Can someone who accepts science also hold religious beliefs? Lord Jonathan Sacks says yes. Join this discussion with the popular ethicist, a frequent radio and television guest, who says "the hostility between religion and science is one of the curses of our age and is damaging to [both] in equal ...
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Dark Energy from the Largest Galaxy MapsDark energy is a phenomena causing the Universe to expand more rapidly than can be explained by Einstein's laws of gravity. Its discovery merited the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics.The effects of dark energy imprint on large galaxy maps. I will describe the results from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, ...
The Renewable Electricity Futures Study is an initial investigation of the extent to which renewable energy supply can meet the electricity demands of the contiguous United States over the next several decades. This study explores the implications and challenges of very high renewable electricity generation levels--from 30% up to 90%, ...
More than two billion people-concentrated in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia-face an extraordinary range of barriers in their attempts to escape poverty. They have limited access to energy, unsafe drinking water, and inadequate refrigeration, to name a few obstacles.The recently launched LBNL Institute for Globally Transformative Technologies (LIGTT) at Berkeley ...
