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NOvA neutrino detector records first 3-D particle tracks

Using the first completed section of the NOvA neutrino detector, scientists have begun collecting data from cosmic rays—particles produced by a constant rain of atomic nuclei falling on the Earth’s atmosphere from space .

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory achieves milestone, completing first part of heart of fusion experiment

Engineers and technicians at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have completed a crucial stage of the $94 million upgrade of the National Spherical Torus Experiment (NSTX), the Laboratory’s major fusion project.

Accelerating Particles Accelerates Science — With Big Benefits for Society

Tackling the most challenging problems in accelerator science attracts the world's best and brightest to Brookhaven Lab. It's only natural that ideas and techniques born here take root in new research facilities around the world — and spark a host of spin-off applications for industry, medicine, national security, and more.

Fake Shewanella reveals how bacteria breathe iron

Electrons conduct through bacterial proteins directly to minerals containing iron.

Microbes, Mercury, and Risk

Oak Ridge researchers unlock a genetic key to mercury contamination of the food chain.

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Berkeley Lab Researchers Use Metamaterials to Observe Giant Photonic Spin Hall Effect

Engineering a unique metamaterial of gold nanoantennas, Berkeley Lab researchers were able to obtain the strongest signal yet of the photonic spin Hall effect, an optical phenomenon of quantum mechanics that could play a prominent role in the future of computing.

Building the Massive Simulation Sets Essential to Planck Results

Using NERSC supercomputers, Berkeley Lab scientists generate thousands of simulations to analyze the flood of data from the Planck mission.

Breakthrough Research Shows Chemical Reaction in Real Time

Menlo Park, Calif. — The ultrafast, ultrabright X-ray pulses of the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) have enabled unprecedented views of a catalyst in action, an important step in the effort to develop cleaner and more efficient energy sources.

The Final Brackets Are Being Set . . . For a Competition Like No Other

Two more teams joined the tourney of National Science Bowl finalists. See the newest winners, and return for future updates here.

Spring‘ing’ Forward Into the Finals . . . Of A Competition Like No Other

Several more schools leaped over their competitors to become winners of this weekend’s National Science Bowl regional competitions. See the newest finalists, and return for future updates here:

Long Predicted Atomic Collapse State Observed in Graphene

Berkeley Lab researchers recreate elusive phenomenon with artificial nuclei.

Final Magnet Girders Installed at NSLS-II

With painstaking precision, Brookhaven engineers aligned and delivered the final magnet girders needed to focus the near-light-speed electron beam at NSLS-II. Aligning the magnets to within the width of a hair took years of planning, an incredibly skilled team, and surprisingly, a simple piece of wire.