Fast Company’s co.design wrote about Peidong Yang’s smart PV window discovery, covered in a Lab release. (March 23)
A Daily Cal Charter Day feature on some “darker” aspects of campus history included Lawrence’s founding of the Rad Lab and the discovery of elements for nuclear weapons. (March 22)
Nanowerk News highlights Lab-involved work on gaseous centers that can alert factory managers to chemical leaks. (March 22)
Science magazine quoted Harry Beller on his discovery of enzymes that can synthesize toluene. Nature and IFLScience also covered the research. (March 21)
Seeker wrote about a dark matter detector and quoted Stephen Derenzo. The research was covered in a Lab release and was also picked up by Space Daily, International Business Times, and UPI. (March 21)
Forbes, Discover, and Germany’s Der Tagesspiegel wrote about a JBEI study that found a way to make genetically engineered brewer’s yeast for hoppier tasting beer, saving energy and water. A UC Berkeley release was also featured at Futurity.org. (March 20)
Rich Muller and his daughter Elizabeth have announced a startup for storing nuclear waste, according to Bloomberg Businessweek. (March 20)
Newsweek reported on kagome metal, an exotic new quantum metal developed by scientists from MIT, Harvard, and the Lab. (March 20)
An NZ Herald item on sequencing the microbes in animal guts mentioned resources offered by JGI. (March 20)
ThinkGeoEnergy ran an update of the FORGE geothermal project in Fallon, Nevada, in which the Lab is a partner. (March 20)
San Diego Metro reported on a Lab-led a microgrid project at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego. (March 20)
The Daily Mail reports that Turkish police arrested four men for having 1.4 kg of Californium, a radioactive element it reports was first synthesized at the Lab in 1950. (March 20)
Civil + Structural Engineer covered a Lab release announcing the launch of the Water-Energy Resilience Research Institute. (March 19)
A Nature article on using machine learning for metagenomic studies highlighted a study by Simon Roux at JGI. (March 19)
Former Lab researcher Jennifer Potter has been named by the governor of Hawaii to the state PUC, reports Hawaii media outlets. (March 19)
A Lab release on crystallized water found trapped in diamonds was covered in The Daily Cal, The Hindu, and The Economic Times. (March 18)
ChemEurope.com notes the Lab’s involvement in a study exploring the use of metal organic frameworks, or MOFs, to remove heavy metals from water. Another report appeared in Nanowerk News. (March 16)
A story in Futurism on growing crops in extreme environments quoted Nikos Kyrpides. (March 13)