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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
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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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Berkeley Lab Press
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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
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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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Berkeley Lab Press
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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.
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utilitydive.com
Inside the rapidly changing world of Electricity Supply and Demand. Access the Utility Dive Trendline
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Berkeley Lab Press
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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
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space.com
"We've been waiting to reach this point for a long time."
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Berkeley Lab Press
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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.
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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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Berkeley Lab Press
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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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Berkeley Lab Press
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Kudos to @fervoenergy and @ZanskarGeo for their innovative efforts to advance #geothermal energy via @YouTube.
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Berkeley Lab Press
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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
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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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Berkeley Lab Press
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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….
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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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Berkeley Lab Press
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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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Berkeley Lab Press
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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.
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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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Berkeley Lab Press
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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."
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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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Berkeley Lab Press
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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
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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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Berkeley Lab Press
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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
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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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Berkeley Lab Press
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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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Berkeley Lab Press
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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.”
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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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Berkeley Lab Press
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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.”
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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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Berkeley Lab Press
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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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Berkeley Lab Press
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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
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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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