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Great Neck South High School wins Regional Science Bowl at Brookhaven Lab

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory

Great Neck South High School took first place in the Brookhaven National Laboratory/Long Island Regional High School Science Bowl held at the Lab on Saturday, Jan. 28.

Secrets to scientific success: Planning and coordination

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory

Very often there are people behind the scenes of scientific advances, quietly organizing the project's logistics. New facilities and big collaborations require people to create schedules, manage resources, and communicate among teams. The US Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory is lucky to have Xiaofeng Guo in its ranks -- a skilled project manager who coordinates projects reaching across the US and around the world.

Chemists ID catalytic 'key' for converting CO2 to methanol

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Results from experiments and computational modeling studies that definitively identify the 'active site' of a catalyst commonly used for making methanol from CO2 will guide the design of improved catalysts for transforming this pollutant to useful chemicals.

Journal: Science
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Producing radioisotopes for medical imaging and disease treatment

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory

Brookhaven Lab's high-energy proton accelerator and a group led by Cathy Cutler team up to meet the nation's demand for medical isotopes.

Study IDs link between sugar signaling and regulation of oil production in plants

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists from Brookhaven Lab have identified a previously unknown link between a protein that maintains plant sugar balance and one that turns on oil production. The biochemical detective work points to new strategies for tapping into the energy plants capture from the sun to produce oil-based biofuels and other biomaterials.

Journal: The Plant Cell
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Imaging the inner workings of a sodium-metal sulfide battery for first time

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists discover that the iron sulfide battery material undergoes significant changes in its microstructure and chemical composition as sodium ions enter and leave the material during the first discharge/charge cycle, leading to an initial loss in battery capacity.

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

Water-repellent nanotextures found to have excellent anti-fogging abilities

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Nanotextures inspired by the cone-shaped structures found on the surface of cicada wings could inform new designs for materials prone to fogging, such as car and aircraft windshields.

Journal: Nature Materials
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, Thales Group, French Ministry of Defense

Scientists estimate solar nebula's lifetime

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A collaborative study involving Brookhaven, MIT, the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, and the National Museum in Rio de Janeiro suggests the gas cloud from which our solar system formed lasted about 4 million years.

Journal: Science
Funder: Department of Energy, NASA

Exploring the matter that filled the early universe

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Theorists and scientists conducting experiments that recreate matter as it existed in the very early universe are gathered in Chicago this week to present and discuss their latest results.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy
Meeting: Quark Matter 2017

Brookhaven National Laboratory's top-10 science successes of 2016

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory

From advances in accelerators and experiments exploring the building blocks of matter and making medical isotopes to new revelations about superconductors, nanomaterials, and biofuels, 2016 was a year of accomplishment at the US Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory. Here are our Top-10 highlights.

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