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Magnesium Protects Tantalum, a Promising Material for Making Qubits
Monday, February 5, 2024

First Direct Visualization of a Zero-Field Pair Density Wave
Monday, July 3, 2023

'Charge Density Wave' Linked to Atomic Distortions in Would-be Superconductor
Wednesday, May 17, 2023

Brookhaven Lab Physicist John Tranquada Elected NAS Member
Monday, May 15, 2023

Mapping the Electronic States in an Exotic Superconductor
Wednesday, April 28, 2021

Magnetism Meets Topology on a Superconductor's Surface
Wednesday, March 17, 2021

Electrons Break Rotational Symmetry in Exotic Low-Temp Superconductor
Tuesday, May 19, 2020

Scientists See Energy Gap Modulations in a Cuprate Superconductor
Wednesday, April 1, 2020

Scientists Observe Superconductivity in Meteorites
Tuesday, March 24, 2020

Electron (or 'Hole') Pairs May Survive Effort to Kill Superconductivity
Friday, June 14, 2019

Scientists Enter Unexplored Territory in Superconductivity Search
Thursday, December 6, 2018

Scientists Pinpoint Energy Flowing Through Vibrations in Superconducting Crystals
Friday, April 27, 2018

Bringing a Hidden Superconducting State to Light
Friday, February 16, 2018

Strange Electrons Break the Crystal Symmetry of High-Temperature Superconductors
Wednesday, July 26, 2017

Electron Orbitals May Hold Key to Unifying Concept of High-Temperature Superconductivity
Thursday, July 6, 2017

Brookhaven Scientists Study Role of 'Electrolyte Gating' in Functional Oxide Materials
Monday, July 3, 2017

Laser Pulses Help Scientists Tease Apart Complex Electron Interactions
Tuesday, December 20, 2016

Scientists Find Static "Stripes" of Electrical Charge in Copper-Oxide Superconductor
Friday, October 14, 2016

Enhancing the Superconducting Properties of an Iron-Based Material
Thursday, October 6, 2016

Scientists Uncover the Origin of High-Temperature Superconductivity in Copper-Oxide Compound
Wednesday, August 17, 2016

Ultra-fast X-ray Lasers Illuminate Elusive Atomic Spins
Monday, May 9, 2016

Elusive State of Superconducting Matter Discovered after 50 Years
Wednesday, April 13, 2016

Scientists Study the Insulator-Superconductor Transition of Copper-Oxide Compound in Fine Detail
Tuesday, April 5, 2016

Technologist Craig Barrett and World Renowned Physicist Séamus Davis Awarded Prestigious Science Foundation Ireland St. Patrick's Day Science Medal
Thursday, March 17, 2016

Four Brookhaven Lab Researchers Elected as 2015 American Physical Society Fellows
Monday, February 1, 2016

Robert M. Konik Named Chair of Brookhaven Lab's Condensed Matter Physics & Materials Science Department
Monday, January 25, 2016

2015's Top 10 Scientific Advances at Brookhaven National Laboratory
Tuesday, December 29, 2015

Quantum Spin Could Create Unstoppable, One-Dimensional Electron Waves
Wednesday, November 18, 2015

Unraveling the Complex, Intertwined Electron Phases in a Superconductor
Monday, October 26, 2015

Two Spin Liquids Square Off in an Iron-Based Superconductor
Tuesday, August 4, 2015

Visualizing How Radiation Bombardment Boosts Superconductivity
Friday, May 22, 2015

2014's Top-10 Scientific Achievements at Brookhaven Lab
Monday, January 5, 2015

Unusual Electronic State Found in New Class of Unconventional Superconductors
Monday, December 8, 2014

Elusive Quantum Transformations Found Near Absolute Zero
Monday, September 15, 2014

Brookhaven Physicist Ivan Bozovic Elected to European Academy of Sciences
Thursday, August 28, 2014

Funding Renewed for Brookhaven's Center for Emergent Superconductivity, a DOE Energy Frontier Research Center
Friday, June 20, 2014

Three Brookhaven Physicists Receive DOE Early Career Research Program Funding
Monday, May 12, 2014

Scientists Find Solution to Two Long-Standing Mysteries of Cuprate High-Temperature Superconductivity
Thursday, May 8, 2014

Scientists Capture Ultrafast Snapshots of Light-driven Superconductivity
Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Brookhaven Lab's Emil Bozin Receives 2014 Science Prize from the Neutron Scattering Society of America
Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Superconductivity in Orbit: Scientists Find New Path to Loss-Free Electricity
Thursday, February 13, 2014

Top-10 Brookhaven Lab Breakthroughs of 2013
Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Opposing Phenomena Possible Key to High-Efficiency Electricity Delivery
Thursday, December 19, 2013

A Grand Unified Theory of Exotic Superconductivity?
Thursday, October 17, 2013

New Evidence to Aid Search for Charge 'Stripes' in Superconductors
Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Scientists Discover Hidden Magnetic Waves in High-Temperature Superconductors
Sunday, August 4, 2013

Interface Superconductivity Withstands Variations in Atomic Configuration
Sunday, August 4, 2013

Imaging Electron Pairing in a Simple Magnetic Superconductor
Sunday, July 14, 2013

Laser Mastery Narrows Down Sources of Superconductivity
Sunday, February 24, 2013

Dopants Dramatically Alter Electronic Structure of Superconductor
Sunday, February 17, 2013

Breakthrough Iron-based Superconductors Set New Performance Records
Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Scientists Chart the Emergence of High-Temperature Superconductivity
Monday, November 19, 2012

X-rays Reveal Spin Waves in Two-Dimensional High-Temperature Superconductors
Monday, September 3, 2012

Brookhaven Lab’s Ivan Bozovic Wins Bernd T. Matthias Prize for Superconducting Materials
Monday, June 18, 2012

Atomic-scale Visualization of Electron Pairing in Iron Superconductors
Thursday, May 3, 2012

Brookhaven Lab Physicist Genda Gu Named American Physical Society Fellow
Friday, March 2, 2012

Impurity Atoms Introduce Waves of Disorder in Exotic Electronic Material
Monday, October 17, 2011

Department of Energy Awards $156 Million for Groundbreaking Energy Research Projects
Thursday, September 29, 2011

Link Between Competing Phases in Cuprates Leads to New Theory
Thursday, July 21, 2011

Ultrathin Copper-Oxide Layers Behave Like Quantum Spin Liquid
Friday, June 10, 2011

Exploring the Superconducting Transition in Ultra Thin Films
Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Giant Proximity Effect Enhances High-Temperature Superconductivity
Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Sharpening Images of High-Temperature Superconductors
Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Finding the Right Superconducting ‘Flavor’
Monday, March 21, 2011

Room-Temperature Superconductivity: Prospects and Challenges
Sunday, March 20, 2011

Fleeting Fluctuations in Superconductivity Disappear Close to Transition Temperature
Sunday, February 13, 2011

Brookhaven Lab’s Top 5 Scientific Discoveries of 2010
Friday, January 14, 2011

Brookhaven Scientist Peter Johnson Shares American Physical Society Oliver E. Buckley Prize
Thursday, December 2, 2010

Grant Funds Superconducting Magnet Energy Storage Research at Brookhaven Lab
Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Brookhaven Lab Physicist William Sampson Receives IEEE Award for Applied Superconductivity Research
Thursday, August 12, 2010

Brookhaven Lab Physicist Simon Billinge Receives the J.D. Hanawalt Award from the International Centre for Diffraction Data
Thursday, August 5, 2010

Key Advance in Understanding ‘Pseudogap’ Phase in High-Tc Superconductors
Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Scientists Create Nano-Patterned Superconducting Thin Films
Sunday, June 13, 2010

First Images of Heavy Electrons in Action
Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Student at Brookhaven Lab Wins Award From Chinese Government for Energy Research
Thursday, May 20, 2010

J.C. Séamus Davis Elected to the National Academy of Sciences
Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Brookhaven Lab's Cedomir Petrovic Receives the Marko Jaric Award for Outstanding Achievements in Physics
Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Meigan Aronson Named Department of Defense Security Fellow
Thursday, February 18, 2010

Electronic Liquid Crystal States Discovered in Parent of Iron-Based Superconductor
Thursday, January 7, 2010

Absorbing Hydrogen Fluoride Gas to Enhance Crystal Growth
Thursday, December 10, 2009

Pinning Down Superconductivity to a Single Layer
Thursday, October 29, 2009

Puzzled Physicists Solve Decade-Long Discrepancies
Friday, October 9, 2009

Scientists Detect 'Fingerprint' of High-Temp Superconductivity Above Transition Temperature
Thursday, August 27, 2009

Magnetic Measurements Question Assumptions About High-Tc Superconductors
Sunday, August 2, 2009

Brookhaven Physicists Win Onnes Prize for Superconductivity Experiments
Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Research Offers New Insights, and a New Angle, on High-Temperature Superconductivity
Tuesday, June 30, 2009

DOE to Establish Energy Frontier Research Center at Brookhaven Lab
Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Disappearing Superconductivity Reappears — in 2-D
Monday, December 1, 2008

Electron Pairs Precede High-Temperature Superconductivity
Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Scientists Engineer Superconducting Thin Films
Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Brookhaven Lab Scientist Masaki Suenaga Receives IEEE Award for Applied Superconductivity Research
Monday, September 15, 2008

Scientists Reveal Effects of Quantum "Traffic Jam" in High-Temperature Superconductors
Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Where's the glue?
Thursday, April 10, 2008

Unlocking the Secrets of High-temperature Superconductors
Wednesday, March 7, 2007

One Mystery of High-Tc Superconductivity Resolved
Thursday, November 16, 2006

More Evidence for "Stripes" in High-Temperature Superconductors
Wednesday, April 26, 2006

New Wrinkle in the Mystery of High-Tc Superconductors
Thursday, March 16, 2006

Helping Out a High-Temperature Superconductor
Wednesday, September 14, 2005

Research on "Holes" May Unearth Causes of Superconductivity
Wednesday, October 27, 2004

New Physics Law Unifies Several Superconducting Compounds
Friday, July 30, 2004

Why Calcium Improves a High-Temperature Superconductor
Monday, June 7, 2004

Fluid "Stripes" May Be Essential for High-Temperature Superconductivity
Wednesday, June 2, 2004

Another Twist in the Field of Superconductivity
Tuesday, March 23, 2004

Scientists Investigate the Mechanism Behind High-Temperature Superconductivity
Monday, February 23, 2004
Features

Longstanding Model Fails to Explain Spin Dynamics in 1D Cuprates
Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Peeling Back the Layers: Exploring Capping Effects on Nickelate Superconductivity
Friday, January 17, 2025

Slow Atomic Movements Shed New Light on Unconventional Superconductivity
Monday, December 9, 2024

X-rays Reveal Electronic Details of Nickel-based Superconductors
Monday, April 17, 2023

524th Brookhaven Lecture: Magnetism, Superconductivity, and Neutron Scattering
Tuesday, February 22, 2022

Understanding the Physics in New Metals
Monday, July 19, 2021

Physicists Uncover Secrets of World's Thinnest Superconductor
Friday, May 28, 2021

"Choosy" Electronic Correlations Dominate Metallic State of Iron Superconductor
Wednesday, October 3, 2018

Breaking Electron Waves Provide New Clues to High-Temperature Superconductivity
Tuesday, December 5, 2017

Surprising Stripes in a "Bad Metal" Offer Clues to High-Temperature Superconductivity
Monday, June 5, 2017

Room-Temp Superconductors Could Be Possible
Wednesday, September 28, 2016

Supercooled Cavities for Particle Acceleration
Tuesday, May 3, 2016

Upgrades to ATLAS and LHC Magnets for Run 2 and Beyond
Monday, July 6, 2015

Séamus Davis Selected to Receive New Grant for Exploring Exotic Quantum Phenomena
Wednesday, October 15, 2014

Unstoppable Magnetoresistance
Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Brookhaven Lab's Alexei Tsvelik Receives Prestigious Humboldt Research Award
Friday, August 22, 2014

New Grant to Aid Search for the Secrets of Superconductivity
Tuesday, August 12, 2014

MIT/National Labs Team Visualizes Complex Electronic State
Wednesday, May 21, 2014

Simon Billinge Named 2014 NSSA Fellow
Friday, March 7, 2014

Séamus Davis Awarded Honorary Degree by National University of Ireland
Monday, December 2, 2013

Backup Magnets Ready to Ship to LHC
Monday, September 30, 2013

Superconducting Magnet Researchers Develop Exciting New HTS Technology
Friday, October 5, 2012

Next Generation of Superconducting Magnets
Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Meet Jason Graetz and Qiang Li
Monday, February 6, 2012

Eight BNL Researchers Honored as New York State Leaders In Superconductivity
Monday, August 22, 2011

Brookhaven-Built Magnet Will Catch Subatomic Debris at FRIB
Monday, December 20, 2010

Brookhaven Lab Materials Scientist Participates in Statewide Superconductivity Summit
Monday, December 13, 2010

Expanding the Toolbox for Superconducting Film Investigations
Tuesday, November 2, 2010

ARPA-E to Power Superconducting Magnet Energy Storage Project
Thursday, September 9, 2010

An Advance in Superconducting Magnet Technology Opens the Door for More Powerful Colliders
Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Jinsheng Wen: Working on a Superconducting Energy Solution
Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Recovery Act Pushes High-Field Magnet Development Forward
Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Finding the Path of Least Resistance
Wednesday, July 22, 2009