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How To: Assemble a large hadron collider
One of my favorite parts about going on tours of laboratories are the signs and jokes that scientists post on office doors and lab walls. This gem comes from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The obvious question: How do you transport an infinite number of electrons home from IKEA? Does that fit on the little [...]
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Flexing fingers for micro-robotics: Berkeley Lab scientists create a powerful, microscale actuator
Berkeley, Calif., Dec.17,2012—Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California, Berkeley, have developed an elegant and powerful new microsc... Read Post
A look back: Berkeley Lab scientists raced to estimate oil flow from Deepwater Horizon macondo well
The first two weeks of June 2010 were a blur for six scientists from he U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). As the world focused on the ongoing crisis in the Gulf of Mexico after the blo... Read Post
Berkeley Lab scientists help develop promising therapy for Huntington's disease
There's new hope in the fight against Huntington's disease. A group of researchers that includes scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have designed a compound that supp... Read Post