http://newscenter.berkeley.edu News from the University of California, Berkeley Sat, 18 May 2013 20:48:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/05/09/heady-mathematics-describing-popping-bubbles-in-a-foam/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/05/09/heady-mathematics-describing-popping-bubbles-in-a-foam/#comments Thu, 09 May 2013 18:00:30 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=34624 Applied mathematicians James Sethian and Robert Saye from UC Berkeley and Berkeley Lab have discovered a way to mathematically describe the evolution of bubbles in a foam, and have used the equations to create a computer-generated video showing how the process proceeds. ]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/05/09/heady-mathematics-describing-popping-bubbles-in-a-foam/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/04/30/is-antimatter-anti-gravity/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/04/30/is-antimatter-anti-gravity/#comments Tue, 30 Apr 2013 15:00:46 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=34391 Most physicists suspect that antimatter and normal matter weigh the same, that is, they are affected the same way by gravity. No direct measurements exist, however, that prove they do. UC Berkeley scientists, part of the ALPHA collaboration at CERN, are working on just such an experiment and have some very rough results.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/04/30/is-antimatter-anti-gravity/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/04/25/may-3-public-talk-by-fabiola-gianotti-co-discoverer-of-higgs-boson/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/04/25/may-3-public-talk-by-fabiola-gianotti-co-discoverer-of-higgs-boson/#comments Thu, 25 Apr 2013 18:50:49 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=34346 Physicist Fabiola Gianotti, co-discoverer of the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, Switzerland, will deliver a free public lecture, “The Higgs Boson and Our Life.” The talk is part of a 3-day celebration of UC Berkeley physicist Bruno Zumino, whose theory of supersymmetry has emerged as a possible explanation for the variety of fundamental particles seen in nature.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/04/25/may-3-public-talk-by-fabiola-gianotti-co-discoverer-of-higgs-boson/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/04/24/ten-uc-berkeley-faculty-named-to-american-academy-of-arts-sciences/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/04/24/ten-uc-berkeley-faculty-named-to-american-academy-of-arts-sciences/#comments Wed, 24 Apr 2013 17:17:28 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=34527 Ten Berkeley professors have been named members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a prestigious 233-year-old honorary society of national leaders from academia, business, public affairs and the humanities.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/04/24/ten-uc-berkeley-faculty-named-to-american-academy-of-arts-sciences/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2013/03/07/atomic-collapse-graphene/ http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2013/03/07/atomic-collapse-graphene/#comments Thu, 07 Mar 2013 19:28:53 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=34147 Berkeley physicist Michael Crommie has demonstrated in graphene a strange behavior predicted more than 60 years ago and which holds important implications for the future of graphene-based electronic devices. He and colleagues have imaged the “atomic collapse” states theorized to occur around super-large atomic nuclei.]]> http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2013/03/07/atomic-collapse-graphene/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/03/01/physics-nobelist-and-biotech-pioneer-donald-glaser-dies-at-86/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/03/01/physics-nobelist-and-biotech-pioneer-donald-glaser-dies-at-86/#comments Fri, 01 Mar 2013 18:05:59 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=34105 Donald Glaser, a Nobel-prize winning physicist who reinvented himself as a biotech pioneer and later dove into the field of neurobiology, died in his sleep Thursday morning, Feb. 28, at his home in Berkeley. Glaser, a professor emeritus of physics and of molecular and cell biology, was 86.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/03/01/physics-nobelist-and-biotech-pioneer-donald-glaser-dies-at-86/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/01/10/a-rock-is-a-clock-physicist-uses-matter-to-tell-time/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/01/10/a-rock-is-a-clock-physicist-uses-matter-to-tell-time/#comments Thu, 10 Jan 2013 18:59:20 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=33787 What is the simplest, most fundamental clock? UC Berkeley physicist Holger Müller and his colleagues have shown that a single atom is sufficient to measure time. Conversely, the frequency of matter can be used to define its mass.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/01/10/a-rock-is-a-clock-physicist-uses-matter-to-tell-time/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2013/01/09/scp0401-farthest-yet/ http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2013/01/09/scp0401-farthest-yet/#comments Wed, 09 Jan 2013 19:27:31 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=33801 The Supernova Cosmology Project, based at Berkeley Lab and headed by UC Berkeley physicist and Nobel Laureate Saul Perlmutter, has discovered the most distant supernova yet that can be used in cosmological studies. Announced at the American Astronomical Society meeting, it will help answer questions about dark energy and the fate of the universe.]]> http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2013/01/09/scp0401-farthest-yet/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stories/2012/12/24/president-obama-honors-berkeley-lab%E2%80%99s-art-rosenfeld-as-one-of-the-nation%E2%80%99s-top-technology-innovators/ http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stories/2012/12/24/president-obama-honors-berkeley-lab%E2%80%99s-art-rosenfeld-as-one-of-the-nation%E2%80%99s-top-technology-innovators/#comments Wed, 26 Dec 2012 17:15:15 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=33738 On Dec. 21, President Barack Obama named UC Berkeley and LBNL physicist Arthur Rosenfeld one of this year's 11 recipients of the National Medal of Technology and Innovation. The annual award honors the nation's top inventors. Rosenfeld is often called the "godfather of energy efficiency" because of his pioneering work on reducing the nation's energy usage.]]> http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stories/2012/12/24/president-obama-honors-berkeley-lab%E2%80%99s-art-rosenfeld-as-one-of-the-nation%E2%80%99s-top-technology-innovators/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2012/12/04/moore-foundation-bigboss/ http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2012/12/04/moore-foundation-bigboss/#comments Wed, 05 Dec 2012 15:50:29 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=33571 A $2.1 million grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to the Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics will fund revolutionary technologies that the proposed BigBOSS project will use to study dark energy with unprecedented precision. BigBOSS, based at Berkeley Lab, will probe the expansion history of the universe, says BCCP director Uros Seljak. professor of physics.]]> http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2012/12/04/moore-foundation-bigboss/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/11/21/robert-lin-uc-berkeley-pioneer-in-experimental-space-physics-dies-at-70/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/11/21/robert-lin-uc-berkeley-pioneer-in-experimental-space-physics-dies-at-70/#comments Wed, 21 Nov 2012 21:25:27 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=33512 Physicist Robert Peichung Lin, a former director of the Space Sciences Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, who designed and built dozens of instruments to study solar flares, the magnetic fields on the surface of the moon and Mars and the plasma environment of Earth, died suddenly of a stroke on Saturday, Nov. 17.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/11/21/robert-lin-uc-berkeley-pioneer-in-experimental-space-physics-dies-at-70/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/10/09/nobelist-in-physics-got-his-start-at-berkeley/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/10/09/nobelist-in-physics-got-his-start-at-berkeley/#comments Tue, 09 Oct 2012 16:50:09 +0000 Public Affairs http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=33182 An American physicist who shared today's Nobel Prize in Physics earned his bachelor of arts degree from UC Berkeley in 1965.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/10/09/nobelist-in-physics-got-his-start-at-berkeley/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/10/05/grants-help-scientists-explore-border-between-science-science-fiction/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/10/05/grants-help-scientists-explore-border-between-science-science-fiction/#comments Mon, 01 Oct 2012 17:54:57 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=33047 Astronomer Geoff Marcy and cosmologist and string theorist Raphael Bousso are among 20 scientists awarded research grants to explore innovative and edgy areas of science. In the case of Marcy and Bousso, these areas are on the border between science and science fiction.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/10/05/grants-help-scientists-explore-border-between-science-science-fiction/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/10/02/nobel-laureate-and-alum-adam-reiss-to-discuss-dark-energy/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/10/02/nobel-laureate-and-alum-adam-reiss-to-discuss-dark-energy/#comments Tue, 02 Oct 2012 18:41:03 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=32681 Nobel Laureate and alumnus Adam G. Riess will give a free public talk at UC Berkeley about groundbreaking research on the expansion of the universe and its implications for dark energy. ]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/10/02/nobel-laureate-and-alum-adam-reiss-to-discuss-dark-energy/feed/ 0 https://news.slac.stanford.edu/features/panofsky-prize-honors-researchers-underground-hunt-dark-matter https://news.slac.stanford.edu/features/panofsky-prize-honors-researchers-underground-hunt-dark-matter#comments Thu, 27 Sep 2012 22:48:11 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=33096 The 2013 Panofsky Prize in Experimental Particle Physics was awarded jointly to UC Berkeley physicist Bernard Sadoulet and Stanford's Blas Cabrera for their development of new techniques for searching for weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPS), the most popular candidate for the unseen dark matter that permeates the universe.]]> https://news.slac.stanford.edu/features/panofsky-prize-honors-researchers-underground-hunt-dark-matter/feed/ 0 http://english.tau.ac.il/news/sackler_prize_in_biophysics_2012 http://english.tau.ac.il/news/sackler_prize_in_biophysics_2012#comments Thu, 13 Sep 2012 21:02:55 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=32950 Carlos Bustamante will share the Raymond and Beverly International Sackler Prize in Biophysics for his "seminal contributions to single molecule biophysics.". Bustamante is a professor of molecular and cell biology, physics and chemistry, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator and member of the California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences.]]> http://english.tau.ac.il/news/sackler_prize_in_biophysics_2012/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/07/31/cinema-among-tiny-cubesats-to-be-launched-aug-2/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/07/31/cinema-among-tiny-cubesats-to-be-launched-aug-2/#comments Tue, 31 Jul 2012 16:53:00 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=32527 CINEMA, a tiny nanosatellite designed and built by students at UC Berkeley, is scheduled for launch on Aug. 2. Once in Earth orbit, it will monitor the movement of charged particles in the atmosphere that can disrupt power grids on the ground.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/07/31/cinema-among-tiny-cubesats-to-be-launched-aug-2/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/07/24/theoretical-astrophysicist-receives-500000-no-strings-attached/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/07/24/theoretical-astrophysicist-receives-500000-no-strings-attached/#comments Tue, 24 Jul 2012 16:15:23 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=32403 The Simons Foundation of New York initiated a new program of Simons Investigators this year, awarding 21 mathematicians, theoretical physicists and theoretical computer scientists $100,000 per year for 5-10 years, no strings attached. Theoretical astrophysicist Eliot Quataert was one of them.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/07/24/theoretical-astrophysicist-receives-500000-no-strings-attached/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/07/17/higgs-fever-overflow-crowd-hears-about-new-elementary-particle/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/07/17/higgs-fever-overflow-crowd-hears-about-new-elementary-particle/#comments Tue, 17 Jul 2012 15:45:49 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=32401 A July 13 lecture and panel discussion drew overflow crowds to hear about the newly discovered Higgs boson. Physicists Beate Heinemann and Lawrence Hall explained the theory and experiment behind this "third" kind of stuff, while three others explored the implications of the discovery.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/07/17/higgs-fever-overflow-crowd-hears-about-new-elementary-particle/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/07/12/discovery-opens-door-to-attacking-biofilms-that-cause-chronic-infections/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/07/12/discovery-opens-door-to-attacking-biofilms-that-cause-chronic-infections/#comments Thu, 12 Jul 2012 18:00:06 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=32327 Using super-resolution microscopy and continuous fluorescent imaging, UC Berkeley physicists have for the first time revealed the structure of bacterial biofilms, which are responsible for the tenacious nature of bacterial diseases such as cholera and chronic sinusitus. The picture provides new targets for the development of drugs that can tear down these structures.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/07/12/discovery-opens-door-to-attacking-biofilms-that-cause-chronic-infections/feed/ 0