http://newscenter.berkeley.edu News from the University of California, Berkeley Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:00:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/10/04/saul-perlmutter-awarded-2011-nobel-prize-in-physics/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/10/04/saul-perlmutter-awarded-2011-nobel-prize-in-physics/#comments Tue, 04 Oct 2011 10:38:59 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=17379 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."]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/10/04/saul-perlmutter-awarded-2011-nobel-prize-in-physics/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2010/11/05/metamaterials_acoustic_imaging/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2010/11/05/metamaterials_acoustic_imaging/#comments Fri, 05 Nov 2010 20:22:07 +0000 Steve McConnell http://dev-newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=1169 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. ]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2010/11/05/metamaterials_acoustic_imaging/feed/ 0