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Scientists working on the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have precisely measured the mass of the W boson, a particle that plays a weighty role in a delicate balancing act of the quantum universe. This measurement is regarded as one of the most difficult in particle physics and the first of its kind for an LHC experiment.

Elke-Caroline Aschenauer, a senior physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory, has been awarded a Humboldt Research Award for her contributions to the field of experimental nuclear physics. Opportunities made possible by this award will help to foster or strengthen collaborations among European and US physicists addressing some of the major research aims at Brookhaven's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, as well as among those hoping to build a US-based Electron-Ion Collider (EIC).

By analyzing a microscopic sample from a 15th century oil painting, scientists have determined what is responsible for 'soap formation,' a widespread degradation process in oil paintings.

Imagine spending several weeks aboard a ship traversing the stormiest ocean on Earth, climbing each day to the highest deck to check on scientific instruments mounted inside a windowless, 20-foot shipping container.

For the first time, scientists have used high-performance computing (HPC) to reconstruct the data collected by a nuclear physics experiment -- an advance that could dramatically reduce the time it takes to make detailed data available for scientific discoveries.