14,000 quasars shine a light on the distant universe May 1, 2011 ANAHEIM — Scientists from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-III) have created the largest ever three-dimensional map of the distant universe by using the light of the brightest objects in …
April 29, 2011 UPTON, NY — Two scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory — Senior Chemist Radoslav Adzic and Head of the Laboratory’s Instrumentation Division Veljko Radeka — will be honored today by Battelle, the …
Advanced Energy Systems to Build Accelerator Components for New Light Source April 27, 2011 Written by Mona Rowe NSLS-II construction site UPTON, NY — The U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory has awarded Advanced Energy …
April 21, 2011 Dr. Mow Shiah Lin UPTON, NY — Applications are now being accepted for the seventh Dr. Mow Shiah Lin Scholarship sponsored by the Asian Pacific American Association (APAA) at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National …
April 20, 2011 Thomas A. Steitz UPTON, NY — Nobel Laureate Thomas A. Steitz of Yale University and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, will give a BSA Distinguished Lecture, titled “From the Structure and Function of the Ribosome to New Antibiotics …
DOE and NASA scientists partner in new effort to model how storm clouds contribute to climate April 18, 2011 UPTON, NY — This spring, scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory will head to Oklahoma! — where the …
April 12, 2011 UPTON, NY — As part of its ongoing Entrepreneurs’ Foundation Workshop Series, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory, in conjunction with the Long Island Forum for Technology, will host the rollout of the “New …
Sandwiched superconductors engineered to function at higher temperatures could be used in new ultra-fast superconducting electronics April 12, 2011 Written by Joe Gettler Brookhaven Lab physicist Ivan Bozovic with the molecular beam epitaxy system he …
March 30, 2011 Catherine Mohr UPTON, NY — Catherine Mohr, director of medical research at Intuitive Surgical, Inc., a high technology surgical robotics company, will give a talk titled “From Surgeons to Superheroes — How Robots Can Change the Future …
March 29, 2011 The Prima Trio UPTON, NY — The Prima Trio — consisting of a clarinetist, violin/viola player, and pianist — will perform at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory on Wednesday, April 13, at noon in Berkner Hall …
March 28, 2011 EVENT : More than 850 scientists, engineers, students, and industry representatives will convene in New York City at the end of March for the 2011 Particle Accelerator Conference (PAC’11). The conference is hosted by the U.S. Department of …
Improved x-ray techniques give scientists inside look at electron dynamics in superconductors, other advanced materials March 24, 2011 EVENT: X-rays have long been used to study everything from the insides of the human body to the internal structure of …
March 24, 2011 UPTON, NY — Center Moriches Middle School students won eight of the 21 trophies awarded at the annual Middle School Maglev Contest held at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory on March 23. Students from Longwood …
New exploration techniques could pave the way to room-temperature superconductivity, everyday applications March 23, 2011 EVENT: Despite their name, “high-temperature” superconductors, which carry electric current with no energy loss, require pretty …
Leveraging specificity of life’s genetic-code molecule for rational bottom-up design March 22, 2011 EVENT: The idea of using complementary strands of synthetic DNA as a highly specific “glue” to link up nanoparticles has moved quickly from intriguing …
Lawrence Middle School wins hydrogen fuel cell car challenge March 22, 2011 UPTON, NY — For the third year in a row, students from R.C. Murphy Junior High School took first place in the regional Middle School Science Bowl held at Brookhaven Lab. On …
Construction passes 50-percent milestone; magnet installation begins March 22, 2011 Written by Mona S. Rowe UPTON, NY — The U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory is now halfway toward completing construction of the National …
Probing the properties of a superhot, ‘perfect’ liquid, quark-gluon plasma March 21, 2011 EVENT: How do scientists study tiny specks of a liquid that last less than ten millionths of a billionth of a billionth of a second at a temperature more than 250, …
Combining theory and experiments to save time, money in the search for promising high-temperature superconductors March 21, 2011 EVENT: With more varieties than Baskin-Robbins ice cream, high-temperature superconductors — materials that conduct …
A call to action to understand the ‘quantum entanglement’ behind high-temperature superconductivity March 20, 2011 EVENT: Superconductors that carry current with no resistance at room temperature would revolutionize almost every conceivable electrical …
