Webzine's New Look
Makes its Debut

Lab technology allows researchers to watch stress evolve within faults.

Science Beat, the Lab's research webzine, has been revamped. It now has a new name, Science@Berkeley Lab, and new emphasis on multidisciplinary research. The inaugural issue features stories on the interface between water and solids, imaging seismic faults, and a program that enables the processing of immense quantities of satellite data from the cosmic microwave background. The first installment of the "In Series" section explores the Lab's role in the proposed International Linear Collider. Go here to read these and other stories.

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Distinguished Chemist
Leo Brewer Dies at 85

Brewer in 1961

Leo Brewer, a Manhattan Project alumnus who won the E. O. Lawrence Award in 1961 and headed Berkeley Lab's Inorganic Materials Division from 1961 to 1975, died on Tuesday. He was 85. An investigator at the Lab since 1950, Brewer was an emeritus Professor of Chemistry at UC Berkeley, where he joined the faculty in 1946 after receiving his Ph.D there. He was a specialist in high-temperature chemistry and received membership in the National Academy of Sciences in 1959. A burial service will be held tomorrow at 11 a.m. at Oakmont Memorial Park, 2099 Reliez Valley Road, Lafayette. All are welcome to attend. Brewer had requested that any donations in his honor be made to the Department of Chemistry or to the California Native Plant Society.

SLAC Plans New
X-Ray Laser

With nearly $400 million in funding from the Department of Energy's Office of Science, the Stanford Linear Acceleration Center is building the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS), the first x-ray electron laser of its kind in the world. The LCLS can produce x-rays that are shorter and quicker than pulses from present x-ray sources. This will allow researchers to make more precise observations of molecules. Full story.