Opening a New Frontier in Nuclear Physics: Electron-Ion Collider Project Launched
State-of-the-art facility and partnership among DOE, NYS, Brookhaven Lab, and Jefferson Lab will open a new frontier in nuclear physics, a field essential to our…
State-of-the-art facility and partnership among DOE, NYS, Brookhaven Lab, and Jefferson Lab will open a new frontier in nuclear physics, a field essential to our…
Theorists publish improved prediction for the tiny difference in kaon decays observed by experiments. An international collaboration of theoretical physicists—including scientists from the U.S. Department…
Magnetic topological insulators could be just right for making qubits, but this one doesn’t obey the rules. The search is on to discover new states…
This movie of a 10-nanosecond molecular dynamics simulation shows how the shape of a SARS-CoV-2 virus protein (magenta) changes as it interacts with a possible…
Scientists on an experiment at the Large Hadron Collider see massive W particles emerging from collisions with electromagnetic fields. How can this happen? The Large…
In a press conference at the University of Chicago, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) unveiled a report that lays out a blueprint strategy for the…
Nuclear physicists are trying to understand how particles called quarks and gluons combine to form hadrons, composite particles made of two or three quarks. To…
Ion-based technology may enable energy-efficient simulations of the brain’s learning process, for neural network AI systems. Teams around the world are building ever more sophisticated…
To better understand and mitigate the health risks faced by astronauts from exposure to space radiation, we ideally need to be able to test the…
A collaboration of scientists from the National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II)—a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science user facility at DOE’s Brookhaven…
University of New South Wales (UNSW) material scientists have shed new light on a promising new way to store and process information in computers and…
Scientists at UC San Diego and Brookhaven Laboratory in New York went searching for superconducting materials where researchers have had little luck before. Setting their…
The beauty in science shines through at RHIC’s STAR detector and makes a cosmic connection. These images capture the movement and collisions of “cosmic rays”—mysterious…
RHIC measurements of ‘hypertriton’ and ‘antihypertriton’ binding energy and mass explore strange-matter interactions and test for ‘CPT’ violation. New results from precision particle detectors at…
Scientists have collected evidence suggesting that a purely electronic mechanism causes copper-oxygen compounds to conduct electricity without resistance at temperatures well above absolute zero. When…
Understanding the behavior of materials at their interfaces — where they connect to and interact with other materials — is central to engineering a variety…
Discovery yields a new quantitative description of unusual behavior relevant to materials used in electronics, medicine, telecommunications, and more. Scientists at the U.S. Department of…
The life-altering technological breakthroughs of the next several decades, the ones that will revolutionize technology, may be made possible by new materials so tiny that…