The ALS’s next long shutdown period will commence in January, giving staff and technicians a chance to complete work critical to keeping the ALS at the scientific forefront. Between January 3 and March 20, 2017, the ALS will be closed to users so that facility, beamline, and accelerator upgrades and maintenance can be accomplished. Read more »
ALSNews Vol. 378
DECEMBER 14, 2016
ALS in the News (Dec 2016)
- 7 Imaging Tools Pushing Science Forward
- Finding Diamonds in the Rough
- CRISPR Pioneers Runners Up for Time Magazine’s Person of the Year
- Nanogeometry
- Glowing Crystals Can Detect, Cleanse Contaminated Drinking Water
- Scientists Trace ‘Poisoning’ in Chemical Reactions to the Atomic Scale
- X-Rays Capture Unprecedented Images of Photosynthesis in Action
- Five Berkeley Lab Scientists Named AAAS Fellows
- 3-D Imaging Technique Maps Migration of DNA-carrying Material at the Center of Cells
- Molecular structure in Zika virus leads to potentially disease-causing RNAs
- Solar Cells Get Boost with Integration of Water-Splitting Catalyst onto Semiconductor
- Berkeley Lab Takes Home Five R&D 100 Awards for Environmental, Battery, and X-ray Technologies
- Lehigh scientists fabricate a new class of crystalline solid
- Miquel Salmeron Wins 2016 Berkeley Lab Prize — Lifetime Achievement Award