2017 News
News Releases

2017's Top-10 Discoveries and Scientific Achievements at Brookhaven National Laboratory
Wednesday, December 27, 2017

Theorists Propose Conditions Needed to Search for New Form of Matter
Monday, December 18, 2017

Shantenu Jha Named Chair of Brookhaven Lab's Center for Data-Driven Discovery
Monday, November 27, 2017

Five Brookhaven Lab Scientists Named 2017 American Physical Society Fellows
Wednesday, November 22, 2017

Brookhaven Lab's Gail Mattson Elected President of International Network of Women Engineers and Scientists
Monday, November 13, 2017

Making Glass Invisible: A Nanoscience-Based Disappearing Act
Tuesday, October 31, 2017

Scientists Spot Explosive Counterpart of LIGO/Virgo's Latest Gravitational Waves
Monday, October 16, 2017

PubSci Science Café and Conversation: The Dark Universe
Thursday, October 12, 2017

Exploring the Exotic World of Quarks and Gluons at the Dawn of the Exascale
Wednesday, October 11, 2017

Scientists Use Machine Learning to Translate 'Hidden' Information that Reveals Chemistry in Action
Tuesday, October 10, 2017

New Efficient Catalyst for Key Step in Artificial Photosynthesis
Tuesday, October 3, 2017

BSA Distinguished Lecture on Wednesday, 10/11: 'The Warped Universe: The One-Hundred-Year Quest to Discover Einstein's Gravitational Waves'
Friday, September 29, 2017

With Extra Sugar, Leaves Get Fat Too
Monday, September 25, 2017

New Evidence for Small, Short-Lived Drops of Early Universe Quark-Gluon Plasma?
Monday, September 18, 2017

Research Center Established to Explore the Least Understood and Strongest Force Behind Visible Matter
Tuesday, August 22, 2017

Three Brookhaven Lab Scientists Selected to Receive Early Career Research Program Funding
Tuesday, August 15, 2017

'Organismic learning' mimics some aspects of human thought
Monday, August 14, 2017

Dark Energy Survey Reveals Most Accurate Measurement of Dark Matter Structure in the Universe
Thursday, August 3, 2017

'Perfect Liquid' Quark-Gluon Plasma is the Most Vortical Fluid
Wednesday, August 2, 2017

Brookhaven Lab to Lead 2017 New York Scientific Data Summit at NYU, Aug. 7–9
Wednesday, August 2, 2017

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

In Memoriam: Satoshi Ozaki
Tuesday, July 25, 2017

Two Events to Mark Major Anniversaries at Brookhaven Lab on Tuesday, 8/1: Commemorative Postmark, Talk on Lab Site History
Tuesday, July 18, 2017

Studying Argon Gas Trapped in Two-Dimensional Array of Tiny "Cages"
Monday, July 17, 2017

Stony Brook University Student Anna Gura Wins 25th Annual Gertrude Scharff-Goldhaber Prize
Thursday, July 13, 2017

Discovery at Your Doorstep: Summer Sundays at Brookhaven Lab Begin July 16
Monday, July 10, 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

Dark Matter Day Is Approaching … but Don't Be Afraid of the Dark
Tuesday, June 27, 2017

Brookhaven Lab Reaches Major Milestone for Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Project
Monday, June 26, 2017

New Efficient, Low-Temperature Catalyst for Converting Water and CO to Hydrogen Gas and CO2
Thursday, June 22, 2017

Pianofest Noon Recitals at Brookhaven Lab June 28 and August 2
Friday, June 16, 2017

X-ray Study Reveals Way to Control Molecular Vibrations that Transmit Heat
Tuesday, June 6, 2017

Scientists Design Molecular System for Artificial Photosynthesis
Friday, June 2, 2017

Muon Magnet's Moment has Arrived
Thursday, June 1, 2017

BSA Distinguished Lecture on Thursday, 6/8: Preventing Tick-borne Disease by Immunizing Mouse Populations
Thursday, June 1, 2017

Heavy Particles Get Caught Up in the Flow
Friday, May 26, 2017

Scientists Demonstrate New Real-Time Technique for Studying Ionic Liquids at Electrode Interfaces
Tuesday, May 16, 2017

From 'Preserve Your Melon' to 'Natural CO2 Filters': Winning Projects at Brookhaven Lab's 2017 Elementary School Science Fair
Thursday, May 11, 2017

Pianist Nadejda Vlaeva to Perform at Brookhaven Lab, May 24
Monday, May 8, 2017

Scientists Launch Flights to Gather Detailed Data on Aerosols and Clouds
Monday, May 8, 2017

Brookhaven's John Shanklin Named a Battelle 'Inventor of the Year'
Friday, April 28, 2017

Scientists Set Record Resolution for Drawing at the One-Nanometer Length Scale
Friday, April 28, 2017

Ward Melville High School's Andrew Zhang Wins Top Honors at Brookhaven Lab's Model Bridge Building Contest
Thursday, April 6, 2017

New Measurements Suggest 'Antineutrino Anomaly' Fueled by Modeling Error
Tuesday, April 4, 2017

Robert Moses Middle School Sweeps Two Categories to Win Top Honors at Brookhaven Lab's Maglev Contest
Monday, March 27, 2017

Chemists ID Catalytic 'Key' for Converting CO2 to Methanol
Thursday, March 23, 2017

Study IDs Link Between Sugar Signaling and Regulation of Oil Production in Plants
Friday, March 17, 2017

Conveyor Belt Innovation Speeds Up Biological Discovery
Wednesday, March 8, 2017

BSA Distinguished Lecture Thursday, 3/23: 'Unlocking the Materials Genome Through Combinatorial Nanoscience'
Tuesday, March 7, 2017

Imaging the Inner Workings of a Sodium–Metal Sulfide Battery for First Time
Monday, March 6, 2017

Water-Repellent Nanotextures Found to Have Excellent Anti-Fogging Abilities
Thursday, March 2, 2017

Korean Guitarist Jiji to Perform at Brookhaven Lab, March 29
Tuesday, February 28, 2017

Francis Alexander Named Deputy Director of Brookhaven Lab's Computational Science Initiative
Wednesday, February 15, 2017

Next-Gen Dark Matter Detector in a Race to Finish Line
Tuesday, February 14, 2017

Scientists Estimate Solar Nebula's Lifetime
Friday, February 10, 2017

Two Brookhaven Lab Physicists Named 2016 American Physical Society Fellows
Thursday, February 9, 2017

Exploring the Matter that Filled the Early Universe
Monday, February 6, 2017

Great Neck South High School Wins Regional Science Bowl at Brookhaven Lab
Thursday, February 2, 2017

Brookhaven National Laboratory's Top-10 Science Successes of 2016
Wednesday, January 11, 2017
Features

Brookhaven Lab Employees Help 20 Local Families Have a Holly, Jolly Holiday
Thursday, December 21, 2017

Q&A with CFN User Xiaowei Teng
Wednesday, December 20, 2017

Katherine Giunta Honored by Positive Behavior Support Community Foundation
Friday, December 15, 2017

Meet NSLS-II's Ashley Shoemaker-Skokov, Rock Climber and Traveler
Thursday, December 14, 2017

Accelerating the Self-Assembly of Nanoscale Patterns for Next-Generation Materials
Wednesday, December 13, 2017

Scientists Engineer Nanoscale Pillars to Act Like Memory Foam
Tuesday, December 12, 2017

How to Map the Phases of the Hottest Substance in the Universe
Monday, December 11, 2017

Novel Lenses Enable X-ray Microscopy With Record Resolution
Friday, December 8, 2017

Final Check as Instruments Set Sail to Track Aerosols Over Southern Ocean
Thursday, December 7, 2017

CFN Scientist Spotlight: Gregory Doerk Guides the Self-Assembly of Materials to Make Diverse Nanoscale Patterns
Thursday, December 7, 2017

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

Nanoscientists Develop New Material with Controllable Pores
Monday, December 4, 2017

New Research Finds Cause of Alloy Weakness
Thursday, November 30, 2017

Veterans Day Ceremony Honors Camp Upton
Wednesday, November 29, 2017

High-Performance Computing Cuts Particle Collision Data Prep Time
Tuesday, November 28, 2017

BWIS Lecture on Thursday, 11/30: 'How a Farm Girl Became a Scientist and Impacted Patients' Lives'
Wednesday, November 22, 2017

First Brookhaven-Built Sky-Imaging Sensor Array Arrives at SLAC
Tuesday, November 21, 2017

Designing New Metal Alloys Using Engineered Nanostructures
Tuesday, November 21, 2017

Case Center at National Synchrotron Light Source II Receives Resource-Sharing Award
Monday, November 20, 2017

Congratulations, 2017 Spotlight Awardees!
Friday, November 17, 2017

Radoslav Adzic Named Senior Scientist Emeritus
Thursday, November 16, 2017

Brookhaven Lab Staff to Participate at SC17
Monday, November 13, 2017

Brookhaven Lab Partners with Seven U.S. Department of Energy Labs to Support and Enhance Medical Data Analysis for U.S. Veterans
Monday, November 13, 2017

Big Bang Pop — Wow!
Friday, November 3, 2017

Howard Gordon Named Senior Scientist Emeritus
Thursday, November 2, 2017

Celebrate the Unseen: Attend a Dark Matter Day Event
Tuesday, October 31, 2017

A Bird's-eye Video and Slideshow of the 'Big 70'
Monday, October 30, 2017

Lab Police Captain David Peter Receives Patriotic Award
Friday, October 27, 2017

Unique High-brilliance X-ray Sheds New Light on Additive Manufacturing Process
Friday, October 27, 2017

NSLS-II User Profiles: Riccardo Comin
Thursday, October 26, 2017

New Radio Telescope at Brookhaven Lab Sees Space in a Different Light
Wednesday, October 25, 2017

BWIS Presentation on Thursday, 10/26: Amazing Women and How They Got the Vote
Tuesday, October 24, 2017

Scientists Solve Fundamental Puzzle in Medical Imaging
Monday, October 23, 2017

Celebrating the Life, Accomplishments of Satoshi Ozaki
Friday, October 20, 2017

The Moon and Gravitational Impacts on NSLS-II
Thursday, October 19, 2017

Using Supercomputers to Delve Ever Deeper into the Building Blocks of Matter
Wednesday, October 18, 2017

Happy 70th Anniversary, Brookhaven Lab!
Monday, October 16, 2017

Stony Brook University Student Jiefu Yin Wins 2017 Mow Shiah Lin Scholarship
Friday, October 13, 2017

70-100 Celebration Draws Large Lab Crowd to Berkner
Friday, October 6, 2017

Summer Intern Jaime Avilés Acosta Studies Materials for Ultra-Fast Particle Detector
Friday, October 6, 2017

Software Developed at Brookhaven Lab Could Advance Synchrotron Science Worldwide
Monday, October 2, 2017

Bringing Diversity into Computational Science Through Student Outreach
Thursday, September 28, 2017

What's NEXT for NSLS-II? Five New, World-class Beamlines
Wednesday, September 27, 2017

Leona Woods Distinguished Postdoctoral Lectureship Award
Tuesday, September 26, 2017

Brookhaven Lab Employee Receives LIBN '30 Under 30' Award
Friday, September 22, 2017

Brookhaven Lab's Computational Science Initiative Begins Effort Focusing on National Security
Thursday, September 21, 2017

BERA/BWIS Summer Camp Science Fair Teaches Scientific Method, Value of Inquisitive Attitude to Campers
Monday, September 18, 2017

Brookhaven's Computational Science Laboratory Accelerates Radar Simulator Code for Cloud Research
Friday, September 15, 2017

BNLers' Adventures for the Solar Eclipse
Friday, September 8, 2017

James Muckerman Named Senior Scientist Emeritus
Thursday, September 7, 2017

David Schlyer Named Senior Scientist Emeritus
Thursday, September 7, 2017

Former Lab Director Samuel Aronson Named Senior Scientist Emeritus
Thursday, September 7, 2017

Vasilis Fthenakis Named Senior Scientist Emeritus
Thursday, September 7, 2017

William Studier Named Senior Scientist Emeritus
Thursday, September 7, 2017

Brookhaven Lab Scientists Granted Emeritus Status
Thursday, September 7, 2017

Jonathan Hanson Named Senior Scientist Emeritus
Thursday, September 7, 2017

Peter Takacs Named Senior Scientist Emeritus
Thursday, September 7, 2017

Laurence Littenberg Named Senior Scientist Emeritus
Thursday, September 7, 2017

Nikolaos Simos Named Senior Scientist Emeritus
Thursday, September 7, 2017

Subramanyam Swaminathan Named Senior Scientist Emeritus
Thursday, September 7, 2017

In Memoriam: Julius Hastings
Thursday, September 7, 2017

Morgan May Named Senior Scientist Emeritus
Thursday, September 7, 2017

Suresh Srivastava Named Senior Medical Scientist Emeritus
Thursday, September 7, 2017

Brookhaven Lab Says Goodbye to its 2017 Summer Interns, Future Leaders
Wednesday, September 6, 2017

In Memoriam: Andrew Seelin
Thursday, August 31, 2017

NIST Laboratory Director Laurie Locascio Visits NSLS-II
Wednesday, August 30, 2017

Texas Southern University Research Team Advances Safety, Efficiency at NSLS-II
Tuesday, August 29, 2017

National Synchrotron Light Source II Celebrates Two Years of User Operations
Monday, August 28, 2017

Q&A with CFN User Vinod Menon
Friday, August 25, 2017

Out of the Classroom and Into the Laboratory
Thursday, August 24, 2017

Abhay Deshpande Named Director of Electron Ion Collider Science at Brookhaven Lab
Tuesday, August 22, 2017

Q&A with CFN Staff Member Gwen Wright
Friday, August 18, 2017

NSLS-II Welcomes New Tool for Studying the Physics of Materials
Thursday, August 17, 2017

Successful Test of Small-Scale Accelerator with Big Potential Impacts for Science and Medicine
Wednesday, August 16, 2017

ATLAS sees first direct evidence of light-by-light scattering at high energy
Monday, August 14, 2017

New Devices to Control X-rays are Less Expensive, Faster to Make
Friday, August 11, 2017

Scientists Find New Method to Control Electronic Properties of Nanocrystals
Thursday, August 10, 2017

In Memoriam: Peter Paul, Former Brookhaven National Laboratory Deputy Director for Science and Technology and Interim Lab Director
Wednesday, August 9, 2017

Meet CFN Director Chuck Black
Wednesday, August 9, 2017

2017 Science & Technology Award Recipients
Monday, August 7, 2017

2017 Engineering Award Recipients
Monday, August 7, 2017

MicroBooNE Produces Clearest Images of Neutrino Interactions Yet
Monday, August 7, 2017

2017 Brookhaven Award Recipients
Monday, August 7, 2017

Brookhaven Lab Recognizes 15 Staff Members at 2017 Employee Awards Ceremony
Monday, August 7, 2017

Atom-Smashing Fun at Brookhaven Lab this Sunday, 8/6
Friday, August 4, 2017

516th Brookhaven Lecture on Tuesday, 8/8: 'From NSLS to NSLS-II and Beyond: Accelerator Physics Challenges'
Friday, August 4, 2017

Summer Sundays: Brilliant Light, Dazzling Discoveries, July 30
Friday, July 28, 2017

Hideto En'yo Named Director of the RIKEN BNL Research Center
Thursday, July 27, 2017

Long Baseline Neutrino Facility Breaks Ground
Wednesday, July 26, 2017

Welcoming a Bright Future: 2017 NSLS-II and CFN Joint Users' Meeting
Tuesday, July 25, 2017

Erick Hunt Named Manager of Research Partnerships at Brookhaven Lab
Monday, July 24, 2017

Summer Sundays: Explore the Ultra Small on July 23
Friday, July 21, 2017

Scientists Design Promising New Cathode for Sodium-based Batteries
Thursday, July 20, 2017

DOE Funds Major Bioenergy Research Center at Illinois Through ISEE, IGB
Tuesday, July 18, 2017

New Milestone Reached: 1000th Lifetime User at NSLS-II
Tuesday, July 18, 2017

2017 RHIC & AGS Annual Users' Meeting: From Protons to Heavy Ions, and Back Again
Wednesday, July 12, 2017

Establishing a Diverse Workforce at the National Laboratories
Tuesday, July 11, 2017

Yale Psychologist Laurie Santos to Speak on 'What Makes Humans Special? Insights From Non-Human Primates' at Brookhaven Lab on Thursday, 7/13
Friday, July 7, 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

Newsday on Friday, 6/30: Special Section on Brookhaven Lab
Thursday, June 29, 2017

In Memoriam: Gar Harbottle
Wednesday, June 28, 2017

National Synchrotron Light Source II User Profiles: Joshua Gallaway and Gautam Yadav
Wednesday, June 28, 2017

Brookhaven Physicist Receives Young Experimental Physicist Prize from European Physical Society
Friday, June 23, 2017

National Synchrotron Light Source II User Profile: Stephan Hruszkewycz
Monday, June 19, 2017

2017 Open Space Stewardship Celebration Honors Environmental Research and Community Outreach Efforts by Local Students
Friday, June 16, 2017

With ARM Instruments Watching, an Extensive Summer Melt in West Antarctica
Thursday, June 15, 2017

University of California, Davis, Scientist Christine Stockert to Give Talk on "Better Wine with X-rays" at Brookhaven Lab, 6/15
Friday, June 9, 2017

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

Annual Water Quality Report Available Now
Tuesday, May 30, 2017

Brookhaven Lab's NSLS-II Reaches Critical Accelerator Milestone – 300 Milliamp Current
Tuesday, May 30, 2017

Meet Brookhaven Science Associates' 2017 College Scholarship Awardees
Friday, May 26, 2017

2017 Julian Baumert Award Goes to Kelli Hvorecny
Thursday, May 25, 2017

Kick-off for the 2017 LHC physics season
Tuesday, May 23, 2017

A 'Wearable' Brain Scanner Inspired by Brookhaven Technology
Wednesday, May 17, 2017

Patchogue-Medford High School Student Builds a Remote Sensing System for ATLAS Detector Components
Friday, May 12, 2017

Low-Energy RHIC Electron Cooling Gets Green Light, Literally
Wednesday, May 10, 2017

Explore Our 70 Years of Discovery and Century of Service
Tuesday, May 9, 2017

Speedy X-Ray Detector Arrives at NSLS-II
Friday, May 5, 2017

Jill Pesce of Smithtown High School East Earns Top Spot in Brookhaven Lab's Twin Anniversary Essay Contest
Thursday, May 4, 2017

Nassau Community College's Natika Newton to Give Talk on "Understanding and Self-Organization" at Brookhaven Lab, May 18
Wednesday, May 3, 2017

Brookhaven Lab Chemist Etsuko Fujita to be Honored at Asian American and Pacific Islander Celebration
Tuesday, May 2, 2017

Unexpected Damage Found Rippling Through Promising Exotic Nanomaterials
Thursday, April 27, 2017

Jingguang Chen is the Recipient of the 2017 Robert Burwell Lectureship in Catalysis
Monday, April 24, 2017

Strengthening Your Networks and Responding to Stress and Strain: What Women in STEM Can Learn from Polymeric Hydrogels
Friday, April 21, 2017

Brookhaven Lab, Stony Brook University Scientists Present Catalysis Research Opportunities at NSLS-II
Friday, April 21, 2017

Brookhaven Lab Joins the OpenMP Architecture Review Board
Thursday, April 20, 2017

Q&A with CFN User Davood Shahrjerdi
Tuesday, April 18, 2017

Stony Brook Opera to Give a Concert of Favorite Art Songs, Opera Arias and Duets at Brookhaven Lab, April 19
Friday, April 14, 2017

Q&A with CFN Scientist Qin Wu
Friday, April 14, 2017

At Brookhaven, 'Wide-Eyed' Visitor Takes in American Science and Culture
Thursday, April 13, 2017

Brookhaven Lab-Led Research Aims to Develop Protections Against Chemical Warfare Agents
Tuesday, April 11, 2017

Brookhaven Lab's Asian Pacific American Association Offers Mow Shiah Lin Scholarship
Monday, April 10, 2017

Brookhaven Lab's Northeast Solar Energy Research Center Complete
Monday, April 10, 2017

High School Students Study Nanoparticles via Video
Friday, April 7, 2017

Brookhaven Women In Science's High School Career Day
Friday, April 7, 2017

Rebecca Trojanowski Wins 'Best Young Researcher Award: Biomass' at European Conference
Monday, April 3, 2017

Visualizing Scientific Big Data in Informative and Interactive Ways
Friday, March 31, 2017

How did the Proton Get Its Spin?
Thursday, March 30, 2017

Next-Generation Software Supports Explorations Beyond the Nanoworld into the Intramolecular Picoworld
Thursday, March 30, 2017

A New Ultrafast Camera for Use Across the Sciences
Wednesday, March 29, 2017

Producing Radioisotopes for Medical Imaging and Disease Treatment
Tuesday, March 21, 2017

37 Lab Staff Members Recognized for Perfect Attendance
Monday, March 20, 2017

National Synchrotron Light Source II User Profiles: Crysten Blaby
Friday, March 17, 2017

Investigating the Benefits of Cooperation
Monday, March 13, 2017

Brookhaven Scientists Named Innovators of the Year
Friday, March 10, 2017

Locust Valley Middle School Wins Regional Science Bowl at Brookhaven Lab
Thursday, March 9, 2017

Secrets to Scientific Success: Planning and Coordination
Wednesday, March 8, 2017

AGEP-T FRAME Scientist Raul Acevedo Studies How Fuel Cells Behave in Space
Wednesday, March 1, 2017

Meet Kétévi Assamagan, Physicist and Explorer
Tuesday, February 28, 2017

Steady Improvement With Time Reporting
Monday, February 27, 2017

Brookhaven Lab's Bjoern Schenke Receives Zimányi Medal
Thursday, February 23, 2017

BWIS Talk: Cosmic Explosions and their Exotic Remnants
Monday, February 13, 2017

Six Brookhaven Lab-Mentored Students Garner Awards at Regeneron and Siemens Science Competitions
Friday, January 27, 2017

U.S. Department of Energy: Science for the People
Wednesday, January 18, 2017

Turning Research Data into Scientific Discoveries
Tuesday, January 17, 2017

Meet the Director: John Hill
Friday, January 13, 2017

sPHENIX Gets CD0 for Upgrade to Experiment Tracking the Building Blocks of Matter
Friday, January 13, 2017

Willy Higinbotham's Video Game Bounces into History
Wednesday, January 11, 2017

Theory Provides Roadmap in Quest for Quark Soup 'Critical Point'
Wednesday, January 4, 2017