Prolific and award-winning inventor and electrochemist Esther Takeuchi joins BNL June 8, 2012 Esther Takeuchi, Brookhaven Lab’s new Chief Scientist for the Global and Regional Solutions directorate, visits the construction site of the Interdisciplinary …
June 7, 2012 UPTON, NY — Participants in Pianofest, a summer workshop held in the Hamptons, will be showcased in two recitals at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory on Wednesday, June 27, and Wednesday, July 25, at noon in …
June 5, 2012 The MINOS far detector is located in a cavern half a mile underground in the Soudan Underground Laboratory, Minnesota. The 100-foot-long MINOS far detector consists of 486 massive octagonal planes, lined up like the slices of a loaf of bread. …
Findings suggest ways to increase oil production for biofuels and industrial processes June 4, 2012 Former Brookhaven postdoc Carl Andre and Brookhaven biochemist John Shanklin. UPTON, NY — Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven …
May 22, 2012 Ingrid Daubechies UPTON, NY — Ingrid Daubechies, a physicist and mathematician will give a talk entitled, “Surfing With Wavelets” at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory on Thursday, June 7, at 4 p.m. in …
Ever-increasing data needs inspire evolutionary and revolutionary advances May 17, 2012 EVENT: More than 500 physicists and computational scientists from around the globe, including many working at the world’s largest and most complex particle …
May 14, 2012 UPTON, NY — More than 540 science projects from 118 Suffolk County schools were entered into the 2012 Elementary School Science Fair, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory. The Laboratory’s Office of …
Low-cost non-noble electrocatalyst efficiently generates hydrogen gas for fuel May 9, 2012 This magnified image from a transmission electron microscope reveals details of the unexpected nanosheet structure of the nickel-molybdenum-nitride catalyst, seen …
May 4, 2012 Petra Huetenmeyer UPTON, NY — Petra Huetenmeyer of Michigan Technological University will give a talk titled “Searching the Universe for Highly Energetic Cosmic Particles and Role Models,” at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven …
Accessibility of electron microscopes could make technique standard practice May 4, 2012 Simon Billinge Photo credit: Eileen Barroso for Columbia Engineering UPTON, NY — With dimensions measuring billionths of a meter, nanoparticles are way too …
Findings support magnetic pairing theory that could lead to new improved superconductors May 3, 2012 Data supports role of magnetism in iron-based superconductors : The height of each dot in this image represents the superconducting energy gap — a …
May 1, 2012 Radoslav Adzic Written by Natalie Crnosija The New York Intellectual Property Law Association (NYIPLA) has honored Radoslav Adzic, a senior chemist at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory, with its 2012 …
Celebration of construction milestones for new facility that will allow unprecedented research in energy, materials, medicine April 26, 2012 An aerial view of the NSLS-II construction site Upton, NY – Construction of the $912-million National …
April 24, 2012 An artistic rendering of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, with a man standing beside for perspective of the camera's size. (Image courtesy LSST Project) A 3.2 billion-pixel digital camera designed by SLAC is now one step closer …
Findings may offer clues to superior performance and guide synthesis of materials with improved properties April 24, 2012 Structural details of photovoltaic material revealed: The bilayer polymer backbone motif (3D image) is derived from the x-ray …
April 19, 2012 Triveni Rao UPTON, NY — Triveni Rao, a senior physicist at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory, will be honored as a distinguished Asian American professional at a ceremony on May 12, 2012 at the Asian Pacific …
April 18, 2012 Collaborators from Photon Sciences and Sustainable Energy Technologies stand behind the new transmission x-ray microscope (TXM) at Brookhaven’s National Synchrotron Light Source. From left: Yu-chen Karen Chen-Wiegart, Can Erdonmez, Jun Wang …
April 12, 2012 Los Alamos scientist Meiring Nortier holds a thorium foil test target for the proof-of-concept production experiments. Research indicates that it will bepossible to match current annual, worldwide production of Ac-225 in just two to five …
Research spurs innovations in computing technology that drive advances to supercomputers March 29, 2012 This diagram illustrates the wide range of distance scales that must be understood before the kaon-decay calculation can be performed. The lowest …
Brookhaven Lab highlights at the April 2012 meeting of the American Physical Society March 28, 2012 What was the universe like microseconds after the Big Bang? Can you catch an elusive neutrino in a watery liquid? What features will the world’s newest …
