Berkeley Lab News Center Archive

2008

Tracking Down the Menace in Mexico City Smog (September 5)
The Brightest, Sharpest, Fastest X-Ray Holograms Yet (August 1)
A Phonon Floodgate in Monolayer Carbon (July 21)
Lab Wins Four Prestigious R&D 100 Awards (July 9)
Stress Meter for Earthquake Fault Zones (July 9)
New Electrostatic-based DNA Microarray Technique Could Revolutionize Medical Diagnostics (June 30)
Berkeley Lab, NOAA, NASA to Use Research Aircraft in Summertime Atmospheric Greenhouse Gas Sampling Project (June 20)
XPD Structure Gives Clue to Cancer, Aging (May 29)
New Clues to How Proteins Dissolve and Crystallize (May 12)
Photosynthetic Dimmer Switch (May 8)
The Surprising Electronics of Graphene (April 25)
On the Photosynthesis Energy Trail (April 25)
Energy Secretary’s Excellence Award to Molecular Foundry Project Management Team (March 27)
How Iron Gets into the North Pacific (March 19)

Previous press releases

2008

The Toughness of Bone (August 7)
Building 3-D Neural Networks with Beads
Technique could yield insights into brain function, expedite drug development (August 4)
A First in Integrated Nanowire Sensor Circuitry (August 1)
X-Ray Diffraction Looks Inside Aerogels in 3-D (July 28)
Golden Scales: Nanoscale Mass Sensor from Berkeley Can Be Used to Weigh Individual Atoms and Molecules (July 24)
Nano-Sized Jaws Perform Like Proteins (July 18)
Gauging the Quality of Indoor Air (July 14)
Understanding Hearing, Molecule by Molecule (July 9)
A New Champion for Chemical Analysis? (June 27)
Tony Spadafora: A New Kind of Director's Chief of Staff (June 27)
The Optimism of David McGraw
Head of Ops Heads into Retirement with a Positive Outlook (June 23)
Cell Blade is Top Code Booster (June 20)
Helping Juneau Power Down (June 18)
Chilean President Bachelet Visits Lab to Learn About Research On Renewable Energy and Conservation (June 16)
A Firing Up the Large Hadron Collider (June 12)
A Tailorable Nanotube, Formed by a Ring-shaped Protein (May 5)
Sniffing Out Trouble (May 2)
Cloudscapes - Diagnosing electron clouds in positive-particle accelerators (May 2)
Icing the IceCube Cake (April 18)
Life-Cycle Analysis (April 18)
Modeling to Build a Better Fuel Cell (April 18)
BELLA: The Next Stage in Laser Wakefield Acceleration (April 15)
Lost in Translation (April 14)
Green Computing (April 14)
Go Ask ALICE (February 15)
Irrelevant Regulators (February 15)
March of the Penguins (February 15)

Previous feature stories

Fletcher is White House Fellow (July 2)
Spadafora is New Chief of Staff (June 27)
Meza Given ‘Distinguished’ Award (June 16)
Synthetic Biology Journal Debuts (June 12)
2008 Summer Lecture Series (June 12)

NewsHour:
World’s Most Powerful Particle Accelerator Set to Launch

N.Y. Times:
Surpassing Nature, Scientists Bend Light Backward

N.Y. Times:
Gassing Up With Garbage

LA Times:
Findings Could Lead to Earthquake Prediction

Washington Post:
Toxicity in FEMA Trailers Blamed on Cheap Materials

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