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28-Jan-2021
Brookhaven Lab Interns Study Airborne COVID-19 Spread
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When Cathrine Hamilton and Alison Robey, fall interns at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, first signed on to collaborate with their mentor Laura Fierce, an associate scientist in the Environmental and Climate Sciences Department, they didn't imagine they would be contributing to widespread research tackling the COVID-19 pandemic.
25-Jan-2021
RHIC Run 21: Pushing the limits at the lowest collision energy
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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.
6-Jan-2021
Brookhaven Lab's Top-10 Stories of 2020
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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.
28-Dec-2020
Students identify starting points for potential COVID-19 inhibitors
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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.
22-Dec-2020
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.
2-Nov-2020
ATLAS Experiment upgrade wins DOE project management award
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In recognition of project management excellence, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded the U.S. ATLAS Phase I Detector Upgrade team, led by DOE's Brookhaven National Laboratory and Stony Brook University, with the Secretary's Achievement Award. The upgrade is one of only three projects to be honored with a DOE project management award this year.
27-Oct-2020
IBM investigates microelectronics at NSLS-II
DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
IBM researchers used the Hard X-ray Nanoprobe at NSLS-II to visualize strain in a new architecture for next-generation microelectronics.
15-Oct-2020
CERN senior fellow Dorota Grabowska receives Leona Woods Lectureship Award
DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Dorota Grabowska, a senior fellow in the department of theoretical physics at CERN, Europe's particle physics laboratory, has been named a recipient of the Leona Woods Distinguished Postdoctoral Lectureship Award.
7-Oct-2020
Steady progress in the battle against COVID-19
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Researchers at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory are making progress on several fronts in the battle against COVID-19, the global pandemic sparked by the emergence of a novel coronavirus late last year.