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May 22 | News
A
team of engineers at the University of California, Berkeley have
developed a way to keep tabs on pipeline health by using a magnetic
resonance imaging machine similar to the ones used in hospitals. Their
technology is called the Magnetic Response Imaging System (MRIS), and it
will be able to look at the state of underground pipelines.
May 17 | News
In
a recent project that has challenged the notion that the best chip is
the most accurate one, a research team has unveiled this week its
prototype “inexact” computer chip. By allowing the chip to make a few
mistakes, developers were able to slash the power consumption of the
chip dramatically. The result is a chip at least 15 times more efficient
than today’s technology.
May 14 | News
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory scientists have developed a way to generate power using harmless viruses that convert mechanical energy into electricity. The milestone could lead to tiny devices that harvest electrical energy from the vibrations of everyday tasks. It also points to a simpler way to make microelectronic devices.
May 10 | News
A fleet of 100 floating robots took a trip down the Sacramento River in a field test organized by engineers at the University of California, Berkeley. The smartphone-equipped floating robots demonstrated the next generation of water monitoring technology, promising to transform the way government agencies monitor one of the state's most precious resources.
Apr 27 | News
Scientists with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California, Berkeley have directed the first self-assembly of nanoparticles into device-ready materials. Through a relatively easy and inexpensive technique based on blending nanoparticles with block co-polymer supramolecules, the researchers produced multiple-layers of thin films from highly ordered 1D, 2D, and 3D arrays of gold nanoparticles.
Apr 22 | News
According
to a new study from researchers at the University of California,
Berkeley and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the virulence of
plant-borne diseases depends on not just the particular strain of a
pathogen, but on where the pathogen has been before landing in its host.
The study demonstrates that the pattern of gene regulation, not just
gene make-up, plays a big role in the aggressiveness of a microbe.
Apr 20 | News
Theoretically,
a solar cell can achieve 33.5% efficiency under ideal conditions, but
until now researchers had hit only 26%. This past year, a company called
Alta Devices acted on the theory that emission and voltage go
hand-in-hand by creating solar cell that acts like a light-emitting
diode. Its prototype broke the record, achieving 28.3% efficiency.
Apr 19 | News
Scientists
at the National Center for Electron Microscopy have created the
first-ever atomic-scale real-time movie of nanocrystal growth in liquid.
The movie, which shows nanoparticles of platinum diffusing in liquid
then coalescing into crystals, was made possible with TEAM I, the
world’s most powerful microscope.
Apr 18 | News
A
team of researchers from Taiwan and the University of California,
Berkeley, has harnessed nanodots, just 3 nm in diameter, to create a new
electronic memory technology that can write and erase data 10 to 100
times faster than today's mainstream charge-storage memory products.
Apr 12 | News
Scientists
in Korea and California have developed a technology that can observe
processes occurring in liquid media on a scale of less than a nanometer.
Their invention is a graphene liquid cell or capsule, confining an
ultra-thin liquid film between layers of graphene. With a transmission
electron microscope, nanoscale processes in fluids can be seen with
atomic-level resolution.
