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		<title>Artificial Forest for Solar Water-Splitting</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 16:31:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lcyarris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Berkeley Lab researchers have created the first fully integrated artificial photosynthesis nanosystem. While “artificial leaf” is the popular term for such a system, the key to this success was an “artificial forest.”]]></description>
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		<title>Turning Up the Heat on Biofuels</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/science-shorts/2013/05/15/turning-up-the-heat-on-biofuels/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 18:02:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lcyarris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Researchers with the Energy Biosciences Institute (EBI) have employed a promising technique for improving the ability of cellulase enzymes to operate at advantageously high temperatures.]]></description>
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		<title>Flawed Diamonds Promise Sensory Perfection</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stories/2013/05/09/flawed-diamonds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 20:59:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[nuclear sciences]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By extending the coherence time of electron states to over half a second, a team of scientists from Berkeley Lab, UC Berkeley, and Harvard University has vastly improved the performance of one of the most potent possible sensors of magnetic fields on the nanoscale – a diamond defect no bigger than a pair of atoms, called a nitrogen vacancy (NV) center. The achievement is an important advance for nanoscale sensors and quantum computing. ]]></description>
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		<title>Mathematics of Popping Bubbles in a Foam</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2013/05/09/bubbles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 18:02:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dankrotz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bubble baths and soapy dishwater, the refreshing head on a beer and the luscious froth on a cappuccino. All are foams, beautiful yet ephemeral as the bubbles pop one by one. Now, two researchers from Berkeley Lab and the University of California, Berkeley have described mathematically the successive stages in the complex evolution and disappearance of foamy bubbles, a feat that could help in modeling industrial processes in which liquids mix or in the formation of solid foams such as those used to cushion bicycle helmets.]]></description>
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		<title>New Advance in Biofuel Production</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stories/2013/05/09/enzyme-free-il/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 14:39:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lcyarris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[JBEI researchers have developed an enzyme-free ionic liquid pretreatment of cellulosic biomass that makes it easier to recover fermentable sugars for biofuels and to recycle the ionic liquid.]]></description>
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		<title>Melvin Calvin’s Moon Dust Reappears After 44 Years</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 16:42:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Apollo 11 returned from its historic flight in 1969, the moon rocks and lunar soil collected by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin eventually found their way to some 150 laboratories worldwide. One of those was the Space Sciences Laboratory in Latimer Hall on the UC Berkeley campus. After experiments were conducted and papers published, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seven Berkeley Lab Researchers Receive DOE Early Career Awards</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2013/05/07/seven-berkeley-lab-researchers-receive-doe-early-career-awards/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 23:05:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonweiner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seven Berkeley Lab researchers were on a list of 61 winners announced this week as recipients of the fourth Early Career Research Program managed by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science.  They include Aydin Buluç, Felix Fischer, Daniel Haxton, Alexander Hexemer, Dominique Loque, Gabriel Orebi Gann, and George Pau.]]></description>
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		<title>Composite Organic/Inorganic Thermoelectric is More Than Sum of Its Parts</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/science-shorts/2013/05/06/composite-organicinorganic-thermoelectric-is-more-than-sum-of-its-parts/</link>
		<comments>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/science-shorts/2013/05/06/composite-organicinorganic-thermoelectric-is-more-than-sum-of-its-parts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 15:30:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonweiner</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[materials sciences]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A team led by Berkeley Lab Materials Sciences Division&#8217;s Jeffrey Urban and Rachel Segalman have discovered highly conductive polymer behavior occurring at a polymer/nanocrystal interface. The composite organic/inorganic material is a thermoelectric – a material capable of converting heat into electricity – and has a higher performance than either of its constituent materials. The results [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Study: As Climate Changes, Boreal Forests to Shift North and Relinquish More Carbon Than Expected</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2013/05/05/boreal/</link>
		<comments>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2013/05/05/boreal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2013 20:12:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dankrotz</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[New Berkeley Lab research maps how Earth’s myriad climates—and the ecosystems that depend on them—will move from one area to another as global temperatures rise. The approach foresees big changes for one of the planet’s great carbon sponges. Boreal forests will likely shift north at a steady clip this century. Along the way, the vegetation will relinquish more trapped carbon than most current climate models predict.]]></description>
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		<title>Berkeley Lab Discoveries Open New Hope for MMP Cancer Therapies</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/science-shorts/2013/05/02/new-hope-for-mmp-cancer-therapies/</link>
		<comments>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/science-shorts/2013/05/02/new-hope-for-mmp-cancer-therapies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 17:46:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lcyarris</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[biochemistry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[breast cancer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[New evidence supports earlier findings that cancer therapy drugs based on a family of enzymes called metalloproteinases (MMPs) failed in clinical trials because they were aimed at the wrong target.]]></description>
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		<title>Two Berkeley Lab Researchers Elected to National Academy of Sciences</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2013/05/01/researchers-elected-to-nas/</link>
		<comments>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2013/05/01/researchers-elected-to-nas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 15:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonweiner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The National Academy of Sciences announced the election of two Berkeley Lab researchers to this year’s class of 84 new members and 21 foreign associates from 14 countries. They were elected in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Representing Berkeley Lab this year are James Berger from the Physical Biosciences Division and James Sethian from the Computational Research Division.]]></description>
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		<title>Chromatography Goes Gold: Gold Nanoparticles and Monoliths Make a Perfect Match</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/science-shorts/2013/04/30/chromatography-goes-gold-gold-nanoparticles-and-monoliths-make-a-perfect-match/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 16:11:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lcyarris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The power of chromatography for studying proteins and peptides can be substantially boosted with the addition of gold nanoparticles to polymer monolith surfaces.]]></description>
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		<title>Does Antimatter Fall Up or Down?</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2013/04/30/antimatter-up-down/</link>
		<comments>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2013/04/30/antimatter-up-down/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 15:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paulpreuss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Theory and observations support the view that antimatter experiences gravity just as ordinary matter does, but the evidence so far has been indirect. Indeed, some theorists speculate that antimatter is antigravitational, that it may fall “up” instead of “down.” Led by Berkeley Lab physicists, the ALPHA Collaboration at CERN has made direct measurements of the gravitational mass of atoms of antihydrogen, testing how they fall and in what direction.]]></description>
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		<title>Four Berkeley Lab Researchers Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stories/2013/04/29/four-berkeley-lab-researchers-elected-to-american-academy-of-arts-and-sciences/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 19:06:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonweiner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Four Berkeley Lab scientists have been elected to the 2013 class of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an honorary society founded in 1780 to recognize leading “thinkers and doers.” The new members affiliated with Berkeley Lab are Frances Hellman and Don Tilley of the Materials Sciences Division and Chemical Sciences Division respectively, Susan Marqusee of the Physical Biosciences Division, and Hitoshi Murayama of the Physics Division.]]></description>
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		<title>Comparing Proteins at a Glance</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2013/04/29/proteins-at-a-glance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 14:36:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lcyarris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A revolutionary X-ray analytical technique enables researchers at a glance to identify structural similarities and differences between multiple proteins under a variety of conditions and has already been used to gain valuable new insight into a prime protein target for cancer chemotherapy.]]></description>
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		<title>Bold Move Forward in Molecular Analyses</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2013/04/25/new-saxs-molecular-analyses/</link>
		<comments>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2013/04/25/new-saxs-molecular-analyses/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 16:06:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lcyarris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New metrics for analyzing data from small angle scattering (SAS) experiments should dramatically improve the ability of scientists to study the structures of macromolecules such as proteins and nanoparticles in solution.]]></description>
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		<title>What Did Alexander Graham Bell’s Voice Sound Like? Berkeley Lab Scientists Help Find Out</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/science-shorts/2013/04/25/alexander-graham-bell/</link>
		<comments>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/science-shorts/2013/04/25/alexander-graham-bell/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 14:46:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dankrotz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Berkeley Lab’s sound-restoration experts have done it again. They’ve helped to digitally recover a 128-year-old recording of Alexander Graham Bell’s voice, enabling people to hear the famed inventor speak for the first time. The recording ends with Bell saying “in witness whereof, hear my voice, Alexander Graham Bell.”
The project involved a collaboration between Smithsonian’s National [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Speeding the Search for Better Methane Capture</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/science-shorts/2013/04/24/better-methane-capture/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 16:41:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lcyarris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Systematic in silico studies have identified several zeolite compounds that show technological promise for capturing methane, the main component of natural gas that can serve as an ally or an adversary in combating global climate change.

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		<title>Berkeley Lab Startup Brings Fuel Cells to the Developing World</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stories/2013/04/24/berkeley-lab-startup-brings-fuel-cells-to-the-developing-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 16:40:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>juliechao</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Feature Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[developing world]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fuel cells]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tech Transfer]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://newscenter.lbl.gov/?p=27623</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A startup company spun off technology developed at Berkeley Lab has created a simple, inexpensive way to provide electricity to the 2.5 billion people in the world who don’t get it reliably. Point Source Power’s innovative device is based on a solid oxide fuel cell that is powered by burning charcoal, wood or other types of biomass—even cow dung—the types of fuel that many in the developing world use for cooking. ]]></description>
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		<title>From Molecules to Gallons: Scaling Up Fuels Created by Artificial Photosynthesis</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/science-shorts/2013/04/23/bio-inspired-design/</link>
		<comments>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/science-shorts/2013/04/23/bio-inspired-design/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 16:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonweiner</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[artificial photosynthesis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[clean energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[energy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://newscenter.lbl.gov/?p=27604</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Artificial photosynthesis is a dream technology that mimics a natural leaf, converting water and carbon dioxide into fuels with sunlight. But before this technology can take flight, scientists will have to solve a fundamental plumbing problem: how to gather molecules of fuel from microscopic reaction sites to pipes that will pour it out by the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Berkeley Lab to Offer Workplace Electric Vehicle Charging</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stories/2013/04/22/berkeley-lab-to-offer-workplace-electric-vehicle-charging/</link>
		<comments>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stories/2013/04/22/berkeley-lab-to-offer-workplace-electric-vehicle-charging/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 16:03:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>juliechao</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[sustainability]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://newscenter.lbl.gov/?p=27589</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[At Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where the nation’s top battery scientists are working to achieve revolutionary advances in battery performance, electric vehicles (EVs) are not just a technology of the future. Growing numbers of employees are already using them to commute to work. To encourage even more to do so, Berkeley Lab has announced that it will start offering workplace EV charging.]]></description>
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		<title>To Build a Better Battery:  Two Takes on Lithium-ion Batteries from Berkeley Lab Researchers</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/science-shorts/2013/04/15/to-build-a-better-battery/</link>
		<comments>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/science-shorts/2013/04/15/to-build-a-better-battery/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 16:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonweiner</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[batteries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[clean energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[materials sciences]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://newscenter.lbl.gov/?p=27558</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Lithium-ion batteries have transformed our lives. Without them, we wouldn’t have laptop computers or cell phones — at least, not the long-lived, lightweight kind we’re used to — and in the near future they may become more important yet. With sufficiently powerful batteries, renewable energy and electric cars become viable, but we first need to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hidden Dangers in the Air We Breathe</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stories/2013/04/10/hidden-dangers-in-the-air-we-breathe/</link>
		<comments>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stories/2013/04/10/hidden-dangers-in-the-air-we-breathe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 16:33:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>juliechao</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Feature Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[indoor air]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pollutants]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://newscenter.lbl.gov/?p=27526</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For decades, no one worried much about the air quality inside people’s homes unless there was secondhand smoke or radon present. Then scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory made the discovery that the aggregate health consequences of poor indoor air quality are as significant as those from all traffic accidents or infectious diseases in the United States. They are now working on turning those research findings into science-based solutions, including better standards for residential buildings and easier ways to test for the hazardous pollutants. ]]></description>
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		<title>Good Cats Wear Black: Black Nanoparticles Could Play Key Role in Clean Energy Photocatalysis</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/science-shorts/2013/04/10/good-cats-wear-black/</link>
		<comments>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/science-shorts/2013/04/10/good-cats-wear-black/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 13:47:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lcyarris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Science Shorts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[catalysis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hydrogen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[solar energy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://newscenter.lbl.gov/?p=27538</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Disorder engineering turns low-efficiency photocatalytic “white” nanoparticles of titanium dioxide into high-efficiency “black” nanoparticles and could be a key to hydrogen energy.]]></description>
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		<title>Sweet Success:</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2013/04/07/sweet-success/</link>
		<comments>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2013/04/07/sweet-success/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Apr 2013 17:03:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lcyarris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News Releases]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[biochemistry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bioenergy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[biofuels]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://newscenter.lbl.gov/?p=27489</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Using an ultrahigh-precision microscopy technique, Berkeley Lab
researchers have uncovered a way to improve the collective catalytic activity of enzyme cocktails on cellulosic biomass, boosting the yields of sugars for the production of advanced biofuels.
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		<title>Department of Energy Renews Joint BioEnergy Institute for Another Five Years</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2013/04/04/doe-renews-jbei/</link>
		<comments>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2013/04/04/doe-renews-jbei/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 18:03:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lcyarris</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[bioenergy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[biofuels]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://newscenter.lbl.gov/?p=27465</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Department of Energy has renewed funding for the Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) for another five years. JBEI is a multi-institutional partnership for advanced biofuels research led by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab).]]></description>
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		<title>Berkeley Lab Researchers Release Guide to  Financing Energy Upgrade for K-12 School Districts</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2013/04/02/berkeley-lab-researchers-release-guide-to-financing-energy-upgrade-for-k-12-school-districts/</link>
		<comments>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2013/04/02/berkeley-lab-researchers-release-guide-to-financing-energy-upgrade-for-k-12-school-districts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2013 16:30:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonweiner</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[EETD]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[energy efficiency]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://newscenter.lbl.gov/?p=27435</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Energy costs K-12 schools in the U.S. $6 billion dollars annually. Spending less money on energy costs would leave more for funding-constrained school districts to spend on educating their students, according to researchers at Berkeley Lab Environmental Energy Technologies Division (EETD). They have released a guide on planning and financing comprehensive energy upgrades that involve multiple measures and are targeted toward achieving significant and persistent energy savings. ]]></description>
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		<title>Swords to Plowshares: Engineering Plants for More Biofuel Sugars</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/science-shorts/2013/04/01/engineering-biofuel-sugars/</link>
		<comments>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/science-shorts/2013/04/01/engineering-biofuel-sugars/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 18:59:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lcyarris</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[biochemistry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bioenergy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Joint Bioenergy Institute]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://newscenter.lbl.gov/?p=27447</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Plants are being engineered with low xylan content and a higher proportion of cellulosic sugars for the production of advanced biofuels.]]></description>
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		<title>Making Do with More: Joint BioEnergy Institute Researchers Engineer Plant Cell Walls to Boost Sugar Yields for Biofuels</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stories/2013/03/29/making-do-with-more-joint-bioenergy-institute-researchers-engineer-plant-cell-walls-to-boost-sugar-yields-for-biofuels/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2013 15:21:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lcyarris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Feature Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[biochemistry]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[synthetic biology]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://newscenter.lbl.gov/?p=27399</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Using the tools of synthetic biology, JBEI researchers are engineering healthy plants whose lignocellulosic biomass can more easily be broken down into simple sugars for the production of clean, green and renewable advanced biofuels.]]></description>
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		<title>Trials (and Tribulations) at Sea Can’t Keep Carbon Explorers on the Beach</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/science-shorts/2013/03/28/trials-at-sea/</link>
		<comments>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/science-shorts/2013/03/28/trials-at-sea/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 14:45:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paulpreuss</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Science Shorts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[carbon cycle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Earth Sciences Division]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ocean carbon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oceanography]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://newscenter.lbl.gov/?p=27354</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Somewhere between tossing Jonah overboard and hanging that albatross around the Ancient Mariner’s neck, sailors acquired a reputation for superstition. It takes a clear-headed oceanographer to resist joining them, especially after a string of bad luck at sea involving the number 13.
Jim Bishop of Berkeley Lab’s Earth Sciences Division (ESD), a professor in UC Berkeley’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Memoriam: George Gidal, Distinguished Physicist</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stories/2013/03/27/in-memoriam-george-gidal/</link>
		<comments>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stories/2013/03/27/in-memoriam-george-gidal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 16:53:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paulpreuss</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[high-energy physics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[obituary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[physics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://newscenter.lbl.gov/?p=27376</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[George Gidal, an experimental particle physicist who was an important participant in many of the discoveries of the 20th century that gave us a nearly complete picture of fundamental interactions, died March 1 in Berkeley.  ]]></description>
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		<title>Meeting the Computing Challenges of Next-Generation Climate Models</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stories/2013/03/26/meeting-the-computing-challenges-of-next-generation-climate-models/</link>
		<comments>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stories/2013/03/26/meeting-the-computing-challenges-of-next-generation-climate-models/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2013 17:57:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>juliechao</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://newscenter.lbl.gov/?p=27344</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Berkeley Lab recently hosted an international workshop that brought together top climatologists, computer scientists and engineers from Japan and the United States to exchange ideas for the next generation of climate models as well as the hyper-performance computing environments that will be needed to process the data from those models. It was the 15th in a series of such workshops that have been taking place around the world since 1999.]]></description>
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		<title>Berkeley Lab Researchers Use Metamaterials to Observe Giant Photonic Spin Hall Effect</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2013/03/21/berkeley-lab-researchers-use-metamaterials-to-observe-giant-photonic-spin-hall-effect/</link>
		<comments>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2013/03/21/berkeley-lab-researchers-use-metamaterials-to-observe-giant-photonic-spin-hall-effect/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2013 18:01:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lcyarris</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[material science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[materials sciences]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Materials Sciences Division]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[new materials]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://newscenter.lbl.gov/?p=27015</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Engineering a unique metamaterial of gold nanoantennas, Berkeley Lab researchers were able to obtain the strongest signal yet of the photonic spin Hall effect, an optical phenomenon of quantum mechanics that could play a prominent role in the future of computing.]]></description>
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		<title>Computer Simulations Yield Clues to How Cells Interact With Surroundings</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stories/2013/03/21/computer-sims-integrin/</link>
		<comments>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stories/2013/03/21/computer-sims-integrin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2013 17:25:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dankrotz</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[biology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[computing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[life sciences]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://newscenter.lbl.gov/?p=27217</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Berkeley Lab scientists have developed a computer model of a protein that helps cells interact with their surroundings. Like its biological counterpart, the virtual integrin snippet is about twenty nanometers long. It also responds to changes in energy and other stimuli just as integrins do in real life. The result is a new way to explore how the protein connects a cell’s inner and outer environments.]]></description>
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		<title>Planck Mission Updates the Age of the Universe and What it Contains</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/science-shorts/2013/03/21/planck-results/</link>
		<comments>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/science-shorts/2013/03/21/planck-results/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2013 15:09:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paulpreuss</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[astronomy]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://newscenter.lbl.gov/?p=27195</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[At a March 21 NASA telephone news conference, scientists from the U.S. team participating in the European Space Agency’s Planck mission to map the cosmic microwave background (CMB) discussed Planck’s first cosmological results, including some surprising news. For one thing, the universe is 13.82 billion years old, a hundred million years older than previously thought, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cassava brief: the problem and the genomics approach</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/science-shorts/2013/03/18/cassava-brief-genomics/</link>
		<comments>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/science-shorts/2013/03/18/cassava-brief-genomics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 16:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonweiner</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[genetics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[JGI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joint Genome Insitute]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://newscenter.lbl.gov/?p=26989</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What keeps Mtakai Ngara and Teddy Amuge up at night? Thinking about cassava. These young, ambitious, researchers working at the International Institute for Tropical Africa (IITA) just outside Nairobi, Kenya are learning more about genomics to help breed more effective cassava to feed hungry mouths in their native Africa and further afield. To feed their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Building the Massive Simulation Sets Essential to Planck Results</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2013/03/14/massive-planck-simulations/</link>
		<comments>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2013/03/14/massive-planck-simulations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2013 21:37:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paulpreuss</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Computational Research Division]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cosmic microwave background]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cosmology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Planck collaboration has released its first cosmological results, based on trillions of measurements of the cosmic microwave background. The results owe much to Berkeley Lab’s National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), including tens of millions of hours of massively parallel processing, plus the expertise of physicists and computational scientists in the Computational Cosmology Center (C3) who generated a quarter of a million simulated maps of the Planck sky, essential to the analysis. ]]></description>
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		<title>The Science of Clouds—Why They Matter, and Why There May be Fewer of Them</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stories/2013/03/13/science-of-clouds/</link>
		<comments>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stories/2013/03/13/science-of-clouds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 16:33:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>juliechao</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Clouds can both cool the planet, by acting as a shield against the sun, and warm the planet, by trapping heat. But why do clouds behave the way they do? And how will a warming planet affect the cloud cover? Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory scientist David Romps has made it his mission to answer these questions. ]]></description>
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		<title>Predictability: The Brass Ring For Synthetic Biology</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/science-shorts/2013/03/13/predictability-the-brass-ring-for-synthetic-biology/</link>
		<comments>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/science-shorts/2013/03/13/predictability-the-brass-ring-for-synthetic-biology/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 16:23:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lcyarris</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[bioenergy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[biology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[biology for energy and health]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[DNA sequences and statistical models have been unveiled that greatly increase the reliability and precision by which microbes can be engineered.]]></description>
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		<title>Surprising Control over Photoelectrons from a Topological Insulator</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2013/03/12/photoelectron-polarization-tis/</link>
		<comments>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2013/03/12/photoelectron-polarization-tis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2013 23:04:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paulpreuss</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Advanced Light Source]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lasers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Materials Sciences Division]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Electrons flowing swiftly across the surface of topological insulators (TIs) are “spin polarized,” their spin and momentum locked. This new way to control electron distribution in spintronic devices makes TIs a hot topic in materials science. Now Berkeley Lab scientists have discovered more surprises: contrary to assumptions, the spin polarization of photoemitted electrons from a topological insulator is wholly determined in three dimensions by the polarization of the incident light beam. ]]></description>
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