2021 News
News Releases
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
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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
EIC User Profile: Vaibhavi Gawas
Tuesday, August 3, 2021
Vera C. Rubin Observatory Staff Highlight: HyeYun Park
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 Engineering Award Recipients
Monday, July 26, 2021
Meet the 2020 Brookhaven Award Honorees
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
Department of Energy Announces $2.85 Million to Support Undergraduate Research Traineeships at HBCUs and other MSIs
Wednesday, June 30, 2021
UH Hosts Two-Year Pilot Program for Minority Physics Students
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
Black History Month at Brookhaven Lab
Sunday, February 28, 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
