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Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) Enters 25th and Final Run
Monday, March 24, 2025
Imaging Nuclear Shapes by Smashing them to Smithereens
Wednesday, November 6, 2024
New Heaviest Exotic Antimatter Nucleus
Wednesday, August 21, 2024
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider Begins Run 24
Monday, April 15, 2024
Super Strong Magnetic Fields Leave Imprint on Nuclear Matter
Friday, February 23, 2024
New Driver for Shapes of Small Quark-Gluon Plasma Drops?
Tuesday, June 27, 2023
Direct Photons Point to Positive Gluon Polarization
Wednesday, June 21, 2023
Calculation Shows Why Heavy Quarks Get Caught up in the Flow
Wednesday, June 7, 2023
Subtle Signs of Fluctuations in Critical Point Search
Friday, June 2, 2023
First Measurements of Hypernuclei Flow at RHIC
Friday, May 26, 2023
STAR Physicists Track Sequential 'Melting' of Upsilons
Tuesday, March 14, 2023
Clear Sign that QGP Production 'Turns Off' at Low Energy
Friday, February 24, 2023
Data Reveal a Surprising Preference in Particle Spin Alignment
Wednesday, January 18, 2023
New Type of Entanglement Lets Scientists 'See' Inside Nuclei
Wednesday, January 4, 2023
What Triggers Flow Fluctuations in Heavy-Ion Collision Debris?
Monday, December 19, 2022
Brookhaven Lab to Lead New 'Saturated Glue' Theory Collaboration
Wednesday, December 7, 2022
Brookhaven's Brandenburg Named 2022 Blavatnik Regional Awards Finalist
Wednesday, September 21, 2022
Signs of Saturation Emerge from Particle Collisions at RHIC
Wednesday, August 31, 2022
Study Reveals How Some High-Energy Particle 'Jets' Lose Energy
Wednesday, June 8, 2022
Physicists 'Shine' Light on Inner Details and Breakup of Simple Nucleus
Thursday, March 24, 2022
Top-10 Areas of Amazing Science at Brookhaven Lab in 2021
Wednesday, December 29, 2021
Start-up of 22nd Run at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC)
Monday, December 13, 2021
New Results from the RHIC Spin Program
Thursday, October 7, 2021
Physicists Probe Light Smashups to Guide Future Research
Tuesday, September 21, 2021
Results from Search for 'Chiral Magnetic Effect' at RHIC
Tuesday, August 31, 2021
Collisions of Light Produce Matter/Antimatter from Pure Energy
Wednesday, July 28, 2021
Tantalizing Signs of Phase-change 'Turbulence' in RHIC Collisions
Friday, March 5, 2021
RHIC Run 21: Pushing the Limits at the Lowest Collision Energy
Monday, January 25, 2021
Brookhaven Lab's Top-10 Stories of 2020
Wednesday, January 6, 2021
New Research Deepens Mystery of Particle Generation in Proton Collisions
Tuesday, June 23, 2020
'Strange' Glimpse into Neutron Stars and Symmetry Violation
Monday, March 9, 2020
Top-10 Science and Technology Achievements of 2019
Monday, January 6, 2020
20th Year of Particle Smashups Underway at Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider
Monday, December 16, 2019
Sea Quark Surprise Reveals Deeper Complexity in Proton Spin Puzzle
Thursday, March 14, 2019
Startup Time for Ion Collisions Exploring the Phases of Nuclear Matter
Friday, January 4, 2019
Four Brookhaven Lab Scientists Named Fellows of American Physical Society
Tuesday, October 9, 2018
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Talented Photographers Capture the Art of Science at Brookhaven Lab
Wednesday, July 18, 2018
Quark Matter 2018: Nuclear Physicists Gather to Discuss Fundamental Particle Interactions
Friday, May 11, 2018
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider Begins 18th Year of Experiments
Wednesday, March 21, 2018
Elke-Caroline Aschenauer Awarded Prestigious Humboldt Research Award
Wednesday, January 31, 2018
'Perfect Liquid' Quark-Gluon Plasma is the Most Vortical Fluid
Wednesday, August 2, 2017
Heavy Particles Get Caught Up in the Flow
Friday, May 26, 2017
Exploring the Matter that Filled the Early Universe
Monday, February 6, 2017
Eric Lançon Named Director of Brookhaven Lab's Scientific Data and Computing Center
Tuesday, August 2, 2016
A View of the Colorful Microcosm Within a Proton
Monday, March 28, 2016
Beam-Beam Compensation Scheme Doubles Proton-Proton Collision Rates at RHIC
Monday, January 4, 2016
RHIC Particle Smashups Find that Shape Matters
Monday, December 7, 2015
Physicists Measure Force that Makes Antimatter Stick Together
Wednesday, November 4, 2015
Quark Matter 2015: Scientists Present, Discuss Latest Data from Experiments Smashing Nuclei at the Speed of Light
Thursday, October 1, 2015
Smashing Polarized Protons to Uncover Spin and Other Secrets
Wednesday, February 11, 2015
2014's Top-10 Scientific Achievements at Brookhaven Lab
Monday, January 5, 2015
A Closer Look at the Perfect Fluid
Thursday, October 2, 2014
Big Chill Sets in as RHIC Physics Heats Up
Monday, February 3, 2014
Energy Department Announces 61 Scientists to Receive Early Career Research Program Funding
Thursday, May 9, 2013
Winners Announced for Global Physics Photography Contest
Thursday, April 18, 2013
Help Choose the Next Iconic "Big Science" Image
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Closing in on the Border Between Primordial Plasma and Ordinary Matter
Monday, August 13, 2012
MEDIA ADVISORY: Latest Findings on Primordial 'Soup' and Nature's Strongest Force
Thursday, August 2, 2012
Hot Nuclear Matter Featured in Science
Thursday, July 19, 2012
RHIC Physicists Nab New Record for Heaviest Antimatter
Sunday, April 24, 2011
Unique New Probe of Proton Spin Structure at RHIC
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Media Advisory: The Heaviest Known Antimatter
Monday, February 14, 2011
Brookhaven Lab Ranked No. 1 for Hadron Collider Research
Friday, December 10, 2010
Exotic Antimatter Detected at Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC)
Thursday, March 4, 2010
'Bubbles' of Broken Symmetry in Quark Soup at RHIC
Monday, February 15, 2010
'Perfect' Liquid Hot Enough to be Quark Soup
Monday, February 15, 2010
Meet the Particle Colliders that Reveal the Inner Workings of the Universe
Friday, January 15, 2010
Two Brookhaven Lab Scientists Receive Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Brookhaven Lab's Paul Sorensen Receives Prize From the American Physical Society
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
U.S., China Cooperate on High-Energy Physics Experiment
Thursday, April 20, 2006
RHIC Scientists Serve Up 'Perfect' Liquid
Monday, April 18, 2005
Copper vs. Copper at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider
Wednesday, January 12, 2005
New Machine Record for Heavy Ion Luminosity at RHIC
Wednesday, May 5, 2004
RHIC Resumes Operation With First Deuteron-Gold Collisions
Monday, January 13, 2003
RHIC Begins Colliding High-Energy Polarized Protons
Monday, December 17, 2001
RHIC Resumes Operation With First Full-Energy Collisions
Wednesday, July 18, 2001
First Results From Brookhaven Lab's New Collider
Monday, January 15, 2001
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) Begins Smashing Atoms
Tuesday, June 13, 2000
Massive Physics Apparatus Arrives at Brookhaven Lab
Thursday, November 6, 1997
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Welcoming a New Era of Discovery at the 2024 RHIC & AGS Users' Meeting
Tuesday, July 2, 2024
534th Brookhaven Lecture: Probing Quark Gluon-Plasma with Heavy Quarks
Friday, May 24, 2024
RHIC Run 24: Science Goals and Accelerator Advances
Monday, April 15, 2024
Packed Crowd Attends Brookhaven Lab's Nuclear Physics Long Range Plan Roll-Out Event
Monday, October 23, 2023
Celebrating New Beginnings at RHIC and EIC
Thursday, August 31, 2023
From Environmental Science to Physics to Intelligence
Wednesday, July 26, 2023
RHIC Gets Ready to Smash Gold Ions for Run 23
Monday, May 8, 2023
sPHENIX Detector is Ready for Collisions
Monday, May 1, 2023
From RHIC to the EIC: Taking Our Exploration of Matter to the Next Frontier
Monday, August 22, 2022
From RHIC to EIC: At the QCD Frontiers
Thursday, June 30, 2022
RHIC/AGS Users' Meeting Emphasizes Diverse Workforce Opportunities
Thursday, June 30, 2022
Quark Matter 2022: New Results from RHIC and LHC—Plus Plans for the Future
Tuesday, May 24, 2022
Successful RHIC Run 21 Completes Beam Energy Scan II
Thursday, November 18, 2021
Summer Sundays Offer Virtual Tour of Brookhaven Lab
Friday, August 20, 2021
Searching for Signs of 'Glueballs' in Proton-Proton Smashups
Tuesday, March 9, 2021
'Forward' Jet-tracking Components Installed at RHIC's STAR Detector
Monday, February 22, 2021
#RHIC20 Celebrates the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider's History
Wednesday, December 16, 2020
Virtual RHIC/AGS Users' Mtg. Thursday, 10/22; Friday, 10/23
Friday, October 16, 2020
Sharing Science Online: Watch Brookhaven's Summer Sundays Series
Tuesday, September 15, 2020
Charm Quarks Offer Clues to Confinement
Wednesday, July 15, 2020
Celebrating 20 Years of Smashing Success at RHIC
Friday, June 12, 2020
Stunning Images Capture Cosmic Ray Tracks
Wednesday, February 26, 2020
Toward Collaborative Scientific Computing
Wednesday, September 11, 2019
Atom-Smashing Fun: Visit RHIC on Aug. 4
Wednesday, July 31, 2019
Meet the User Facility Team: Berndt Mueller and Rosi Reed, RHIC
Tuesday, July 16, 2019
'The Golden Age of Heavy Ion Collisions'
Thursday, July 11, 2019
STAR Detector has a New Inner Core
Thursday, May 23, 2019
PubSci Explores the Building Blocks of Matter
Thursday, March 14, 2019
STAR Detector on the Move
Friday, October 19, 2018
STAR Team Receives Secretary's Achievement Award
Monday, September 10, 2018
Summer Sundays Connect Long Island to World-class Science
Monday, August 20, 2018
2018 RHIC & AGS Annual Users' Meeting: 'Illuminating the QCD Landscape'
Tuesday, July 3, 2018
Applying Machine Learning to the Universe's Mysteries
Tuesday, January 30, 2018
High-Performance Computing Cuts Particle Collision Data Prep Time
Tuesday, November 28, 2017
2017 RHIC & AGS Annual Users' Meeting: From Protons to Heavy Ions, and Back Again
Wednesday, July 12, 2017
Brookhaven Lab Hosts "Brookathon," a Five-Day GPU Hackathon
Wednesday, July 5, 2017
Brookhaven Lab's Scientific Data and Computing Center Reaches 100 Petabytes of Recorded Data
Thursday, June 29, 2017
Theory Provides Roadmap in Quest for Quark Soup 'Critical Point'
Wednesday, January 4, 2017
Brookhaven Lab Advances its Computational Science and Data Analysis Capabilities
Friday, November 18, 2016
Simple Math, Antimatter, and the Birth of the Universe
Wednesday, September 14, 2016
Summer Sundays are a Huge Success, Again!
Friday, August 19, 2016
New Results on the Higgs Boson and the Building Blocks of Matter Presented at ICHEP
Monday, August 8, 2016
Entering a New Era of Discovery: RHIC & AGS Users' Meeting 2016
Monday, July 11, 2016
Introducing…sPHENIX!
Wednesday, June 15, 2016
Latest RHIC Results Presented at Quark Matter 2015
Thursday, October 1, 2015
Celebrating a Decade of Brewing Perfection
Friday, June 26, 2015
Scientists See Ripples of a Particle-Separating Wave In Primordial Plasma
Monday, June 8, 2015
Giant Electromagnet Arrives at Brookhaven Lab to Map Melted Matter
Friday, May 1, 2015
Gearing Up for RHIC Run 15
Monday, January 12, 2015
Physicists Narrow Search for Solution to Proton Spin Puzzle
Tuesday, November 4, 2014
A New Look for RHIC & Sharper View of QCD: Looking Back at the 2014 RHIC-AGS Users' Meeting
Friday, August 8, 2014
RHIC Run 14: A Flawless 'Run of Firsts'
Wednesday, August 6, 2014
RHIC Physics Feeds Future High-Tech Workforce: Debasish Das
Wednesday, July 2, 2014
RHIC Physics Feeds Future High-Tech Workforce: Daniel Magestro
Monday, May 19, 2014
Tracking the Transition of Early-Universe Quark Soup to Matter-as-we-know-it
Friday, April 4, 2014
Brookhaven's PubSci Starts Off With a Big Bang
Monday, March 24, 2014
Heavy Flavor Tracker for STAR
Wednesday, February 19, 2014
RHIC Physics Feeds Future High-Tech Workforce: Lokesh Kumar
Wednesday, November 6, 2013
Hot Topics for Hot Nuclear Physics
Wednesday, August 7, 2013
Calibrators from Deep Space Tune High-Tech Earthbound Physics Experiments
Wednesday, July 31, 2013
RHIC Physics Feeds Future High-Tech Workforce: Alan Hoffman, Mike Miller & Adam Kocoloski
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
RHIC Physics Feeds Future High-Tech Workforce: Johan Gonzalez
Thursday, May 23, 2013
Big Bang? More like Big Ring
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Data Flowing With RHIC Running
Sunday, March 10, 2013
On the Mark and Set for RHIC Run 13
Monday, February 11, 2013
Hot New Book for Lovers of Science
Friday, February 8, 2013
Gluon Walls: A New Form of Matter?
Monday, January 7, 2013
The Frontiers of RHIC Physics
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
eRHIC: Colliding Electrons with Ions at RHIC
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
Update From RHIC Run 12: One World Record, Three World Firsts
Friday, May 18, 2012
Quirky Photos
Monday, April 23, 2012
Hearts collide — in a good way — at RHIC
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
How Low Can RHIC Go?
Thursday, July 22, 2010
RHIC/AGS Users' Meeting Honors History, Welcomes Future
Thursday, June 24, 2010
STAR Spin
Monday, April 19, 2010
Meet Oleksandr Grebenyuk
Monday, March 15, 2010
NYC-Based Science Writers Meet RHIC, LHC
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Meet Na Li
Monday, February 1, 2010
Meet Sarah LaPointe
Monday, January 4, 2010
"Summer of Science" Bloggers Visit RHIC
Friday, July 17, 2009
A More Luminous Future at RHIC
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
2009 RHIC Run Features New Energy Milestone for Exploring Proton Puzzle
Friday, March 27, 2009
RHIC, AGS Users' Meeting Reflects on Past, Looks Toward Future of Nuclear Physics
Friday, June 6, 2008
