Latest news from Brookhaven National Laboratory on Newswise en-us Copyright 2024 Newswise 115 31 / /images/newswise-logo-rss.gif /articles/high-voltage-gun-accelerates-electrons-from-zero-to-80-percent-the-speed-of-light/?sc=rsin /articles/high-voltage-gun-accelerates-electrons-from-zero-to-80-percent-the-speed-of-light/?sc=rsin Thu, 10 Oct 2024 05:00:00 EST Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have designed and tested the world's highest voltage polarized electron gun, a key piece of technology needed for building the world's first fully polarized Electron-Ion Collider (EIC). Brookhaven National Laboratory /articles/brookhaven-s-computing-center-reaches-300-petabytes-of-stored-data/?sc=rsin /articles/brookhaven-s-computing-center-reaches-300-petabytes-of-stored-data/?sc=rsin Tue, 08 Oct 2024 09:05:13 EST The Scientific Data and Computing Center (SDCC) at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory now stores more than 300 petabytes of data. That's far more data than would be needed to store everything written by humankind since the dawn of history -- or, if you prefer your media in video format, all the movies ever created. Brookhaven National Laboratory /articles/atmospheric-observatory-opens-for-operation-in-bankhead-national-forest2/?sc=rsin /articles/atmospheric-observatory-opens-for-operation-in-bankhead-national-forest2/?sc=rsin Fri, 04 Oct 2024 10:05:14 EST With help from scientists at U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratories, DOE's Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility has established a cutting-edge atmospheric observatory in Alabama's William Bankhead National Forest. Brookhaven National Laboratory /articles/brookhaven-lab-user-facility-summer-school-building-research-connections/?sc=rsin /articles/brookhaven-lab-user-facility-summer-school-building-research-connections/?sc=rsin Wed, 02 Oct 2024 09:05:47 EST The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory is home to several state-of-the-art user facilities that are key in basic research and scientific discovery. Brookhaven National Laboratory /articles/xiaoqian-chen-earns-doe-early-career-award-for-quantum-materials-research/?sc=rsin /articles/xiaoqian-chen-earns-doe-early-career-award-for-quantum-materials-research/?sc=rsin Thu, 26 Sep 2024 11:05:11 EST Xiaoqian Chen, a physicist and beamline scientist at the National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II), a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facility at DOE's Brookhaven National Laboratory, has been selected as one of the 91 early career scientists from across the country to receive research funding through the DOE Office of Science's Early Career Research Program. Brookhaven National Laboratory /articles/constriction-junction-do-you-function/?sc=rsin /articles/constriction-junction-do-you-function/?sc=rsin Wed, 18 Sep 2024 05:00:16 EST Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have shown that a type of qubit whose architecture is more amenable to mass production can perform comparably to qubits currently dominating the field. Brookhaven National Laboratory /articles/juan-jimenez-named-blavatnik-regional-awards-finalist/?sc=rsin /articles/juan-jimenez-named-blavatnik-regional-awards-finalist/?sc=rsin Tue, 17 Sep 2024 08:00:00 EST The Blavatnik Family Foundation and the New York Academy of Sciences have recognized chemical engineer Juan Jimenez as a Finalist in the 2024 Blavatnik Regional Awards for Young Scientists. Jimenez's catalysis science research at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory opens doors for turning climate change-driving gases into industrially useful materials. Brookhaven National Laboratory /articles/planning-for-impacts-of-floods-and-clouds-on-power/?sc=rsin /articles/planning-for-impacts-of-floods-and-clouds-on-power/?sc=rsin Wed, 11 Sep 2024 15:05:09 EST On the heels of a Northeastern rainstorm that flooded towns on Long Island and claimed at least two lives in Connecticut, teams of scientists, engineers, and representatives of local power and transportation utilities met to discuss the increasing frequency of severe weather and its impacts on crucial infrastructure. The timing for the meeting at New York's Kennedy International Airport August 21-22, 2024, was a coincidence. Brookhaven National Laboratory /articles/instrumental-brookhaven-s-alabama-bound-spectrometer/?sc=rsin /articles/instrumental-brookhaven-s-alabama-bound-spectrometer/?sc=rsin Fri, 23 Aug 2024 09:05:48 EST What populates Alabama's William Bankhead National Forest? Trees might be the first thing that come to mind -- or maybe deer. But a lot of sophisticated scientific instruments are joining the natural forest occupants thanks to a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) research facility being set up there to study connections between the forest and atmosphere. Brookhaven National Laboratory /articles/battelle-names-anibal-boscoboinik-inventor-of-the-year/?sc=rsin /articles/battelle-names-anibal-boscoboinik-inventor-of-the-year/?sc=rsin Fri, 23 Aug 2024 09:05:16 EST Anibal Boscoboinik, a materials scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, has been named an "Inventor of the Year" by Battelle Memorial Institute for his work on noble gas trapping technology with applications in industry and environmental health. Brookhaven National Laboratory /articles/catalyst-for-one-step-conversion-of-methane-to-methanol/?sc=rsin /articles/catalyst-for-one-step-conversion-of-methane-to-methanol/?sc=rsin Thu, 22 Aug 2024 08:05:41 EST Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and collaborating institutions have engineered a highly selective catalyst that can convert methane, a major component of natural gas, into methanol, an easily transportable liquid fuel, in a single, one-step reaction. Brookhaven National Laboratory /articles/new-heaviest-exotic-antimatter-nucleus/?sc=rsin /articles/new-heaviest-exotic-antimatter-nucleus/?sc=rsin Wed, 21 Aug 2024 11:00:00 EST Scientists studying the tracks of particles streaming from six billion collisions of atomic nuclei at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) -- an "atom smasher" that recreates the conditions of the early universe -- have discovered a new kind of antimatter nucleus, the heaviest ever detected. Brookhaven National Laboratory /articles/unlocking-the-last-lanthanide/?sc=rsin /articles/unlocking-the-last-lanthanide/?sc=rsin Wed, 21 Aug 2024 09:05:01 EST A team of scientists led by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) was recently able to observe how promethium forms chemical bonds when placed in an aqueous solution. Brookhaven National Laboratory /articles/the-more-you-neutrino/?sc=rsin /articles/the-more-you-neutrino/?sc=rsin Thu, 15 Aug 2024 10:05:08 EST As a summer science writing intern in the Media and Communications Office at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, I learned about neutrinos while writing about Mary Bishai, an award-winning neutrino scientist. Brookhaven National Laboratory /articles/studying-loss-to-make-quantum-computing-gains/?sc=rsin /articles/studying-loss-to-make-quantum-computing-gains/?sc=rsin Mon, 12 Aug 2024 17:05:39 EST Scientists from Yale University and the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have developed a systematic approach to understanding how energy is lost from the materials that make up qubits. Energy loss inhibits the performance of these quantum computer building blocks, so determining its sources -- and adjusting the materials as necessary -- can help bring researchers closer to designing quantum computers that could revolutionize several scientific fields. Brookhaven National Laboratory /articles/mary-bishai-named-distinguished-scientist-fellow/?sc=rsin /articles/mary-bishai-named-distinguished-scientist-fellow/?sc=rsin Mon, 12 Aug 2024 13:05:55 EST Physicist Mary Bishai of the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory has been named a 2024 DOE Office of Science Distinguished Scientist Fellow. Brookhaven National Laboratory /articles/students-sample-energy-opportunities-at-brookhaven-lab-and-beyond/?sc=rsin /articles/students-sample-energy-opportunities-at-brookhaven-lab-and-beyond/?sc=rsin Thu, 08 Aug 2024 10:05:26 EST Twenty high school juniors and seniors recently spent two weeks at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory learning how scientists play key roles in developing cleaner, renewable energy sources.   The students visited the Lab through Suffolk County's Summer Youth Employment Program for "A Taste of the Trades" for an introduction to possible pathways they can pursue in the energy workforce. Brookhaven National Laboratory /articles/esther-takeuchi-honored-in-special-festschrift-issue/?sc=rsin /articles/esther-takeuchi-honored-in-special-festschrift-issue/?sc=rsin Mon, 05 Aug 2024 15:05:42 EST Esther Sans Takeuchi, a materials scientist and chemical engineer at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, was honored by the Journal of Physical Chemistry C in a special Festschrift issue earlier this year. Brookhaven National Laboratory /articles/thea-vijaya-kumar-coordinates-mechanical-cooling-systems-for-eic/?sc=rsin /articles/thea-vijaya-kumar-coordinates-mechanical-cooling-systems-for-eic/?sc=rsin Thu, 01 Aug 2024 11:05:54 EST What do a particle collider and a human have in common? Not much. But both have parts that need to be kept within a certain temperature range to function properly. It's a phenomenon mechanical engineer Thea Vijaya Kumar knows well. She designs systems to keep people and machines cool -- a cool job in every sense of the word. Brookhaven National Laboratory /articles/battery-scientist-honored-by-doe-s-vehicle-technologies-office/?sc=rsin /articles/battery-scientist-honored-by-doe-s-vehicle-technologies-office/?sc=rsin Tue, 30 Jul 2024 10:05:51 EST Xiao-Qing Yang, a physicist who leads the Electrochemical Energy Storage group within the Chemistry Division at Brookhaven National Laboratory, has spent a good deal of his professional career studying the intricate details of how batteries work -- and stop working. DOE's Vehicle Technologies Office (VTO) recently recognized his contributions with a Distinguished Achievement Award. Brookhaven National Laboratory