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Berkeley Physicist Explains Higgs Boson Particle

July 3, 2012, 4:37 pm • Posted by Laird Harrison
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Scientists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), near Geneva, Switzerland, are anticipating a breakthrough in researching the Higgs boson, a subatomic particle, to be announced Wednesday. KQED reporter Amy Standen interviewed Natalie Roe, director of the physics division … Continue reading »

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At 16 Petaflops, East Bay Supercomputer Named World's Fastest

June 18, 2012, 11:45 am • Posted by KQED News Staff
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A new ranking out this morning shows that an IBM system at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has broken the world speed record. The IBM Sequoia can do more than 16 quadrillion floating-point calculations per second, or 16 petaflops. That blows … Continue reading »

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Nobel Laureate Motivated by 'the Fate of the Universe'

October 4, 2011, 5:03 pm • Posted by Amy Standen
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Reported by Amy Standen and Gabriela Quirós, Quest At this morning's press conference at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, newly-minted Nobel laureate, astrophysicist Saul Perlmutter said what attracted him to his work initially was that it took a scientific approach to a … Continue reading »

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Bay Area Cities Vie for a Second Lawrence Berkeley Lab Campus; A Critic Speaks Out

August 4, 2011, 4:04 pm • Posted by Jon Brooks
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By Lisa Pickoff-White and Kelly Wilkinson Albany city officials made their pitch Wednesday night to host the second campus of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. (Click here for Berkeleyside's live-blog of that meeting.) The laboratory has outgrown its main campus … Continue reading »

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