Public Release: 19-Oct-2012
Chemistry building at Brookhaven Lab named Historic Chemical Landmark
The New York Section of the American Chemical Society has designated the Chemistry Building at Brookhaven National Laboratory as an Historic Chemical Landmark for the synthesis of 18^FDG, a radiotracer that has had a revolutionary and global impact on cancer diagnosis and management and brain research.
Department of Energy Office of Science, National Institutes of Health

Public Release: 10-Oct-2012
Journal of Biological Chemistry
Biologists describe details of new mechanism for molecular interactions
Scientists have discovered a new mechanism that may alter principle understandings of molecular interactions within a cell's nucleus. In four papers, the scientists describe the details of how particular proteins use a "molecular sled" to slide along DNA -- much like a train running along its tracks -- to find and interact with other proteins. The findings suggest this mechanism may be universal.
US Department of Energy/Office of Science, NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH/National Institute of General Medical Sciences, National Science Foundation, and others

Public Release: 8-Oct-2012
Plant Physiology
Computational model IDs potential pathways to improve plant oil production
Using a computational model they designed to incorporate detailed information about plants' interconnected metabolic processes, scientists at the US Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have identified key pathways that appear to "favor" the production of either oils or proteins. The research, now published online in Plant Physiology, may point the way to new strategies to tip the balance and increase plant oil production.
US Department of Energy/Office of Science

Public Release: 1-Oct-2012
Yearlong MAGIC climate study launches
A Horizon Lines container ship outfitted with meteorological and atmospheric instruments installed by US Department of Energy scientists from Argonne National Laboratory and Brookhaven National Laboratory will begin taking data today for a yearlong mission aimed at improving the representation of clouds in climate models.
Department of Energy's Office of Science

Public Release: 28-Aug-2012
Nature Communications
Magnetic vortex reveals key to spintronic speed limit
Spintronics use electron spin to write and read information. To mobilize this emerging technology, scientists must understand exactly how to manipulate spin as a carrier of computer code. Now, scientists at Brookhaven Lab have precisely measured a key parameter of electron interactions called non-adiabatic spin torque that is essential to the development of spintronic devices. This unprecedented precision guides the reading and writing of digital information and sets the spintronic speed limit.
US Department of Energy/Office of Science

Public Release: 14-Aug-2012
Quark Matter 2012
Closing in on the border between primordial plasma and ordinary matter
Scientists taking advantage of the versatility and new capabilities of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, an atom smasher at the US Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, have observed first glimpses of a possible boundary separating ordinary nuclear matter, composed of protons and neutrons, from the seething soup of their constituent quarks and gluons that permeated the early universe.
US Department of Energy