Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (Audio): Recent Episodes
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Hear about Jennifer Doudna's discovery of CRISPR/Cas9, a genome editing tool, and its bioethical implications. Doudna, Professor of Molecular & Cell Biology and Chemistry at UC Berkeley, speaks with NPR's Joe Palca. Series: "Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory " [Science] [Show ID: 33095]
From simulating supernovae to growing food in our cities, Berkeley Lab scientists dive into the big questions that drive their research. Come hear Judy Campisi, Kai Vetter, Shashi Buluswar, Javier Ceja-Navarro, and Ann Almgren. Series: "Science at the Theater" [Science] [Show ID: 32045]
Every discovery and invention starts with a question. From wave energy to dark energy, find out how Berkeley Lab scientists dive into the big questions that drive their research. Series: "Science at the Theater" [Science] [Show ID: 32044]
Hear from six Berkeley Lab scientists with big new ideas designed to help transform our carbon-drenched, overheating world. These short presentations cover desalination, energy efficient window coating, capturing carbon, energy from ocean waves, alternate fuel for your car, and an app that compares fuel economy or EV range. Series: "Science at the Theater" [Public Affairs] [Science] [Show ID: 31928]
Kendra Kuhl co-founded Opus 12 to find out if an electrochemical process, operating inside a desk-sized reactor, can do on an industrial scale what is often hailed as the Holy Grail of carbon-recycling research—convert CO2 captured from smokestacks into ethanol and other valuable products. Series: "Science at the Theater" [Science] [Show ID: 31941]
A Berkeley Lab scientist specializing in all things vehicular—from powertrain technologies, vehicle electrification and vehicle-grid integration to advanced engine technologies, personalized fuel economy and EV range prediction—Samveg (Sam) Saxena is leading the development of a new app called MyGreenCar. Series: "Science at the Theater" [Science] [Show ID: 31942]
Replacing millions of porous windows with energy-efficient versions in older buildings and homes can be prohibitively expensive. Berkeley Lab’s Raymond Weitekamp, a Caltech PhD, has a new approach: an inexpensive, paint-on, energy-efficient coating that can be applied simply and evenly without the help of a professional—while the windows are still in place. Series: "Science at the Theater" [Science] [Show ID: 31938]
At CalWave, Marcus Lehmann is developing the WaveCarpet, which harnesses the power of ocean waves to produce electricity and freshwater. Series: "Science at the Theater" [Science] [Show ID: 31939]
Removing excess carbon from an overheating atmosphere is an urgent and complicated problem. The answer, according to Berkeley Lab’s Jeff Urban, could lie at the nanoscale. Series: "Science at the Theater" [Science] [Show ID: 31940]
Berkeley Lab Scientist, Bill Collins, discusses what we know about climate change, how we know it, and what we can do about it. Collins serves as the director for the Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division at Berkeley Lab. He is also the director of the Climate Readiness Institute, a multi-campus initiative to prepare the Bay Area for climate change. Series: "Science at the Theater" [Science] [Show ID: 30892]
Berkeley Lab physicist Wim Leemans discusses his research on developing a tabletop-size particle accelerator. Series: "Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory " [Science] [Show ID: 29638]
Berkeley Lab scientist Lara Kueppers explores the relationship between vegetation and the earth's climate. Series: "Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory " [Science] [Show ID: 29639]
Berkeley Lab scientist Marcus Lehmann, a member of the Lab's Cyclotron Road cohort, discusses his research on harnessing energy from ocean waves. Series: "Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory " [Science] [Show ID: 29640]
Berkeley Lab scientist David Schlegel discusses his research on mapping the universe and understanding dark energy. Series: "Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory " [Science] [Show ID: 29636]
Berkeley Lab scientist Haimei Zheng discusses the future of electron microscopy and her breakthrough research into examining liquids using an electron microscope. Series: "Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory " [Science] [Show ID: 29637]
A Department of Energy national laboratory managed by the University of California, Berkeley Lab takes on the world's most urgent challenges, from sustainable energy and advanced computing to understanding disease and curbing climate change. Series: "Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory " [Science] [Show ID: 29416]
Eight Berkeley Lab scientists took the stage and in 8 minutes each explained the latest science on topics from solar-powered vaccine refrigerators and cool roof maps to radiation pills and space dust. Katie Antypas - Energy Efficient Supercomputing, Ronnen Levinson -Cool Roofs Through Time and Space, Musahid Ahmed - Combustion Science for Cleaner Fuels, Andrew Westphal - First Rocks from Outside the Solar System, Ben Brown - Enhancing Human and Planetary Health Through Responsible Innovation, Sylvain Costes - Promoting a Healthier DNA, Rebecca Abergel - A pill to treat people exposed to radioactive materials, Shashi Buluswar - Portable Solar Vaccine Refrigerator. Series: "Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory " [Science] [Show ID: 28969]
Researchers “pitch” their technologies, then audience members and a panel of judges will vote on which one most benefits society. The technology pitches are from five Berkeley Lab scientists. the contestants: Tracking and Hacking Personal DNA Damage - Sylvain Costes, Biophysicist; Making Better Batteries - Guoying Chen, Chemist; Dress Code for Martians - Alex Zettl, Physicist; Making Energy Measurement Stick - Steven Lanzisera, Applied Energy Scientist; Molecular Velcro - Gloria Olivier, Chemist. Judges: Braden Penhoet, UC Berkeley visiting scholar and consultant; Robin Johnston, Director of Commercialization, JBEI; Peter Fiske, scientist, author, CEO of PAX Water. Series: "Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory " [Science] [Business] [Show ID: 28610]
Eight Berkeley Lab scientists present eight game-changing concepts in eight minutes each. Series: "Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory " [Science] [Show ID: 28806]
Saul Perlmutter, UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, describes the research that led to his 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics Series: "Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory " [Science] [Show ID: 28609]
George Smoot, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, describes the research that led to his Nobel Prize in physics in 2006. Series: "Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory " [Science] [Show ID: 28608]
Warren Washington, a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and an internationally recognized expert on atmospheric science and climate research, describes the research that led to the 2007 Nobel Prize. Series: "Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory " [Science] [Show ID: 28607]
John Kuriyan, a member of Martin Karplus’ team which earned the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, describes the research that led to the prize. Series: "Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory " [Science] [Show ID: 28606]
At Berkeley Lab's "Science Remix" at Richmond's East Bay Center for the Performing Arts, Berkeley Lab scientists -- with some help from the audience -- shared how discovery happens, showed what it means to you and revealed why science can be as personal as you want it to be. Introduction by Jordan Simmons, Director, East Bay Center for the Performing Arts. Science Remix Special Guests: Sarah Richardson, Ashley Gibb, Brett Singer, Alex Zettl and Paul Williams. Series: "Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory " [Science] [Show ID: 28274]
Berkeley Lab's Greg Bell discusses how big data is changing science, and how the Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) is playing a big role. Series: "Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory " [Science] [Show ID: 25466]
We're entering a new era in biology thanks to stunning images, powerful predictive tools, and a pioneering spirit. Four of Lawrence Berkeley National Lab scientists discuss what this means and what the future holds. Series: "Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory " [Science] [Show ID: 25873]
Part of the Behind the Scenes series at Berkeley Lab, this video highlights the lab's mechanical fabrication facility and its exceptional ability to produce unique tools essential to the lab's scientific mission. Through a combination of skilled craftsmanship and precision equipment, machinists and engineers work with scientists to create exactly what's needed -- whether it's measured in microns or meters. Series: "Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory " [Science] [Show ID: 25874]
Explore the latest projections about the extent of planetary warming and the dire consequences of our growing carbon imbalance. Tune in to hear presentations by Lawrence Berkeley Lab climate scientists Bill Collins, Margaret Torn, Michael Wehner, and Jeff Chambers, as well as UC Berkeley economist Max Aufhammer. Series: "Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory " [Science] [Show ID: 25473]
Seven Berkeley Lab scientists present BIG ideas. Learn about the game-changing concepts scientists work on every day. Series: "Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory " [Science] [Show ID: 25465]
Berkeley Lab's Bill Jagust discusses how scientists are working to detect the earliest signs of Alzheimer's, long before clinical symptoms appear. Series: "Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory " [Health and Medicine] [Science] [Show ID: 25469]
Berkeley Lab's Aindrila Mukhopadhyay discusses how scientists are learning how microbes interact with their environment and each other. The goal is to predict how they'll respond to various stimuli, with applications ranging from bioremediation to biofuels. Series: "Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory " [Science] [Show ID: 25468]
Ron Zuckermann discusses how scientists are developing synthetic proteins that can be used for new kinds of materials. Series: "Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory " [Science] [Show ID: 25471]
Berkeley Lab's David Schlegel discusses what's next in the quest to understand dark energy. Series: "Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory " [Science] [Show ID: 25470]
Berkeley Lab astrophysicists and Nobel laureates, George Smoot and Saul Perlmutter -- joined by Berkeley Lab physicist Eric Linder and UC anthropologist Gerardo Aldana -- explore the cultural and scientific connections between Mayan astronomers and modern cosmologists as they look to the skies for answers to how the universe evolved, how it might end, and our place in it. The fundamental human curiosity about our origins and fate, a quest that persists across time and cultures, has been enriched by recent discoveries about dark energy, the Big Bang, and the accelerating universe. New knowledge has only increased our sense of wonder about the cosmos and deepened our appreciation for what the Mayans achieved using only the naked eye. Series: "Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory " [Show ID: 25370]
Blake Simmons discusses how plants and microbes can be used to replace many of the everyday goods we use that are derived from petroleum. Series: "Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory " [Science] [Show ID: 25467]
Berkeley Lab's Mina Bissell discusses her pioneering research on how the cellular micro-environment affects cancer. Series: "Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory " [Health and Medicine] [Science] [Show ID: 25472]
Vince Battaglia leads a behind-the-scenes tour of Berkeley Lab's BATT, the Batteries for Advanced Transportation Technologies Program, where researchers aim to improve batteries upon which the range, efficiency, and power of tomorrow's electric cars will depend. Series: "Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory " [Show ID: 25371]
Dynamic, energy efficient windows can play a huge role in reducing energy consumption, reducing energy costs, and improving lighting and heating conditions in buildings, -and the research being done at Berkeley Lab is leading the way. Learn about the team research on Smart Windows underway at Berkeley Lab featuring Delia Milliron, from the Molecular Foundry, Andre Anders, of the Accelerator and Fusion Research Division, and Howdy Goudey, from the Buildings Energy Efficiency Program. Series: "Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory " [Show ID: 25369]
Calls for breakthroughs in science and technology have never been louder, and yet the demand for innovation is made more challenging by public and political misconceptions surrounding where, when, and how it happens. Professor Andrew Hargadon uses historical research to advance our current understanding of the innovation process. He discussed the social and technical context in which electric light, and the modern electric power infrastructure, were born and consider its implications for managing innovation in science and technology today. Series: "Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory " [Science] [Business] [Show ID: 24976]
Scientist discuss the recently launched LBNL Institute for Globally Transformative Technologies (LIGTT) at Berkeley Lab. LIGTT is an ambitious mandate to discover and develop breakthrough technologies for combating global poverty. Explore fuel efficient stoves for clean cooking, the ultra-low energy refrigerator, the solar OB suitcase: A low-cost package of the five most critical biomedical devices for maternal and neonatal clinics and the UV Waterworks, a device for quickly, safely and inexpensively disinfecting water of harmful microorganisms. Series: "Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory " [Science] [Show ID: 24903]
Berkeley Lab's Science at the Theater traveled across the Bay to San Francisco's Herbst Theater for a star turn by two of the Lab's Nobel laureates. George Smoot received the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics for the "discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation." Saul Perlmutter received the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics for "for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae." The host for the conversation was KQED's Michael Krasny. Series: "Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory " [Science] [Show ID: 24902]
Shashi Buluswar, the executive director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab’s Institute for Globally Transformative Technologies (LIGTT), chats with Jeff Miller, head of Public Affairs. LIGTT’s mandate is to foster the discovery, development, and deployment of a generation of low-carbon, affordable technologies that will advance sustainable methods to fight global poverty. Series: "Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory " [Science] [Show ID: 24391]
Kathy Yelick, Associate Berkeley Lab Director for Computing Sciences, an organization that advances computational science throughout lab’s research programs, chats with Jeff Miller, head of Public Affairs. Series: "Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory " [Science] [Show ID: 24390]
Omar Yaghi, director of the Molecular Foundry, the nanoscience facility at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, talks with Jeff Miller, head of Public Affairs. Series: "Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory " [Science] [Show ID: 24389]
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory biological engineer Henrik Scheller chats with Sabin Russell, former San Francisco Chronicle reporter turned Berkeley Lab science writer. Scheller hopes to generate modified plants that are potentially more suitable for biofuel production. Series: "Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory " [Science] [Show ID: 22555]
Merrian Fuller from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Environmental Energy Technologies Division joins former San Francisco Chronicle reporter turned Berkeley Lab science writer Sabin Russell to discuss financing and deployment of energy efficiency and renewable energy. Series: "Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory " [Science] [Show ID: 22554]
Learn why Spencer Klein goes to the ends of the Earth to search for ghostly neutrinos in Antarctica. From Chernobyl to Central Asia, Tamas Torok travels the globe to study microbial diversity in extreme environments. Andrew Minor uses the world's most advanced electron microscopes to explore materials at ultrahigh stresses and in harsh environments. And microbes that talk to computers? Caroline Ajo-Franklin is pioneering cellular-electrical connections that could help transform sunlight into fuel. Series: "Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory " [Science] [Show ID: 23652]
With the apparent end of the Kyoto Protocol era at hand, the role of market forces to drive emission mitigation is entering an uncertain era. Marc Stuart, Founding Partner at Allotrope Partners, discusses what Kyoto accomplished and the lessons to be learned as we move to Carbon 2.0. Series: "Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory " [Public Affairs] [Science] [Show ID: 23614]
In a public talk in front of the Great Pyramid of Kukulcan at Chichen Itza, Berkeley Lab's Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist George Smoot discusses the remarkable precision that ancient Mayan astronomers achieved solely with the naked eye and comments on the significance of the approaching end of the current World Age of the 5,000-year-long Mayan Long-Count Calendar, due to conclude on the 2012 winter solstice. No, the end of the world is not at hand, Smoot says, but it's true that we're undergoing a fantastic transition in cosmology. The Mayan view of the universe was based on the sun and moon, a handful of planets, and a couple of thousand stars. Ours is an evolving cosmos reaching back over 13 billion years, based on a cornucopia of data accumulating almost daily and including hundreds of billions of galaxies. Series: "Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory " [Science] [Show ID: 23616]
Learn how the Advanced Light Source is improving medicine, paving the way for clean energy, changing the future of computers, and much more. Featured speakers are Berkeley Lab's Roger Falcone, Rachel Segalman, Andrew Westphal, and Stanford University's Axel Brunger. Series: "Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory " [Science] [Show ID: 23303]
Join the conversation with the Kansas-based Climate and Energy Project's founder and board chair, Nancy Jackson, and Berkeley Lab scientist Merrian Fuller, an electricity-market, policy and consumer behavior expert. In a state rife with climate-change skepticism, CEP has changed behavior, and some minds, by employing rural values of thrift, independence, conservation, and friendly competition to promote energy efficiency. Series: "Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory " [Science] [Show ID: 23302]
Learn how the hidden world just beneath the surface could hold the key to our climate and and energy future. Eoin Brodie explores how shifting rainfall patterns affect the soil and the carbon cycle. Janet Jansson looks at the potential of microbes in the soil to lead to better biofuels or to help scientists understand the planet’s carbon cycle. Margaret Torn examines what will happen to the carbon in soil as the climate changes. Trent Northen explores how soil microbes adapt to extreme environments. Moderated by John Harte, who holds a joint professorship in the Energy and Resources Group and the Ecosystem Sciences Division of UC Berkeley’s College of Natural Resources. Series: "Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory " [Science] [Show ID: 23269]
Hear from young nano-scientists who are doing research on developing new energy sources and materials that will help answer the question – “what will power our civilization as oil supplies dwindle?” Series: "Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory " [Science] [Show ID: 21567]
Is dark energy really accelerating the universe? Join Andrew Fraknoi and three Berkeley Lab cosmologists as they delve into nature’s greatest mystery. Greg Aldering explores type 1 supernovae. Shirley Ho measures the cosmos through baryon oscillation and Eric Linder asks out of the box questions about the cosmos; could it be something even stranger than dark energy driving the universe? Series: "Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory " [Science] [Show ID: 21566]
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ecologist and biogeochemist Margaret Torn chats with Sabin Russell, former San Francisco Chronicle reporter turned Berkeley Lab science writer. Torn studies the natural carbon cycle and human influence on the carbon cycle through land use and climate change. Series: "Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory " [Science] [Show ID: 22553]
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory battery scientist Venkat Srinivasan chats with Sabin Russell, former San Francisco Chronicle reporter turned Berkeley Lab science writer. They explore the problems that prevent lithium-ion batteries from being widely used in electric, hybrid-electric, and plug-in-hybrid-electric vehicles. Series: "Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory " [Science] [Show ID: 22552]
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory physicist and dark energy hunter David Schlegel chats with Sabin Russell, former San Francisco Chronicle reporter turned Berkeley Lab science writer. David Schlegel is an astrophysicist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the principal investigator of Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS), the largest of four night-sky surveys being conducted as part of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Series: "Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory " [Science] [Show ID: 22550]
The nuclear crisis in the aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan is confusing and frightening. Three Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory scientists - Thomas McKone, Edward Morse and Robert Budnitz - discuss the facts about radiation safety and risks, detection and the implications for human health and the environment. Lance Knobel moderates Series: "Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory " [Public Affairs] [Science] [Show ID: 21582]
Berkeley Lab scientists discuss how white roofs can cool your building, your city ... and our planet, and the role of the other carbon -- black carbon -- in global warming. Series: "Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory " [Science] [Show ID: 20689]
Berkeley Lab scientists reveal the latest research on how to reduce your carbon footprint at home, work, and when you shop. Learn how even small choices can have a big impact. Series: "Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory " [Science] [Show ID: 20688]
Berkeley Lab scientists discuss how families in Africa using stoves designed by Berkeley Lab are at the forefront of global carbon reduction. Series: "Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory " [Science] [Show ID: 20690]
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab scientists Jeff Long of the Materials Sciences and Nancy Brown of the Environmental Energy Technologies Division discuss their efforts to fight climate change by capturing carbon from the flue gas of power plants, as well as directly from the air. Series: "Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory " [Science] [Show ID: 19662]
Juan Meza of the Computational Research Division reveals how scientists use computer visualizations to accelerate climate research and discuss the development of next-generation clean energy technologies such as wind turbines and solar cells. Series: "Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory " [Science] [Show ID: 19665]
Berkeley Lab researchers Delia Milliron of the Materials Sciences Division and Stephen Selkowitz of the Environmental Energy Technologies Division talk about their work on energy-saving smart windows. Series: "Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory " [Science] [Show ID: 19664]
Learn how Berkeley Lab scientists are developing wind turbines to be used in an urban setting, as well as analyzing what it will take to increase the adoption of wind energy in the U.S. Series: "Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory " [Science] [Show ID: 19663]
For millions of refugees in makeshift camps in the Darfur region of western Sudan, collecting firewood for their cooking stoves is difficult, dangerous, and the stoves produces a great deal of carbon dioxide. After visiting the region, researchers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory with students at the University of California, Berkeley and volunteers from Engineers Without Borders developed the “Berkeley-Darfur Stove”, a stove four times more fuel efficient than the 3-stone fires traditionally used in Darfur. Series: "Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory " [Science] [Show ID: 19661]
Learn what it will take to create tomorrow's net-zero energy home as Lawrence Berkeley National lab scientists reveal the secrets of cool roofs, smart windows, and computer-driven energy control systems. Iain Walker will explores net-zero energy houses that generate as much energy as they use. Mary Ann Piette discusses how new technologies are enabling buildings to listen to the grid and adjust demands based on fluctuating electricity prices. Bruce Nordman explores digital networks that will allow homeowners to save energy. Series: "Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory " [Science] [Show ID: 19343]
Lawrence Berkeley National Labs explores three efforts: cheap solar energy, storing carbon deep underground, and energy efficiency in China. Ramamoorthy Ramesh discusses research to make photovoltaic cells using the most abundant elements in the Earth's crust -- materials that are literally as common as dirt. Nan Zhou expliores China’s energy use and the policies that have been implemented to increase energy efficiency and reduce CO2 emission growth. Curt Oldenburg discusses a strategy to reduce carbon emissions from coal and natural gas. Series: "Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory " [Science] [Show ID: 19342]
No mystery is bigger than dark energy — the elusive force that makes up three-quarters of the Universe and is causing it to expand at an accelerating rate. Join a panel of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory scientists who use phenomena such as exploding stars and gravitational lenses to explore the dark cosmos. Series: "Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory " [Science] [Show ID: 17426]
A new breed of biofuels may help solve the global energy challenge and reduce the impact of fossil fuels on global warming. Hear from a panel of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory scientists who are developing ways to convert the solar energy stored in plants into liquid fuels. Series: "Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory " [Science] [Show ID: 17427]
Climate change provides strong motivation to reduce CO2 emissions from the burning of fossil fuels. Carbon dioxide capture and storage involves the capture, compression, and transport of CO2 to geologically favorable areas, where it’s injected into porous rock more than one kilometer underground for permanent storage. Curt Oldenburg, who heads Berkeley Lab’s Geologic Carbon Sequestration Program, focuses on the challenges, opportunities, and research needs of this innovative technology. Series: "Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory " [Science] [Show ID: 17050]
By exploiting the powers of nanotechnology and taking advantage of nontoxic, Earth-abundant materials, Berkeley Lab's Cyrus Wadia has fabricated new solar cell devices that have the potential to be several orders of magnitude less expensive than conventional solar cells. And, by mastering the chemistry of these materials—and the economics of solar energy—he envisions bringing electricity to the 1.2 billion people now living without it. Series: "Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory " [Science] [Show ID: 16917]
Great innovations start with bold ideas. Join a roundtable discussion with five Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory scientists discuss how technologies they have developed are improving the world. Todd DeSantis: Pocket-sized DNA probe. Carl Haber: Preserving history one recording at a time. Nitash Balsara: battery powered commute? Hashem Akbari: Could your roof cool the world? Katherine Yelick: Supercomputers for a greener world. Series: "Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory " [Science] [Show ID: 16916]
Terry Hazen discusses when it’s best to resort to engineered bioremediation of contaminated sites, and when it’s best to rely on natural attenuation. Recent advances have greatly broadened the potential applications for bioremediation. At the same time, scientists’ knowledge of biogeochemical processes has advanced and they can better gauge how quickly and completely contaminants can be degraded without human intervention. Series: "Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory " [Science] [Show ID: 13004]
Bill Collins discusses how observations show that the Earth is warming at a rate unprecedented in recent history, and that human-induced changes in atmospheric chemistry are probably the main culprits. He suggests a need for better observations and understanding of the carbon and hydrological cycles. Series: "Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory " [Science] [Show ID: 13003]
Don Glaser won the 1960 Nobel Prize for Physics for his 1952 invention of the bubble chamber at Berkeley Lab, a type of particle detector that became the mainstay of high-energy physics research throughout the 1960s and 1970s. He discusses how, inspired by bubbles in a glass of beer, he invented the bubble chamber and detected cosmic-ray muons. Series: "Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory " [Science] [Show ID: 11831]
If scientists could take advantage of the awesomely complex and beautiful functioning of biology’s natural molecular machines, their potential for application in many disciplines would be incalculable. Nobel Laureate and Director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Steve Chu explores Possible solutions to global warming and its consequences. Series: "Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory " [Science] [Show ID: 11023]