persson about battery research and ran a two-part series with her, one segment on lithium-ion batteries and a second on next-generation batteries. The segments ran on a number of other public radio stations as well, including WWNO in New Orleans and WVTF in Virginia. (Dec. 7)
EnvironmentGuru, LaboratoryEquipment, and others picked up a Lab release on better gas mask filters, research by Hendrik Bluhm, Lena Trotochaud, and Ashley Head. (Dec. 7)
A Lab news release on work led by Jonathan Ajo-Franklin to use fiber optic cables for detection of subsurface activity was picked up by AGU’s Geospace blog, GeologyPage, International Business Times, and others. (Dec. 6)
Dale Sartor was quoted in a Vox.com article about Google buying renewable energy certificates to power its data servers. (Dec. 6)
A feature in The Atlantic about climate change and the SoCal fires cited a 2006 Lab study on the Santa Ana winds. (Dec. 6)
Nanowerk.com picked up a Lab release detailing how NERSC was used in a study of how early supernovae affected star formation. (Dec. 6)
Space Daily quoted the Lab’s David Schlegel in an article about a supermassive black hole discovery. (Dec. 6)
The Daily Mail quoted Lab physicist Hitoshi Murayama in an article about dark matter particles. (Dec. 5)
PV Magazine featured a study by Berkeley and Argonne labs about variable renewable energy. (Dec. 5)
CleanTechnica, Engadget, TechSpot, DesignNews, and others covered the discovery of a fast magnesium battery electrolyte, which was announced in a Lab release. Several of the articles quoted Gerd Ceder. TechNews made a short video about the news. (Dec. 4)
Proceso, a magazine in Mexico, ran an article about the National Autonomous University of Mexico building three “clean energy” buildings with participation from Lab researchers. (Dec. 4)
A Portland Press Herald article on the reliability of Maine’s electric utility cited a 2017 Lab study. (Dec. 3)