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Nanoelectronics <span class="more"></span></a></h2> <div class="DateAuthors"> <span class="Date">December 22, 2009</span> </div> <p class="Summary">Researchers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's (Berkeley Lab) Molecular Foundry and Columbia University found that electrical resistance through a molecular junction—a nanometer scale circuit element consisting of a single molecule contacted with gold wires—can be turned on and off by simply pushing and pulling the junction. Experts believe that this newly demonstrated molecular-scale control could be leveraged for future nanoscale electronic devices. <a href="/news-publications/nersc-news/science-news/2009/nersc-helps-researchers-discover-a-potential-on-off-switch-for-nanoelectronics/" title="NERSC Helps Researchers Discover a Potential On-Off Switch for Nanoelectronics " class="more">Read More »</a></p> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </div> <div class="index-list-item "> <div class="thumbnail"> <a href="/news-publications/nersc-news/science-news/2009/nersc-continues-tradition-of-cosmic-microwave-background-data-analysis-with-the-planck-cluster/" title="NERSC Continues Tradition of Cosmic Microwave Background Data Analysis with the Planck Cluster"><img width="100" height="100" alt="PLANCK.jpg" src="/assets/NewsImages/PLANCK__FillWzEwMCwxMDBd.jpg" loading="lazy" /> </a> </div> <div class="list-text"> <h2 class="article-list-title"><a href="/news-publications/nersc-news/science-news/2009/nersc-continues-tradition-of-cosmic-microwave-background-data-analysis-with-the-planck-cluster/" title="NERSC Continues Tradition of Cosmic Microwave Background Data Analysis with the Planck Cluster">NERSC Continues Tradition of Cosmic Microwave Background Data Analysis with the Planck Cluster<span class="more"></span></a></h2> <div class="DateAuthors"> <span class="Date">October 30, 2009</span> </div> <p class="Summary">More than 95 percent of our universe is made up of mysteriously "dark" materials—approximately 22 percent of it is comprised of invisible dark matter, while another 73 percent is posited to be dark energy, the force that is accelerating universal expansion. Armed with a new spacecraft called Planck and supercomputers at the Department of Energy's (DOE) National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), astronomers around the world hope to make tremendous strides toward illuminating the nature and origins of these mystifying materials by creating high-resolution maps of extremely subtle variations in the temperature and polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), which is leftover light from the Big Bang that permeates the universe. <a href="/news-publications/nersc-news/science-news/2009/nersc-continues-tradition-of-cosmic-microwave-background-data-analysis-with-the-planck-cluster/" title="NERSC Continues Tradition of Cosmic Microwave Background Data Analysis with the Planck Cluster" class="more">Read More »</a></p> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </div> <div class="index-list-item "> <div class="thumbnail"> <a href="/news-publications/nersc-news/science-news/2009/it-s-not-too-late/" title="It's Not Too Late to Change Global Warming's Course"><img width="100" height="100" alt="mitigation1.jpg" src="/assets/NewsImages/mitigation1__FillWzEwMCwxMDBd.jpg" loading="lazy" /> </a> </div> <div class="list-text"> <h2 class="article-list-title"><a href="/news-publications/nersc-news/science-news/2009/it-s-not-too-late/" title="It's Not Too Late to Change Global Warming's Course">It's Not Too Late to Change Global Warming's Course<span class="more"></span></a></h2> <div class="DateAuthors"> <span class="Date">October 27, 2009</span> </div> <p class="Summary">The threat of global warming can still be greatly diminished if nations cut emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gases by 70 percent this century, according to a study led by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). While global temperatures would rise, the most dangerous potential aspects of climate change, including massive losses of Arctic sea ice and permafrost and significant sea level rise, could be partially avoided. <a href="/news-publications/nersc-news/science-news/2009/it-s-not-too-late/" title="It's Not Too Late to Change Global Warming's Course" class="more">Read More »</a></p> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </div> <div class="index-list-item "> <div class="thumbnail"> <a href="/news-publications/nersc-news/science-news/2009/lasers-without-mirrors-designed-by-supercomputer/" title="Lasers without Mirrors, Designed by Supercomputer"><img width="100" height="100" alt="Color graph compares large-scale simulations" src="/assets/Uploads/felschematic__FillWzEwMCwxMDBd.jpeg" loading="lazy" /> </a> </div> <div class="list-text"> <h2 class="article-list-title"><a href="/news-publications/nersc-news/science-news/2009/lasers-without-mirrors-designed-by-supercomputer/" title="Lasers without Mirrors, Designed by Supercomputer">Lasers without Mirrors, Designed by Supercomputer<span class="more"></span></a></h2> <div class="DateAuthors"> <span class="Date">October 14, 2009</span> </div> <p class="Summary">Sometimes it takes a big machine to understand the tiniest details. That’s the case with free electron lasers (FELs). FELs have the potential to address a host of research challenges in physics, chemistry and material and biological sciences. <a href="/news-publications/nersc-news/science-news/2009/lasers-without-mirrors-designed-by-supercomputer/" title="Lasers without Mirrors, Designed by Supercomputer" class="more">Read More »</a></p> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </div> <div class="index-list-item "> <div class="thumbnail"> <a href="/news-publications/nersc-news/science-news/2009/nersc-contributes-to-emgeo-mapping-software-for-finding-hidden-oil-and-gas-reserves/" title="NERSC Contributes to EMGeo Mapping Software for Finding Hidden Oil and Gas Reserves"><img width="100" height="100" alt="newmanMED.jpg" src="/assets/NewsImages/newmanMED__FillWzEwMCwxMDBd.jpg" loading="lazy" /> </a> </div> <div class="list-text"> <h2 class="article-list-title"><a href="/news-publications/nersc-news/science-news/2009/nersc-contributes-to-emgeo-mapping-software-for-finding-hidden-oil-and-gas-reserves/" title="NERSC Contributes to EMGeo Mapping Software for Finding Hidden Oil and Gas Reserves">NERSC Contributes to EMGeo Mapping Software for Finding Hidden Oil and Gas Reserves<span class="more"></span></a></h2> <div class="DateAuthors"> <span class="Date">September 30, 2009</span> </div> <p class="Summary">As the world's demand for energy increases, billions of dollars are dedicated to the search for deep-water hydrocarbon reservoirs each year. Although seismic imaging methods have long been used to collect valuable information on geological structures bearing hydrocarbon deposits, they have not proven effective in discriminating different types of reservoir fluids, such as brines, oil, and gas. Because of this inability to discriminate, over time huge financial losses result from drilling dry holes—up to 100 million dollars per each unsuccessful drilling. Meanwhile significant hydrocarbon reservoirs remain undiscovered. <a href="/news-publications/nersc-news/science-news/2009/nersc-contributes-to-emgeo-mapping-software-for-finding-hidden-oil-and-gas-reserves/" title="NERSC Contributes to EMGeo Mapping Software for Finding Hidden Oil and Gas Reserves" class="more">Read More »</a></p> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </div> <div class="index-list-item "> <div class="thumbnail"> <a href="/news-publications/nersc-news/science-news/2009/nersc-helps-discover-cosmic-transients/" title="NERSC Helps Discover Cosmic Transients"><img width="100" height="100" alt="False-color image of the Andromeda Galaxy" src="/assets/M31__FillWzEwMCwxMDBd.png" loading="lazy" /> </a> </div> <div class="list-text"> <h2 class="article-list-title"><a href="/news-publications/nersc-news/science-news/2009/nersc-helps-discover-cosmic-transients/" title="NERSC Helps Discover Cosmic Transients">NERSC Helps Discover Cosmic Transients<span class="more"></span></a></h2> <div class="DateAuthors"> <span class="Date">June 15, 2009</span> </div> <p class="Summary">An innovative new sky survey, called the Palomar Transient Factory (PTF), will utilize the unique tools and services offered by the Department of Energy's (DOE) National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (Berkeley Lab) to expose relatively rare and fleeting cosmic events, like supernovae and gamma ray bursts. <a href="/news-publications/nersc-news/science-news/2009/nersc-helps-discover-cosmic-transients/" title="NERSC Helps Discover Cosmic Transients" class="more">Read More »</a></p> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </div> <div class="index-list-item "> <div class="thumbnail"> <a href="/news-publications/nersc-news/science-news/2009/visualizing-the-future-of-scientific-discovery/" title="Visualizing the Future of Scientific Discovery"><img width="100" height="100" alt="Color volume rendering of supernova simulation data" src="/assets/NewsImages/2009/snVolRender-3__FillWzEwMCwxMDBd.png" loading="lazy" /> </a> </div> <div class="list-text"> <h2 class="article-list-title"><a href="/news-publications/nersc-news/science-news/2009/visualizing-the-future-of-scientific-discovery/" title="Visualizing the Future of Scientific Discovery">Visualizing the Future of Scientific Discovery<span class="more"></span></a></h2> <div class="DateAuthors"> <span class="Date">June 11, 2009</span> </div> <p class="Summary">As computational scientists are confronted with increasingly massive datasets from supercomputing simulations and experiments, one of the biggest challenges is having the right tools to gain scientific insight from the data.A team of Department of Energy (DOE) researchers recently ran a series of experiments to determine whether VisIt, a leading scientific visualization application, is up to the challenge. Running on some of the world's most powerful supercomputers, VisIt achieved unprecedented… <a href="/news-publications/nersc-news/science-news/2009/visualizing-the-future-of-scientific-discovery/" title="Visualizing the Future of Scientific Discovery" class="more">Read More »</a></p> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </div> <div class="index-list-item "> <div class="thumbnail"> <a href="/news-publications/nersc-news/science-news/2009/nersc-and-crd-help-decipher-science-from-compact-accelerator-simulations/" title="NERSC and CRD Help Decipher Science from Compact Accelerator Simulations"><img width="100" height="100" alt="Color visualization of electrons moving from left to right in the LOASIS experiment" src="/assets/NewsImages/2009/LPAmed__FillWzEwMCwxMDBd.png" loading="lazy" /> </a> </div> <div class="list-text"> <h2 class="article-list-title"><a href="/news-publications/nersc-news/science-news/2009/nersc-and-crd-help-decipher-science-from-compact-accelerator-simulations/" title="NERSC and CRD Help Decipher Science from Compact Accelerator Simulations">NERSC and CRD Help Decipher Science from Compact Accelerator Simulations<span class="more"></span></a></h2> <div class="DateAuthors"> <span class="Date">May 26, 2009</span> </div> <p class="Summary">Scientists use many different tools to understand the universe. While telescopes offer valuable insights about interactions between stars, planets and galaxies; particle accelerators give researchers a better understanding of the basic particles that make up these structures, as well as the fields and forces that hold them together. The bigger the accelerator, the more energy subatomic particles can pick up, which leads to higher-intensity impacts that expose ever more basic particles, fields and forces. However, bigger is also costlier, and scientists worry that accelerators built with today's technology may simply be unaffordable. <a href="/news-publications/nersc-news/science-news/2009/nersc-and-crd-help-decipher-science-from-compact-accelerator-simulations/" title="NERSC and CRD Help Decipher Science from Compact Accelerator Simulations" class="more">Read More »</a></p> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </div> <div class="index-list-item last"> <div class="thumbnail"> <a href="/news-publications/nersc-news/science-news/2009/deep-sky/" title="Deep Sky Project Provides a Portal into Data Universe"><img width="100" height="100" alt="coma1.jpg" src="/assets/NewsImages/2009/coma1__FillWzEwMCwxMDBd.jpg" loading="lazy" /> </a> </div> <div class="list-text"> <h2 class="article-list-title"><a href="/news-publications/nersc-news/science-news/2009/deep-sky/" title="Deep Sky Project Provides a Portal into Data Universe">Deep Sky Project Provides a Portal into Data Universe<span class="more"></span></a></h2> <div class="DateAuthors"> <span class="Date">March 30, 2009</span> </div> <p class="Summary">Every night approximately 3,000 astronomical files flow to the National Energy Research Scientific Computing (NERSC) Center from automated sky scanning systems all over the world for archiving. After a decade of collecting, the center currently holds over 8 million images, making this one of the largest troves of ground-based celestial images available. 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