Category: Science News

Berkeley Lab researchers have turned parts of a 13,000-mile-long testbed of “dark fiber,” unused fiber-optic cable, into a highly sensitive seismic activity sensor that could potentially augment the performance of earthquake early warning systems being developed in the western United States. https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2019/02/05/dark-fiber-lays-groundwork-for-long-distance-earthquake-detection-and-groundwater-mapping/

A process to select the insertion-device beamlines that will be built and upgraded within the scope of the ALS-U Project has recently concluded. ALS-U Project Director Dave Robin announces the outcome. https://als.lbl.gov/project-director-dave-robin-announces-als-u-project-beamlines/

In six of the seven facilities of the Molecular Foundry scientists at benches or instruments are hard at work creating and characterizing nanoscale materials. Sandwiched in between those levels of laboratories is a different kind of lab — computing — with a workspace of offices and cubicles. 

​Berkeley Lab, RIKEN, and UC Berkeley are co-hosting a workshop on quantum information science that focuses on the development of quantum computing techniques, quantum materials, and quantum sensing, as well as their applications to physical sciences.