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In addition to providing shade and oxygen, a Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory researcher’s study published Sept. 14 in the journal Environmental Research Letters proposes that trees could help cool the planet through evaporation. According to the study, evaporated water from trees adds to low-level clouds, which reflect solar radiation back to
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On Thursday the UC Regents Committee on Compensation approved compensations and salary adjustments for several high-level UC employees, including Ann Madden Rice, CEO of UC Davis Medical Center and Claire Pomeroy, vice chancellor for human health sciences at UC Davis.
UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory researchers developed a coating material for windows that can control the amount of heat from the sun that enters a room, setting the groundwork to save energy in large commercial buildings and homes. The material — made of semiconductor nanocrystals — has the
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Astronomers from UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory helped find a “holy grail” Wednesday night when they discovered a supernova relatively close to Earth. The supernova — discovered by the Palomar Transient Factory, a four-year-long survey operated from the Palomar Observatory in California — is the brightest and closest
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The surface of a material is usually as far as scientists have delved when exploring the object’s chemistry because it is where the most important reactions happen. But with relatively unexplored materials, such as semiconductors and superconductors, looking past the surface has become increasingly important, which Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
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Six sites have made their cases, and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory now just has to choose which is most qualified to be home to its second campus. In January, the lab — set in the hills directly above the UC Berkeley campus — announced a need for a second
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Recipients of the Larry L. Sautter Award, including UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory researchers, were honored for their innovative uses of information technology at a conference on Monday. The winning projects were selected at the end of July by a selection committee based on criteria that looked at
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The final proposal of six finalist sites for a second campus of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory will be presented tonight. One of three potential sites that would be at least partially in Berkeley, tonight’s presentation will be for a site located in Emeryville and Berkeley on property already owned
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Supporters of one of six finalist sites under consideration for the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s second campus described the potential environmental, economic and community service benefits the site could bring at a crowded public meeting Thursday night. Berkeley Aquatic Park West is one of six finalist sites the lab is
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Since the middle of last month, the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has been listening to the proposals of cities stretching from Richmond to Alameda in order to decide where the lab will erect a second campus. According to lab spokesperson Jon Weiner, the proposed second campus is an effort to
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