Gizmodo quoted Junko Yano in a piece on new research by her and Jan Kern and Vittal Yachandra (all MBIB) to produce high-res images of photosynthesis, which was shared in news releases from SLAC and the Lab. Science Codex, TechExplorist, and Photonics Online also covered the study, which was published in Nature.
Climate News Network wrote about two new studies related to forest carbon storage, one of them led by William Riley (EESA), which was covered in a Lab release.
Cool Business Ideas covered a Lab release and quoted Gideon Segev (CSD) on a hybrid cell that turns sunlight and water into hydrogen and electricity.
Jonathan Ajo-Franklin (EESA) is quoted extensively in a piece in Communications of the ACM on using fiber optic cable for earthquake detection, the subject of a Lab release last year.
Durability+Design reported Lab work on a pigment called Egyptian Blue, which can keep buildings cool.
The Lab or Lab staff appeared in the following media:
NBC’s Press:Here ran a ten-minute segment with Irfan Siddiqi (MS) on quantum computing.
Saul Perlmutter (PH) is mentioned in a Washington Post piece on how to combat fake news, about an online tool called Public Editor, which Perlmutter helped developed at the UC Berkeley Institute for Data Science.
Physics World mentioned the Lab and Vladimir Kresin (CS) in a piece on x-ray scattering revealing plasmons in high-temperature superconductors.
A Scientific American piece on solar power in Florida mentioned an NREL-led project involving the Lab on battery storage and how to reduce the duck curve problems.
E&E News ClimateWire cited a study by Chelsea Preble (ETA) in a piece on black carbon and truck emissions.
AIP covered the DOE release on the new supercomputer to be developed, called Perlmutter, that will triple the Lab’s computing power. It was also covered by ServerWatch.
Greentech Media mentioned the Lab’s role in creating tintable glass technology using electricity.
Buzzfeed reported on 1,600 scientists signing an open letter opposing a legal definition of a gender binary, and included a quote from Russell Neches (JGI).
BioFuels Digest ran slides from Cyclotron Road on its entrepreneurial impact.
InsideHPC previewed the upcoming SC18 conference and mentioned presentations by Inder Monga (Computing) and Nick Wright (NERSC).
A Lab study on states’ renewable energy mandates is cited in a Tucson Sentinel piece on renewable energy ballot measures in Arizona and Nevada.
Watershed Sentinel reported on the concept of “overshoot” and a book, Our Renewable Future, co-authored by David Fridley (ETA).
Space Daily covered a study on plasma astrophysics by the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, which used NERSC to simulate plasma turbulence.