Aerial view of Brookhaven National Laboratory looking northwest. The National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II), under construction at the time of this photograph, is in the foreground. In the middle of the frame is the Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN).
The Higgs gives all the particles in the Universe mass, but that makes up less than 1% of the proton. Where's the rest?
The original main gate entrance to Brookhaven National Laboratory, circa the late 1940s.
Brookhaven National Laboratory was the first major national laboratory built for basic civilian research. From Nobel Prize-winning work in atomic physics to addressing community concerns over radiation leaks, the history of Brookhaven parallels the changing fortunes of \"big science\" in the United States. Robert P. Crease brings to life the people, the instruments, the science, and the politics of Brookhaven's first quarter-century. \"[A] very readable, well illustrated and sometimes even racy, recounting of Brookhaven's history, politics and personalities.\"-Denys Wilkinson, Physics World
Thanks to a recent upgrade to the medical isotope facilities at Brookhaven National Laboratory, actinium-225 (Ac-225), an isotope that shows great promise for t
Fermilab's in-house photographer Reidar Hahn quit his newspaper job in 1987 and has never looked back.
The US is building its first new particle collider in decades on Long Island. Stephen Hawking called the technology a 'time machine.' Read more Technology News Here -->...
Dive into the world of nuclear science and the potential risks it poses to humanity with the new documentary 'Strange Matters.' Raising important ethical questions about the responsibility of scientists and the industry in advancing technology.
Between the Lines Source: Brookhaven National Laboratory MP3 Interview with Jaydee Hanson, policy director with the International Center for Technology
An aerial view of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), a 2.4-mile-circumference dual-ring nuclear physics particle collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory. RHIC collides many types of ions—from polarized protons to the nuclei of gold and uranium atoms—to explore fundamental questions about their underlying structure and the properties of the building blocks of matter.
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A team of scientists from Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York has reported the first direct observation of matter creation from light in a single step.
Nobel Prize–winning neutrinos rank among science’s most unexpected discoveries.
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In 1961, chemists at Brookhaven National Laboratory studied how to detect small brain tumors by analyzing the decay of radioactive material injected into the patient's bloodstream and preferentially absorbed by the tumor. To help them, BNL's Instrumentation Division built different arrays of detectors, and this circular type proved best. In the 1970's, BNL helped reconstruct the raw data received by the detectors into an image of the working brain. This breakthrough led to more practical devices for imaging areas of the brain: today's PET machines. BNL scientists have used PET technology to study major areas of medical research including drug and alcohol addiction, obesity and eating disorders, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), aging, and neurodegenerative disorders.
The perfect performance of superconductors could revolutionize everything from grid-scale power infrastructure to consumer electronics, if only they could be coerced into operating above frigid temperatures. Even so-called high-temperature superconductors (HTS) must be chilled to hundreds of degrees Fahrenheit below zero.
Daya Bay neutrino experiment releases high-precision measurement of subatomic shape shifting and new result on differences among neutrino masses.
Eminent physicists with Clarence Yoakum , the Dean of Rackham Graduate School at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 23rd July 1939. Left to right: Samuel Goudsmit , Yoakum, Werner...
Despite perpetual denials, the Quantum atom is Bohr's debunked planetary model. The EM Thread model of the atom offers a rational alternative that is consistent with the descriptions offered by theorists and images taken by researchers in the field.
Radiometals used in diagnostic imaging and theranostics. PET imaging,SPECT imaging radiopharmaceuticals such as gallium-68 and technetium-99m.
The American Physical Society (APS) — a 48,000-member organization representing physicists in the United States and around the world and publisher of numerous scientific journals — has named the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory an APS Historic Site. The Cosmotron played an important role in the scientific discoveries which led to this designation. The Cosmotron was the first machine to produce all the types of negative and positive mesons known to exist in cosmic rays, making possible the discoveries of the K0L meson and the first vector meson. It was also the first accelerator to produce heavy unstable particles and this led directly to the experimental confirmation of the theory of associated production of strange particles. The Cosmotron operated from 1953 to 1966.
The Higgs gives all the particles in the Universe mass, but that makes up less than 1% of the proton. Where's the rest?
Scientists from the University of Kansas and the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have made significant progress towards separating hydrogen and oxygen molecules to produce pure hydrogen — without using fossil fuels. Results from pulse radiolysis experiments have laid ba
Justine Haupt wanted something tactile while also giving her an excuse for not texting
"Hammerhead is Out!" Part 2 of 3. Script by Len Wein. Pencils by Ross Andru. Inks by Mike Esposito. Cover by Ross Andru and Frank Giacoia. After surviving his free fall from the helicopter, the wondrous wall-crawler continues his pursuit of Dr. Octopus and Aunt May! The six-armed super-villain takes refuge at Brookhave
A team of scientists from the U.S. Dept. of Energy (DOE)’s Brookhaven National Laboratory, Columbia Engineering, Columbia Physics and Kyoto Univ. has discovered an unusual form of electronic …
Researchers share the first measurements of the attractive force between antiprotons. The discovery gives physicists new ways to look at the forces that bind matter and antimatter.
The Board of Directors of Brookhaven Science Associates (BSA) has named theoretical physicist JoAnne Hewett as the next director of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory and BSA president.
Nuclear physicist Berndt Mueller has joined Brookhaven National Laboratory as the new Associate Laboratory Director for Nuclear & Particle Physics, effective January 1, 2013. Mueller brings world-class experience as both a scientist and a manager of major research initiatives to this key leadership position at Brookhaven Lab. Mueller, an active scientist with more than 300 peer-reviewed publications with 9,000-plus citations, served as James B. Duke Professor and Director of the Center for Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences at Duke University.
