A Dry State in the West

Posted on July 22, 2014 by rberkowitz

pt.5.4004thumbnailWhat is causing California’s worst-ever drought?  Read more at Physics Today…

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Producing Hyperpolarized Xenon Gas on a Microfluidic Chip

Posted on June 10, 2014 by rberkowitz

Rachel-Pines-2-300x158While big machines were once the stuff that scientific dreams are made of, analytical spectroscopy instrumentation has trended to smaller products that are portable, affordable, and fit into locations far removed from a standard laboratory.  Read more at Berkeley Lab…

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Unexpected Water Explains Surface Chemistry of Nanocrystals

Posted on May 29, 2014 by rberkowitz

Rachel-image-3-287x300Berkeley Lab scientists answer questions of how charged ligands balance on surface of colloidal nanoparticles.  Read more at Berkeley Lab…

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Probing dopant distribution: Finding by Berkeley Lab Researchers Opens the Door to Better Doping of Semiconductor Nanocrystals

Posted on May 2, 2014 by rberkowitz

Delia-Mill-image-300x156The icing on the cake for semiconductor nanocrystals that provide a non-damped optoelectronic effect may exist as a layer of tin that segregates near the surface.  Read more at Berkeley Lab…

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New and Old Ideas about Earth’s Oxygenation History

Posted on April 24, 2014 by rberkowitz

pt.5.4003thumbnailMultiple approaches are being brought to bear on the question of when and how our planet’s atmosphere acquired life-sustaining oxygen.  Read more at Physics Today…

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The Smartphone Generation

Posted on March 1, 2014 by rberkowitz

Sensor_SmallWith the Image Sensors 2014 conference approaching, IMVE looks at the debt that industrial cameras owe to mobile phones.  Read more at Imaging & Machine Vision Europe…

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Vertical Farms

Posted on February 24, 2014 by rberkowitz

pt.5.4002thumbnailFeeding the world’s increasingly urban population could entail building multistory farms in cities.  Read more at Physics Today…

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Greener Ways to Raise Revenue

Posted on December 13, 2013 by rberkowitz

pt.5.4001thumbnailNorthwest states lead the US in evaluating the feasibility of a carbon tax.  Read more at Physics Today…

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A Two-Wheeled PostDoc

Posted on October 6, 2013 by rberkowitz

img_1795After completing my PhD, I rode my bicycle from Paris to Gibraltar. Here’s the story.

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Trapping and Keeping Carbon Dioxide Emissions

Posted on September 11, 2013 by rberkowitz

2013_09_11_trappingandkeepingcarbondioxideemissions_tbUnderground carbon sequestration could mitigate global warming. Its effectiveness is being studied in the field and in the lab.  Read more at Physics Today…

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