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The Biology Department at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory recently announced that it expects to receive more than $30 million over the next five years, which will renew financing to support structural biological research, including studies of disease and genomics.

Scientists working at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have developed a compact linear accelerator that uses laser light to accelerate electrons with better efficiency and energy characteristics than ever before.

The latest result from an international collaboration of scientists investigating how the spin of a muon is affected as this type of subatomic particle moves through a magnetic field deviates further than previous measurements from theoretical predictions.

A scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory has developed a safer, easier, and more environmentally friendly way to create a certain experimental type of superconductor, a material that conducts electricity with zero resistance. This new synthesis process facilitates the study of superconductors, which are already used in medical imaging machines and are expected to improve the efficiency of computer chips, electrical transmission lines, and many other real-world devices.

Physicists from the four detector groups at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) -- the world's largest facility for nuclear physics research -- gather with colleagues from around the world to present their latest data and analyses during the Seventeenth International Conference on Ultra-Relativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions, also known as Quark Matter 2004.

Devinder Mahajan, a chemist at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, was recently issued U.S. Patent 6,596,423 for his development of a novel, low-temperature process of producing "pure" hydrogen for use in fuel cells. The process may help address one of the most significant difficulties in developing efficient and affordable fuel cells – how to extend the life of the catalysts that make them work.

From safeguarding fissile materials to developing technology for detection of nuclear weapons, dirty bombs, toxic chemicals, biological pathogens, and conventional explosives, Brookhaven's homeland-security initiatives are focused on protecting the New York metropolitan area and our nation from future terrorist attacks.

For a glimpse of how the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory manages millions of gigabytes of data produced by one of the world's premier nuclear physics experiments, visit the Laboratory's exhibit at the SC2003 (Supercomputing) conference in Phoenix, Arizona, from November 15 to 21.

A new phase of the element carbon, a superhard compressed graphite, has been identified by a research team that includes a scientist from the National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS) at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory.

Scientists at DOE's Brookhaven National Laboratory and the University of Bielefeld, Germany, have discovered a new type of hollow spherical vesicles formed by large-scale, wheel-shaped inorganic molecules. These vesicles, described in the November 6, 2003, issue of Nature, represent a new kind of self-assembly in nature with implications for the emerging field of nanoscience as well the solution behavior of other types of particles or systems previously thought to be unrelated.