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.
A March 22 front-page San Jose Mercury News story highlighted the Lab’s involvement with the recent Planck satellite findings and quoted the Lab’s Julian Borrill. That story, and others like it, also ran in the Contra Costa Times, Sacramento Bee, Sky & Telescope, Universe Today (which also ran a separate story featuring NERSC), Daily Galaxy, and more than a dozen other news outlets.
http://www.mercurynews.com/science/ci_22842995/big-bang-baby-photo-berkeley-labs-supercomputer-helps
http://www.universetoday.com/100917/plancks-cosmic-map-reveals-universe-older-expanding-more-slowly/
A March 21 R&Dstory featured new work on metamaterials led by the Lab’s Xiang Zhang.
A March 18 New Scientist story on the future of accelerators noted the Lab’s BELLA tabletop version.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23295-plasmasurfing-could-forge-higgs-bosons-on-the-cheap.html
A March 18 India Weststory on new inductees into the National Academy of Engineering included the Lab’s Ashok Gadgil.
A March 15 Live Science story on light emitted from coral quoted the Lab’s Melissa Roth.
A recent HPC Wirestory looked at cloud modeling by the Lab’s David Romps.