BERKELEY LAB

 

C O N T E N T S

INTRODUCTION BY
CHARLES V. SHANK

PHYSICS AND COSMOLOGY

THE FATE OF THE UNIVERSE

MAGNETIC ATTRACTION

INTO THE HEART OF A NEUTRON STAR

LlFE SCIENCES

COAXING SECRETS FROM A CELL

BREAST CANCER: REVERSING THE PROCESS

THE GENETICS OF DOWN SYNDROME

ADVANCED LIGHT SOURCE

SHORTER WAVES FOR DENSER CHIPS

BEAMING IN ON CELL STRUCTURE

MATERIALS AND CHEMISTRY

IMAGES FROM WITHIN

SIGNALS FROM THE FAR REACHES OF SPACE

ELECTRONS AT THE INTERFACE

COMPUTING SCIENCES

A FLAW IN THE LAW

ZOOMING IN ON DATA

ENERGY AND EARTH SCIENCES

SAFE STORAGE

IF IT LEAKS LIKE A DUCT . . . (SEAL IT!)

LIVING ON THE FAULT LINE

ABOUT THE LAB

ABOUT THE LAB

FUNDING AND STAFFING

CREDITS

ABOUT THE IMAGES:

Top to bottom, tools of the trade here include a magnet 250,000 times stronger than the magnetic field of Earth, an exquisitely sensitive bolometer able to detect signals from the early universe, and a facility able to reveal the structure of biological molecules like this DNA-cleaving enzyme.