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Toward scaling up nanocages to trap noble gases

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Commercially available materials may be a potentially scalable platform for trapping gases for nuclear energy and other applications.

Journal: Small

Results from search for 'chiral magnetic effect' at RHIC

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory

Physicists from the STAR Collaboration of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider presented long-awaited results from a "blind analysis" of how the strength of the magnetic field generated in certain collisions affects the particles streaming out. The experiment was designed to look for evidence of a predicted physics phenomenon known as the "chiral magnetic effect." It didn't come out as initially predicted.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Layered graphene with a twist displays unique quantum confinement in 2-D

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Bilayer graphene with one of the two layers twisted displayed unique resonant electronic behavior. Understanding how electrons move in such 2-D materials could shed light on how to manipulate them for quantum computing and communication.

Journal: Physical Review Letters

Scientists ID enzyme for making key industrial chemical in plants

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists studying the biochemistry of plant cell walls have identified an enzyme that could turn woody poplar trees into a source for producing a major industrial chemical. The research, just published in Nature Plants, could lead to a new sustainable pathway for making “p-hydroxybenzoic acid,” a chemical building block currently derived from fossil fuels, in plant biomass.

Journal: Nature Plants
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, Brookhaven National Laboratory

Collisions of Light Produce Matter/Antimatter from Pure Energy

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists studying particle collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider have produced definitive evidence for two physics phenomena predicted more than 80 years ago: that matter/antimatter can be created directly by colliding photons and that a magnetic field can bend polarized light along different paths in a vacuum.

Journal: Physical Review Letters
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, Office of Science

sPHENIX assembly shifts into visible high gear

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory

Brand new, state-of-the-art components for an upgraded 1000-ton particle detector are being installed at Brookhaven National Laboratory. Known as sPHENIX, the detector is a radical makeover of the PHENIX experiment, which first began taking data at the Lab's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) in 2000. sPHENIX will significantly enhance scientists' ability to learn about quark-gluon plasma (QGP), an exotic form of nuclear matter created in RHIC's energetic particle smashups.

Putting functional proteins in their place

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Using DNA, scientists organized bioactive proteins in desired 2D and 3D ordered arrays -- promising for structural biology, biomedicine, and more.

Journal: Nature Communications
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, NIH/National Institute of General Medical Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Laboratory Directed Research and Development Program

Physicists achieve significant improvement in spotting neutrinos in a cosmic haystack

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Two papers describe how ground-breaking image reconstruction and analysis algorithms developed for surface-based MicroBooNE detector filter out cosmic ray tracks to pinpoint elusive neutrino interactions with unprecedented clarity.

Journal: Physical Review Applied
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

How COVID-19 wreaks havoc on human lungs

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists have published the first detailed atomic-level model of the SARS-CoV-2 "envelope" protein bound to a human protein essential for maintaining the lining of the lungs. The findings may speed the search for drugs to block the most severe effects of COVID-19.

Journal: Nature Communications
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, Brookhaven National Laboratory's COVID-19 Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) fund

Lighting up ultrafast magnetism in a metal oxide

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Understanding how magnetic correlations change over short timescales is the first step in being able to control magnetism for applications.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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