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Due to aesthetics, most US homeowners won’t buy a light colored roof, even if it reduces their air conditioning bills by reflecting, instead of absorbing, solar heat.  So the question for scientists interested in increasing energy efficiency is, can one make a roof that is both cool and dark? Hashem Akbari, Paul Berdahl, and Ronnen Levinson of Lawrence Berkeley National … [Read more...] about Cool Color Roofs

In the future, biological/electronic chip implants may be able to restore mental function, the use of limbs, and eyesight.  In the near future, in vitro neural networks consisting of millions of living, interconnected nerve cells, will be used to test drugs and sense neurotoxins.  Before any of this can happen, however, scientists must learn how neurons in the human system … [Read more...] about Berkeley Lab and CBI Collaborate on CCDs for Neurotoxin Detection

Imagine waking up each morning and discovering that twenty percent of all plants in your garden had disappeared over night. They had been eaten. Equally astonishing would be the discovery in the afternoon that new plants had taken their place. This is the norm of life in the ocean. Without the ability to accurately observe these daily changes in ocean life cycles, over vast … [Read more...] about LBNL Device Monitors Ocean Carbon