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RHIC Run 21: Pushing the limits at the lowest collision energy

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory

Accelerator physicists are preparing the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider for its 21st year of experiments, set to begin on or about February 3, 2021. Instead of producing high-energy particle smashups, the goal for this run is to maximize collision rates at the lowest energy ever achieved at RHIC to search for evidence of a critical point in the transition between nuclear matter and a soup of free quarks and gluons that mimics the conditions of the early universe.

Tiny particles that seed clouds can form from trace gases over open sea

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

New results from an atmospheric study over the Eastern North Atlantic reveal that tiny aerosol particles that seed the formation of clouds can form out of next to nothingness over the open ocean. The findings will improve how aerosols and clouds are represented in models that describe Earth's climate so scientists can understand how the particles--and the processes that control them--might have affected the planet's past and present, and make better predictions about the future.

Journal: Nature Communications
Funder: NASA, DOE/US Department of Energy, DOE's Atmospheric System Research

Scientists streamline process for controlling spin dynamics

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Marking a major achievement in the field of spintronics, researchers at Brookhaven National Laboratory and Yale University have demonstrated the ability to control spin dynamics in magnetic materials by altering their thickness. The study, published today in Nature Materials, could lead to smaller, more energy-efficient electronic devices.

Journal: Nature Materials
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Brookhaven Lab's Top-10 Stories of 2020

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory

With all the remarkable changes and challenges that took place in 2020, the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory had a banner year in science. Read on to learn more about the top stories of 2020.

Students identify starting points for potential COVID-19 inhibitors

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory

Two students working under the mentorship of Desigan Kumaran, a structural biologist at the US Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, have helped to identify molecules that could potentially lead to new antiviral drugs for treating COVID-19. Though the students conducted their fall 2020 internships remotely, the potential of their work is firmly planted in the real world and could have lasting impact.

In Memoriam: Jack Steinberger, 99

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory

Jack Steinberger, who with Leon Lederman and Melvin Schwartz was awarded the 1988 Nobel Prize in physics for their 1962 discovery of the muon neutrino, died on Saturday, December 12, 2020, at his home in Geneva. He was 99.

Brookhaven's Kevin Yager named Oppenheimer Leadership Fellow

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Yager, a group leader at the Center for Functional Nanomaterials, is exploring challenges and opportunities for the US Department of Energy.

Exploring blended materials along compositional gradients

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new platform could accelerate the development of blended materials with desired properties.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, National Science Foundation

Quantum X-ray microscope underway at Brookhaven Lab

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory have begun building a quantum-enhanced x-ray microscope at the National Synchrotron Light Source II. This groundbreaking microscope, supported by the Biological and Environmental Research progam at DOE's Office of Science, will enable researchers to image biomolecules like never before.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Brookhaven's Ivan Bozovic wins 2021 James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Brookhaven's Ivan Bozovic and collaborators were recognized by the American Physical Society "For pioneering the atomic-layer-by-layer synthesis of new metastable complex-oxide materials, and the discovery of resulting novel phenomena."

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