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For the First Time Ever, Scientists Watch an Atom’s Electrons Moving in Real Time

By Guest PostAugust 7, 20106 commentsScienceabdallah azzeer, atom, attosecond absorption spectroscopy, berkeley lab, electron motion, electrons, eleftherios goulielmakis, garching, graham fleming, krypton atom, laser light, lawrence berkeley national laboratory, max planck institute, mpq, oscillations, quantum optics, robin santra, stephen leone, zhi-heng loh

An international team of scientists led by groups from the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (MPQ) in Garching, Germany, and from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California at Berkeley has used ultrashort flashes of laser light to directly observe the movement of an atom’s outer electrons for the first time.

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A Cellular Housekeeper, and Potential Target of Obesity Drugs, Caught in Action

By Guest PostAugust 2, 2010Scienceberkeley lab, bing jap, cancer, crystal chuang, enzyme, eukaryotic cells, lawrence berkeley national laboratory, molecular breaks down, obesity, peter walian, proteins, roy kaltschmidt, tripeptidyl peptidase II

Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have obtained the closest look yet of how a gargantuan molecular machine breaks down unwanted proteins in cells, a critical housekeeping chore that helps prevent diseases such as cancer.

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