September 2024

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  Embarking on the Next Chapter

  NSLS-II Director Elke Arenholz shares updates on successful summer outreach activities, new beamlines, our upcoming 10-year anniversary of first light, and more.
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  Studying "Excitons" in a Novel Magnetic Material

  Understanding these quasiparticles could be key to unlocking and harnessing new technologies. 
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  Pioneering the Cellular Frontier

  Brookhaven researchers explore a single cell using advanced X-ray imaging techniques.
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  Conquering Cleaner Catalysis

  2024 Goldhaber Distinguished Fellowship awardee Steve Farrell reflects on how humanity's challenges drive his research.
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  NSLS-II & CFN Users' Meeting Celebrates Togetherness and Great Science

  Users, staff, and leaders gathered in person, for the first time in years, to share research and discuss the future.
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  Science Short (Video): Recreating Glass from the Past

  Bruce Ravel, a physicist in the Synchrotron Science Group at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, uses synchrotron light at NSLS-II to understand how 19th century artists created a unique shade of red glass for Bangkok's Grand Palace. In this installment of NSLS-II Science Shorts, find out if authentic mosaic glass from the 1830s can be recreated using clues that were picked up with x-ray fluorescence spectroscopy.

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Watching catalysts at work • Imaging the nanoscale • Capturing natural complexity

National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II) shines ultra-bright light into the unknown using an array of advanced scientific instrumentation at beamlines with x-ray, ultraviolet, and infrared light. It is one of the newest and most advanced synchrotron facilities in the world. It enables the study of material properties and functions with nanoscale resolution and exquisite sensitivity. It provides research tools needed to foster new discoveries and create breakthroughs in critical areas of science, such as energy security, environment, and human health. And its journey is just beginning.

NSLS-II is a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facility operated for the DOE Office of Science by Brookhaven National Laboratory under Contract No. DE-SC0012704.

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