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"News of this material is indeed very promising, and we look forward to information on additional important properties like machinability and weldability," says @BerkeleyLab's Soren Prestemon #fusion
popularmechanics.com
To make fusion reactors, we need materials that can withstand its punishing environment, and a new Chinese-made material can survive reactors’ intense conditions.
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Creatively thinking, this cool fundamental science could lead to entangling two anti-matter #qubits and ultimately entangling a matter and anti-matter qubit, thus gaining more insight into fundamental particle physics says @BerkeleyLab 's Bert de Jong
gizmodo.com
In its second antimatter breakthrough this month, CERN announced it successfully created the first-ever antimatter qubit, paving the way to even weirder quantum experiments.
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"The best practices in planning align investments to achieve specific outcomes which clearly support established planning objectives," says @berkeleylab's Lisa Schwartz. The best metrics reflect priority & contribution to the solution. via @UtilityDive.
utilitydive.com
Inside the rapidly changing world of Electricity Supply and Demand. Access the Utility Dive Trendline
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"We think we really understand the calibration in a way no one has before, and we’re excited to add more #supernovas and see what they can tell us about #darkenergy," says @BerkeleyLab's Greg Aldering
space.com
"We've been waiting to reach this point for a long time."
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"From high-performance magnets to advanced lasers & simulations, we're engaged with U.S. industry, like TAE, TypeOne Energy & Realta Fusion to develop technologies & insights to help unlock the potential of #fusion energy" - @Berkeleylab’s Cameron Geddes.
time.com
Clean energy from nuclear fusion may soon be commercial. But leaders around the world have done little to prepare.
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"In order to turn bold ideas into practical solutions at a scale which benefits society, industry needs access to the scientific expertise provided by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory & other national laboratories," says @BerkeleyLab's Deepti Tanjore.
thomasnet.com
The Advanced Biofuels and Bioproducts Process Development Unit (ABPDU) helps bridge the gap between biotech innovation and commercialization by providing companies with the tools, expertise, and infra
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Kudos to @fervoenergy and @ZanskarGeo for their innovative efforts to advance #geothermal energy via @YouTube.
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"Our approach will give scientists a powerful tool to investigate normal gene regulation and unravel the increasingly strong link between #disease and variations in the non-coding #genome ,” says @BerkeleyLab’s Michael Kosicki
phys.org
Understanding human biology requires more than mapping our genes—we must also understand how gene expression is regulated to guide healthy development, growth, and maintenance of our body systems...
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RT @BerkeleyLab: “This project has resulted in the most comprehensive and detailed estimate yet of the costs of power outages.” – Peter Lar….
newscenter.lbl.gov
Tools confirm the need for significant investments to make the U.S. power grid more reliable and secure
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RT @BerkeleyLab: From short blips to long blackouts, we're crunching the numbers on power outages. 🧮💡 Our researchers developed tools to es….
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"Gravity could be made of gravitons, like light and photons. Or maybe, like sound waves in a gas, it could come from the entropic dynamics of some microscopic thermal system,” says @BerkeleyLab's Daniel Carney via @QuantaMagazine.
quantamagazine.org
A new argument explores how the growth of disorder could cause massive objects to move toward one another. Physicists are both interested and skeptical.
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Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Nvidia, DOE partner to build ultra-fast super computer @BerkeleyLab @NVIDIAAI @Dell #AI via @CBSNews.
cbsnews.com
The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is teaming up with Bay Area chip maker Nvidia and the U.S. Department of Energy to build Doudna - a new, ultra-fast and energy-efficient super-computer. Ryan...
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"String-breaking for quarks has a number of open theoretical questions," says @BerkeleyLab's Anthony Ciavarell. "The rapid growth of #QuantumComputing hardware has enabled researchers to begin to simulate this process directly."
newscientist.com
Computer simulations of high-energy particles are pushing the boundaries of what we can learn about the interactions that happen inside particle colliders
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U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright announced the new supercomputer Thursday at @BerkeleyLab alongside execs from @Dell & @nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. The machine could be @ENERGY's biggest resource for tasks like training A.I. models. #AI
apnews.com
A new supercomputer named after a winner of the Nobel Prize in chemistry will help power artificial intelligence technology and scientific discoveries from a perch in the hills above the University...
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The new supercomputer, which uses @NVIDIAAI chips tailored for A.I. calculations, could be the Energy Department’s biggest resource for tasks like training A.I. models, says @BerkeleyLab's Jonathan Carter @ENERGY
nytimes.com
The new supercomputer shows the increasing desire of government labs to adopt more technologies from commercial artificial intelligence systems.
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RT @nvidianewsroom: Designed to accelerate science, @doescience announces the new “Doudna” supercomputer, powered by NVIDIA and @Dell at @N….
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“We’re talking about two orders of magnitude more compute than any kind of academic data set that’s ever been made,” says @BerkeleyLab's Sam Blau who worked with @Meta on this. “It’s going to dramatically change how people do computational chemistry.”
semafor.com
The Open Molecules 2025 project required 6 billion compute hours in Meta data centers, and could make complex chemistry calculations 10,000 times faster.
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“#Water is the ore body of the 21st century,” says the Lab's Peter Fiske. “Technology now is allowing us to pick through the garbage piles of #wastewater and pick out the high-value items.”
nytimes.com
At the Berkeley Pit, researchers hope to extract valuable metals to increase U.S. production of rare earths used in electric cars, medical advances and national defense.
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RT @BerkeleyLab: Meet the entrepreneurs shaping America’s future in computing, energy & biotech. See what @ENERGY’s LEEP makes possible at….
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Mid-sized #datacenters uses as much as 300,000 gallons of water daily — the equivalent usage of 1,000 American homes, says @BerkeleyLab's Arman Shehabi
thecooldown.com
Microsoft revealed its new water-positive data center design in August 2024 and currently has 76 projects in 26 areas worldwide.
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