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Released: 13-Mar-2024 10:05 AM EDT
Cracking the Quantum Code: Simulations Track Entangled Quarks
Brookhaven National Laboratory

Theorists and computational scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and Stony Brook University (SBU) ran a series of quantum simulations to explore one of the quirkiest features of the quantum realm: entanglement. The study takes quantum back to its roots in seeking to explain the behavior of subatomic particles.

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Released: 7-Mar-2024 9:05 AM EST
When Plants Flower: Scientists ID Genes, Mechanism in Sorghum
Brookhaven National Laboratory

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and Oklahoma State University have identified key genes and the mechanism by which they control flowering in sorghum, an important bioenergy crop.

Released: 23-Feb-2024 10:05 AM EST
Super Strong Magnetic Fields Leave Imprint on Nuclear Matter
Brookhaven National Laboratory

A new analysis by the STAR collaboration at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), a particle collider at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, provides the first direct evidence of the imprint left by what may be the universe’s most powerful magnetic fields on “deconfined” nuclear matter. The evidence comes from measuring the way differently charged particles separate when emerging from collisions of atomic nuclei at this DOE Office of Science user facility.

7-Feb-2024 2:05 PM EST
Protecting the Protector Boosts Plant Oil Content
Brookhaven National Laboratory

Biologists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have demonstrated a new way to boost the oil content of plant leaves and seeds.

Released: 5-Feb-2024 1:05 PM EST
Magnesium Protects Tantalum, a Promising Material for Making Qubits
Brookhaven National Laboratory

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have discovered that adding a layer of magnesium improves the properties of tantalum, a superconducting material that shows great promise for building qubits, the basis of quantum computers.

Released: 5-Feb-2024 10:05 AM EST
Direct View of Tantalum Oxidation that Impedes Qubit Coherence
Brookhaven National Laboratory

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and DOE's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have used a combination of scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) and computational modeling to get a closer look and deeper understanding of tantalum oxide.

Newswise: France's National Center for Scientific Research and U.S. Department of Energy Sign 'Statement of Interest' on EIC Collaboration
Released: 1-Feb-2024 9:30 AM EST
France's National Center for Scientific Research and U.S. Department of Energy Sign 'Statement of Interest' on EIC Collaboration
Brookhaven National Laboratory

Representatives of France's National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) have signed a new "Statement of Interest" in future cooperation on the Electron-Ion Collider (EIC), a unique facility for exploring the building blocks of matter and the strongest force in nature.

Newswise: Martinez-Rincon Elected Vice Chair of QED-C Committee
Released: 29-Jan-2024 11:05 AM EST
Martinez-Rincon Elected Vice Chair of QED-C Committee
Brookhaven National Laboratory

Julian Martinez-Rincon, a quantum scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, has been elected vice chair of the Standards & Performance Metrics Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) of the Quantum Economic Development Consortium (QED-C).

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Released: 25-Jan-2024 9:00 AM EST
Brookhaven Lab Scientists Complete 2023 Oppenheimer Leadership Program
Brookhaven National Laboratory

Wah-Keat Lee, Lijuan Ruan, and Alistair Rogers—all researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory—explored the complexities, challenges, and opportunities facing the national lab system and DOE as 2023 Oppenheimer Science and Energy Leadership Program (OSELP) fellows.

Newswise: Hacking DNA to Make Next-Gen Materials
Released: 24-Jan-2024 8:05 AM EST
Hacking DNA to Make Next-Gen Materials
Brookhaven National Laboratory

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, Columbia University, and Stony Brook University have developed a universal method for producing a wide variety of designed metallic and semiconductor 3D nanostructures—the potential base materials for next-generation semiconductor devices, neuromorphic computing, and advanced energy applications.

Newswise: Scientists Make COVID Receptor Protein in Mouse Cells
22-Jan-2024 5:00 AM EST
Scientists Make COVID Receptor Protein in Mouse Cells
Brookhaven National Laboratory

A team of scientists has demonstrated a way to produce large quantities of the receptor that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, binds to on the surface of human cells.

9-Jan-2024 9:05 AM EST
Catalytic Combo Converts CO2 to Solid Carbon Nanofibers
Brookhaven National Laboratory

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and Columbia University have developed a way to convert carbon dioxide (CO2), a potent greenhouse gas, into carbon nanofibers, materials with a wide range of unique properties and many potential long-term uses.

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Released: 9-Jan-2024 8:05 AM EST
Brookhaven Lab Sets Sights on Particle Physics Goals
Brookhaven National Laboratory

As the particle physics community releases its strategic plan for the next 10 years and overall vision for the next 20, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have started planning how the Lab is positioned to contribute to a range of the plan’s science goals, new experiments, proposed research facilities, and ongoing projects.

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Released: 29-Dec-2023 3:05 PM EST
'The Human Element'
Brookhaven National Laboratory

Andrew Broadbent, an accomplished project manager at the at the National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II), a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facility located at DOE’s Brookhaven National Laboratory, took on such a challenge earlier this year though DOE’s Project Leadership Institute (PLI) and emerged from the yearlong endeavor with his team victorious.

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Released: 29-Dec-2023 3:05 PM EST
C2QA, a Year in Review
Brookhaven National Laboratory

The Co-design Center for Quantum Advantage has been growing, building, and working hard every year to support their mission—building the tools necessary to create scalable, distributed, and fault-tolerant quantum computer systems. Here are some of this year's highlights.

Newswise: MSI Connect: Promoting Opportunities, Innovation, and a Diverse Workforce
Released: 18-Dec-2023 9:00 AM EST
MSI Connect: Promoting Opportunities, Innovation, and a Diverse Workforce
Brookhaven National Laboratory

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory is teaming up with partner laboratories, minority serving institutions (MSIs), and a key industry partner, FedTech, to launch a pilot fellowship program that will connect top entrepreneurial talent within the MSI community with opportunities to commercialize DOE technologies.

Released: 8-Dec-2023 3:05 PM EST
Advisory Panel Issues Field-Defining Recommendations for U.S. Government Investments in Particle Physics Research
Brookhaven National Laboratory

The High Energy Physics Advisory Panel (HEPAP) to the High Energy Physics program of the Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation’s Division of Physics has released a new Particle Physics Project Prioritization Panel (P5) report, which outlines particle physicists’ recommendations for research priorities in the field.

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Released: 6-Dec-2023 9:30 AM EST
A Partnership Forged in Diamond
Brookhaven National Laboratory

Tina Brower-Thomas of Howard University and Kenneth Evans-Lutterodt of Brookhaven Lab’s National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, were recently awarded a $1.5 million grant through the Department of Defense’s University Instrumentation Program (DURIP), sponsored by the Office of Naval Research.

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Released: 1-Dec-2023 9:05 AM EST
Brainstorming with a Bot
Brookhaven National Laboratory

Kevin Yager—leader of the electronic nanomaterials group at the Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN), a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facility at DOE’s Brookhaven National Laboratory—has imagined how recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) could aid scientific brainstorming and ideation.

Newswise: X-rays Reveal Unexpected Protein Function in Plants
Released: 30-Nov-2023 4:25 PM EST
X-rays Reveal Unexpected Protein Function in Plants
Brookhaven National Laboratory

A team of scientists from Cornell University and the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have revealed an unexpected function of a transport protein and its role in plant regulatory mechanisms. Their research, published in The Plant Cell earlier this year, could help reduce human mineral deficiencies by packing essential micronutrients into edible parts of plants.



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