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Saul Perlmutter awarded 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics with video

Saul Perlmutter awarded 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics October 4, 2011:

Saul Perlmutter, UC Berkeley professor of physics and LBNL senior scientist, will share the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics with two other scientists, including former UC Berkeley postdoc Adam Riess, for their discovery that the expansion of the universe is accelerating. This discovery in 1998 led to the realization that the universe is largely composed of an enigmatic “dark energy.”

Novel metamaterial vastly improves quality of ultrasound imaging

Novel metamaterial vastly improves quality of ultrasound imaging November 5, 2010:

New “metamaterials” can overcome some of the limitations of microscopes and imagers, including ultrasound imagers. Researchers in the Nano-scale Science & Engineering Center have come up with a metamaterial to improve the picture quality of ultrasound by a factor of 50.