2021 News
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Top-10 Areas of Amazing Science at Brookhaven Lab in 2021
Wednesday, December 29, 2021

National Labs, Alliance for Green Heat Announce New Push to Modernize the Wood Stove
Monday, December 20, 2021

Susan McKeon Named Brookhaven Lab's Associate Director for Business Services
Thursday, December 16, 2021

Start-up of 22nd Run at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC)
Monday, December 13, 2021

Brookhaven Lab Awarded $8M for Electric Vehicle Battery Research
Wednesday, December 8, 2021

Department of Energy Announces $5.7 Million for Research on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) for Nuclear Physics Accelerators and Detectors
Friday, December 3, 2021

Clouds, Aerosols, and Air Quality in the Coastal Urban Environment
Wednesday, December 1, 2021

Revolutionizing Data Access Through Tiled
Wednesday, November 24, 2021

Converting Methane to Methanol—With and Without Water
Monday, November 8, 2021

Next-Gen Semiconductor Manufacturing Tech Wins DOE National Pitch Competition
Monday, November 1, 2021

Researchers Use New X-ray Technique to Conserve Henry VIII's Favorite Warship
Friday, October 29, 2021

MicroBooNE Experiment's First Results Show No Hint of a Sterile Neutrino
Wednesday, October 27, 2021

Two Brookhaven Lab Physicists Named APS Fellows
Monday, October 18, 2021

Jose Rodriguez Named Fellow of the American Vacuum Society
Friday, October 15, 2021

Direct Photons Offer Glimpse of Gluons' Dynamic Motion
Tuesday, October 12, 2021

Getting up to Speed on the Proton
Tuesday, October 12, 2021

New Results from the RHIC Spin Program
Thursday, October 7, 2021

DOE's Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Program Selects 65 Outstanding U.S. Graduate Students
Monday, October 4, 2021

Does Pollution Make Thunderstorms More Severe?
Monday, September 27, 2021

Scientists ID Sterol Essential for Oil Accumulation in Plants
Wednesday, September 22, 2021

Physicists Probe Light Smashups to Guide Future Research
Tuesday, September 21, 2021

How to Catch a Perfect Wave: Scientists Take a Closer Look Inside the Perfect Fluid
Monday, September 20, 2021

Catalyst Study Advances Carbon-Dioxide-to-Ethanol Conversion
Friday, September 10, 2021

The Mystery of the Flexible Shell
Friday, September 10, 2021

Perovskite LEDs Shine in Metal-Organic Framework
Wednesday, September 8, 2021

Toward Scaling Up Nanocages to Trap Noble Gases
Wednesday, September 1, 2021

Results from Search for 'Chiral Magnetic Effect' at RHIC
Tuesday, August 31, 2021

Increasing Sugar Availability for Oil Synthesis
Monday, August 30, 2021

Revving Up to Advance Battery Research for Electric Vehicles
Tuesday, August 24, 2021

Layered Graphene with a Twist Displays Unique Quantum Confinement in 2-D
Friday, August 20, 2021

Scientists ID Enzyme for Making Key Industrial Chemical in Plants
Thursday, August 5, 2021

Collisions of Light Produce Matter/Antimatter from Pure Energy
Wednesday, July 28, 2021

Scientific Publishing Organizations and National Laboratories Partner on Transgender-Inclusive Name-Change Process for Published Papers
Wednesday, July 28, 2021

Wolfram Fischer Named Chair of Brookhaven Lab's Collider-Accelerator Department
Friday, July 16, 2021

Brookhaven Lab Physicist Receives Microanalysis Society's Peter Duncumb Award
Wednesday, July 14, 2021

Electron-Ion Collider Achieves Critical Decision 1 Approval
Tuesday, July 6, 2021

Putting Functional Proteins in Their Place
Friday, June 25, 2021

Alex Harris Named Energy Sciences Director at Brookhaven Lab
Friday, June 18, 2021

Brookhaven Lab Celebrates Top Science Fair Students
Tuesday, June 15, 2021

Physicists Achieve Significant Improvement in Spotting Accelerator-produced Neutrinos in a Cosmic Haystack
Wednesday, June 9, 2021

How COVID-19 Wreaks Havoc on Human Lungs
Tuesday, June 8, 2021

Lighting Up Ultrafast Magnetism in a Metal Oxide
Monday, June 7, 2021

Scientists Discover New Approach to Stabilize Cathode Materials
Thursday, June 3, 2021

Three Brookhaven Scientists to Receive Early Career Research Program Funding
Friday, May 28, 2021

Al Rielly Named Manager of Brookhaven Lab's Occupational Medicine Clinic
Wednesday, May 26, 2021

Physicists Find a Novel Way to Switch Antiferromagnetism On and Off
Thursday, May 6, 2021

Brookhaven Lab Honors Top Students in Bridge and Maglev Contests
Wednesday, May 5, 2021

Esther Takeuchi Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Tuesday, May 4, 2021

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

Mapping Performance Variations to See How Lithium-Metal Batteries Fail
Monday, April 19, 2021

Brookhaven Lab Names New Nuclear and Particle Physics Directorate Lead
Thursday, April 15, 2021

Suppression of COVID-19 Waves Reflects Time-Dependent Social Activity, Not Herd Immunity
Tuesday, April 13, 2021

First Results from Fermilab's Muon g-2 Experiment Strengthen Evidence of New Physics
Wednesday, April 7, 2021

Brookhaven to Receive Department of Energy Funding for Battery Manufacturing
Thursday, April 1, 2021

ATOM Consortium Welcomes Three DOE National Laboratories to Accelerate Drug Discovery
Monday, March 29, 2021

Explosive Origins of 'Secondary' Ice—and Snow
Monday, March 22, 2021

Building Tough 3D Nanomaterials with DNA
Friday, March 19, 2021

Lena Funcke Receives Leona Woods Lectureship Award
Thursday, March 18, 2021

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

Scientists Describe Detector Goals for Electron-Ion Collider (EIC)
Tuesday, March 16, 2021

Tantalizing Signs of Phase-change 'Turbulence' in RHIC Collisions
Friday, March 5, 2021

Great Neck South Wins Virtual Regional Middle School Science Bowl
Wednesday, March 3, 2021

Chemistry Goes Under Cover
Tuesday, March 2, 2021

Alejandro Sonzogni is New Chair of Nuclear Science and Technology Department
Friday, February 26, 2021

Erick Hunt to Lead Strategic Partnership Programs Office
Friday, February 19, 2021

Tuning Electrode Surfaces to Optimize Solar Fuel Production
Thursday, February 18, 2021

Amy Engel Named Manager of Environmental and Community Engagement at Brookhaven Lab
Tuesday, February 16, 2021

Study Reveals Platinum's Role in Clean Fuel Conversion
Wednesday, February 10, 2021

Great Neck South Wins 2021 Regional High School Science Bowl
Friday, February 5, 2021

Chemists Settle Battery Debate, Propel Research Forward
Thursday, January 28, 2021

RHIC Run 21: Pushing the Limits at the Lowest Collision Energy
Monday, January 25, 2021

Tiny Particles that Seed Clouds Can Form from Trace Gases Over Open Sea
Friday, January 22, 2021

DNA Origami Enables Fabricating Superconducting Nanowires
Tuesday, January 19, 2021

Scientists Streamline Process for Controlling Spin Dynamics
Monday, January 18, 2021

Light-induced Twisting of Weyl Nodes Switches on Giant Electron Current
Monday, January 18, 2021

Science Begins at Brookhaven Lab's New Cryo-EM Research Facility
Thursday, January 14, 2021

Brookhaven Lab's Top-10 Stories of 2020
Wednesday, January 6, 2021

Scientists Discover Plants' Roadblock to Specialty Oil Production
Monday, January 4, 2021
Features

Oral and Gut Microbes Can Inactivate an Antidiabetic Drug, Princeton Scientists Find
Tuesday, December 28, 2021

Researchers Discover Critical Role of Hydrogen Sulfide in Ability of Bacteria to Survive Antibiotics
Monday, December 27, 2021

New Material Could Pave Way for Better, Safer Batteries
Wednesday, December 22, 2021

New Model Accurately Describes COVID-19 Waves and Plateaus
Tuesday, December 14, 2021

522nd Brookhaven Lecture: Garth Williams, NSLS-II
Tuesday, December 14, 2021

DUNE Collaboration Starts Production of Components for Its Gigantic Neutrino Detector
Wednesday, December 8, 2021

Meet Longtime IBM/Brookhaven Lab Scientist Jean Jordan-Sweet
Wednesday, December 1, 2021

ModSim 2021: The Future of Modeling and Simulation Gets a Nod from the Past
Tuesday, November 30, 2021

EIC User Profile: Cristiano Fanelli
Monday, November 29, 2021

Developing the Next Generation of Particle Accelerator Talent
Monday, November 29, 2021

Researchers Team up to get a Clearer Picture of Molten Salts
Monday, November 29, 2021

Successful RHIC Run 21 Completes Beam Energy Scan II
Thursday, November 18, 2021

Tri-Lab Effort Makes Strides Toward Increasing Supply of Ac-225
Thursday, November 18, 2021

521st Brookhaven Lecture: Plants, Climate Change, Photosynthesis
Friday, November 12, 2021

Physics on Autopilot
Wednesday, November 10, 2021

Brookhaven Lab and Small Business Partner to Advance Characterization Tools
Wednesday, November 10, 2021

Brookhaven Lab's Julia Gehrlein Wins Fundamental Physics Innovation Award
Monday, November 8, 2021

In Memoriam: Martin Blume, Former Brookhaven Lab Deputy Director
Friday, November 5, 2021

Drone Flights Give Scientists Better Data on Vegetation in the Arctic Tundra
Tuesday, November 2, 2021

Scientists Spot Rare Neutrino Signal for Big Physics Finding
Wednesday, October 27, 2021

Study Sheds Light on Photosynthesis in Iron-Low Leaves
Wednesday, October 27, 2021

Additively Manufacturing a Better Steel: The Key Could be in Synchrotron X-ray Techniques
Tuesday, October 26, 2021

Brookhaven Lab Hosts Live Q&A on Dark Matter, 10/28
Tuesday, October 26, 2021

Imaging the Chemical Fingerprints of Molecules
Monday, October 25, 2021

To Mask or Not to Mask: Study Provides Mechanism to Test Materials
Thursday, October 21, 2021

520th Brookhaven Lecture: Electrons in Quantum Materials
Thursday, October 21, 2021

Zhongwei Dai: Exploring the Strange Quantum World of 2D Materials
Thursday, October 21, 2021

Key Magnet Installed at sPHENIX Detector
Wednesday, October 20, 2021

EIC User Profile: Theoretical Nuclear and Particle Physicist Jennifer Rittenhouse West
Monday, October 11, 2021

EIC User Profile: Francesco Bossu
Wednesday, October 6, 2021

Brookhaven Lab's Graham Smith Named a Battelle 'Inventor of the Year'
Tuesday, October 5, 2021

How to Train Your Magnet
Tuesday, October 5, 2021

Accelerator Physicist Irina Petrushina Named Blavatnik Regional Awards Finalist
Thursday, September 30, 2021

Connecting the Dots Between Material Properties and Qubit Performance
Thursday, September 30, 2021

Connections with Impact
Tuesday, September 28, 2021

Celebrating National Nanotechnology Day, October 9
Monday, September 27, 2021

Mobile Observatory Surveys Manhattan Atmosphere
Friday, September 24, 2021

Researchers "Watch" Molten Salts Carve Tiny Nooks and Tunnels into Metal Alloys in 3D
Wednesday, September 22, 2021

Brookhaven Lab and Euclid Techlabs to Develop Coated Cathodes for Electron-Ion Collider
Monday, September 20, 2021

Long Island Institutions Model the Future of Diverse STEM Education
Friday, September 17, 2021

Observing Oxidation at the Atomic Level with Guangwen Zhou
Wednesday, September 15, 2021

ECP Selects Sunita Chandrasekaran as Principal Investigator of the SOLLVE Project
Wednesday, September 15, 2021

Making High-Quality Materials with Mingzhao Liu
Wednesday, September 15, 2021

Fueling Scientific Discovery and Communication
Wednesday, September 15, 2021

Anže Slosar: Then and Now
Tuesday, September 14, 2021

U.S. Department of Energy Announces $61 Million to Advance Breakthroughs in Quantum Information Science
Wednesday, September 8, 2021

X-ray Technique Sheds Fresh Light on Correlated Metals
Tuesday, September 7, 2021

DOE Invests Millions for Research in Data Reduction for Science
Tuesday, September 7, 2021

EIC User Profile: Rachel Montgomery
Thursday, September 2, 2021

EIC User Profile: Prabhakar Palni
Friday, August 27, 2021

Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm Visits Brookhaven Lab
Wednesday, August 25, 2021

519th Brookhaven Lecture on 'Low-Dimensional' Nanomaterials
Monday, August 23, 2021

Summer Sundays Offer Virtual Tour of Brookhaven Lab
Friday, August 20, 2021

U.S. Department of Energy Announces $6 Million Towards 5G Advanced Wireless Networks
Wednesday, August 18, 2021

C2QA Jumpstarts the Quantum Workforce with New Summer Program
Wednesday, August 18, 2021

Probing the Powers of Zeolites
Monday, August 16, 2021

Through the Thin-film Glass, Researchers Spot a New Liquid Phase
Friday, August 13, 2021

Tracking Pileups on Battery Charging Route to Drive Performance
Wednesday, August 11, 2021

EIC User Profile: Alexander Jentsch
Thursday, August 5, 2021

Student Researchers Published Study on Micrometeorites
Wednesday, August 4, 2021

Vera C. Rubin Observatory Staff Highlight: HyeYun Park
Tuesday, August 3, 2021

EIC User Profile: Vaibhavi Gawas
Tuesday, August 3, 2021

Shih-Ting (Christine) Wang: Designing Materials for Biomedicine
Monday, August 2, 2021

Berkeley Lab's CAMERA Leads International Effort on Autonomous Scientific Discoveries
Wednesday, July 28, 2021

Automatically Steering Experiments Toward Scientific Discovery
Wednesday, July 28, 2021

Recognizing 314 Staff for Distinguished Contributions and Milestone Anniversaries
Monday, July 26, 2021

Meet the 2020 Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Award Recipients
Monday, July 26, 2021

Meet the 2020 Brookhaven Award Honorees
Monday, July 26, 2021

Meet the 2020 Engineering Award Recipients
Monday, July 26, 2021

Meet the 2020 Science & Technology Award Recipients
Monday, July 26, 2021

2021 Scharff-Goldhaber Prize Ceremony and Talk, 7/29
Wednesday, July 21, 2021

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

Tune in to the Hispanic Heritage Group's 2021 STEM Scholarship Ceremony 7/20
Friday, July 16, 2021

2021 AAAG STEM Scholarship Awards Ceremony, 7/20
Friday, July 16, 2021

ATLAS Confirms Universality of Key Particle Interactions
Friday, July 9, 2021

Meet Berenice Garcia
Wednesday, July 7, 2021

sPHENIX Assembly Shifts into Visible High Gear
Wednesday, July 7, 2021

Meet Jeff Ouellette
Wednesday, July 7, 2021

Virtual Summer Sundays Return
Friday, July 2, 2021

Recreating a Step in the Evolution of Viruses
Thursday, July 1, 2021

Exploring the Electrochemistry of Water-Based Batteries
Thursday, July 1, 2021

UH Hosts Two-Year Pilot Program for Minority Physics Students
Wednesday, June 30, 2021

Department of Energy Announces $2.85 Million to Support Undergraduate Research Traineeships at HBCUs and other MSIs
Wednesday, June 30, 2021

Solar Energy Collectors Grown From Seeds
Tuesday, June 29, 2021

Uncovering Hidden Local States in a Quantum Material
Monday, June 28, 2021

Innovative Process That Removes Key Hurdle for Next-Generation Solar Cells Is Also a Lockbox for Greenhouse Gases
Wednesday, June 23, 2021

Unraveling the Origin of Alzheimer's Disease
Monday, June 21, 2021

Pride Alliance and BWIS Speaker Laurel Hiatt: "They/Them in STEM" 6/23
Thursday, June 17, 2021

Meet BSA's 2021 Scholarship Awardees
Tuesday, June 15, 2021

Brookhaven Lab Intern Returns to Continue Theoretical Physics Pursuit
Monday, June 14, 2021

Stefaniak and Dunkin Win 2021 Chasman Award; Virtual Ceremony and Talks 6/29
Thursday, June 3, 2021

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

Research Team Develops New Class of Soft Materials
Monday, May 24, 2021

Capturing the Chemistry of Light-Activated Cancer Drugs with Ruomei Gao
Friday, May 21, 2021

Leveraging DNA to Create Advanced, Usable Materials with Jason Kahn
Friday, May 21, 2021

New Dual-Beam Microscope Installed at the Center for Functional Nanomaterials
Tuesday, May 18, 2021

NSLS-II User Profile: Geneva Laurita, Bates College
Wednesday, May 12, 2021

Massive Fragment Screen Points Way to New SARS-CoV-2 Inhibitors
Friday, May 7, 2021

Brookhaven Lab and Northrop Grumman to Further Lab-Industry Collaborations
Monday, May 3, 2021

ANSTO's X-ray Techniques Support Improvements in Solar
Friday, April 30, 2021

Safely Probing Chernobyl Fuel Simulants with X-rays
Monday, April 26, 2021

Synthesis Method Expands Material Possibilities
Friday, April 23, 2021

AI Agent Helps Identify Material Properties Faster
Tuesday, April 20, 2021

Goldhaber Distinguished Fellowships: Call for Applications
Monday, April 19, 2021

Howard-Brookhaven Partnership Empowers Minorities in STEM
Friday, April 16, 2021

AAAG STEM & Vincent J. Castillo STEM Scholarship Applications Due 5/17
Thursday, April 15, 2021

Moving Toward a Clean-Energy Future by Advancing Fuel Cell Technology
Tuesday, April 13, 2021

The Science Behind the Shot: Biotech Tools Developed at Brookhaven Lab Fundamental to Making COVID-19 Vaccines
Tuesday, April 13, 2021

Searching for the Holy Grail of Higgs Physics
Thursday, April 8, 2021

Background on Brookhaven Lab's Involvement in the Muon g-2 Experiment
Wednesday, April 7, 2021

Mow Shiah Lin Scholarship for College Students of Asian Heritage: Apply by 6/5
Wednesday, April 7, 2021

Deadline Extended to 4/15: Apply Now for Gertrude Scharff-Goldhaber Prize
Tuesday, April 6, 2021

Finding Gene Neighbors Leads to New Protein Functions
Monday, April 5, 2021

LI High School Seniors: Apply Now for the Hispanic Heritage Group's 2021 STEM Scholarship
Monday, April 5, 2021

Mutant Gene-Targeted Immunotherapy Approach Developed
Friday, April 2, 2021

Debbie Bauer Receives Diversity in Business Award
Wednesday, March 31, 2021

The Mystery of the Muon's Magnetism
Tuesday, March 30, 2021

Game on: Science Edition
Thursday, March 25, 2021

Yingqi Cai: Passion for Plants Leads to Promising Biofuel Research
Wednesday, March 24, 2021

Howard University Professor to Receive First Joseph A. Johnson Award
Wednesday, March 24, 2021

Argonne Scientists Help Explain Phenomenon in Hardware That Could Revolutionize AI
Monday, March 15, 2021

Celebrate Pi Day with MoMath and NSLS-II
Sunday, March 14, 2021

AFRL Launches Collaborative Biosensor Effort to Detect Stress and Fatigue Biomarkers
Wednesday, March 10, 2021

Meet Dr. Anibal Boscoboinik: Staff Scientist, CFN, Brookhaven National Lab
Tuesday, March 9, 2021

Searching for Signs of 'Glueballs' in Proton-Proton Smashups
Tuesday, March 9, 2021

Meet Sidra Zia and Welcome Her Back to Brookhaven Lab
Friday, March 5, 2021

Webinar with Sec. Granholm 3/4: National Labs in the Fight: Marshalling DOE's Scientific Prowess to Combat COVID-19
Wednesday, March 3, 2021

'Girl Power in Stem: Choose to Challenge!' Saturday, 3/6
Wednesday, March 3, 2021

Green Algae Reveals One mRNA Encodes Many Proteins
Tuesday, February 23, 2021

'Forward' Jet-tracking Components Installed at RHIC's STAR Detector
Monday, February 22, 2021

Talty Receives 2020 Gorman-Metz Scholarship
Friday, February 19, 2021

In Memoriam: Frederick Molone
Wednesday, February 17, 2021

Professor Margaret Martonosi elected to the National Academy of Engineering
Friday, February 12, 2021

HL-LHC Accelerator Upgrade Project Receives Approval to Move Full-speed-ahead
Wednesday, February 10, 2021

Virtual Talk, Q&A: COVID-19 Research at Brookhaven Lab
Wednesday, February 10, 2021

In Memoriam: Istvan Dioszegi
Wednesday, February 3, 2021

What is Luminosity?
Tuesday, February 2, 2021

Brookhaven Women in Science Now Accepting Applications for 2021 Gertrude Scharff-Goldhaber Prize
Monday, February 1, 2021

Brookhaven Physicist Robert Palmer Retires After 60 Years
Wednesday, January 27, 2021

Operating Efficiently and Compliantly with Essala Lowe
Tuesday, January 19, 2021

Designing Materials from First Principles with Yuan Ping
Tuesday, January 19, 2021

Brookhaven Lab Interns Study Airborne COVID-19 Spread
Wednesday, January 13, 2021

Brookhaven Intern Caroline Sears Analyzes Nuclear Fission Yields
Friday, January 8, 2021

Apply Now for 2021 Chasman Award for Women
Thursday, January 7, 2021