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Meet David Livoti: Radiofrequency Technician in Collider-Accelerator Department

Former Brookhaven National Laboratory intern David Livoti is now a full-time employee in the radiofrequency (RF) group of the C-AD complex, where he's part of a team of technicians that maintains RF systems for the Lab's particle accelerators.

Cannibalistic Materials Feed on Themselves to Grow New Nanostructures

Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory induced a two-dimensional material to cannibalize itself for atomic “building blocks” from which stable structures formed.

Scientists Predict Superelastic Properties in a Group of Iron-based Superconductors

A collaboration between scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory and the Institute for Theoretical Physics at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main has computationally predicted a number of unique properties in a group of iron-based superconductors, including room-temperature super-elasticity.

Brookhaven Lab Physicists Deliver Key Components for ProtoDUNE Detector

State-of-the art "cold" electronics and other components designed by and/or built at Brookhaven will be tested in prototype detector at CERN in preparation for Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE).

Putting 'Public' Back Into Publication

Six years in the making, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Knowledgebase (KBase) program offers the most updated system for recording experimental methods, collaborating with colleagues and performing every step of biological analysis through one free, open source.

SmartTruck Steps Up Simulations for Certification by Computation

SmartTruck, a small business in Greenville, SC, recently completed its first detailed unsteady analysis using modeling and simulation at the OLCF and became the first company to request certification from the EPA through CFD.

All Aboard the Neutron Train: Mapping Residual Stresses for More Robust Rails

Researchers from Transportation Technology Center Inc. (TTCI) are analyzing new and used rail segments with neutrons at the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).

New Accelerator Research Program at Fermilab Sees First Beam

The milestone marks the beginning of a research program that positions the particle storage ring, called the Integrable Optics Test Accelerator, as a standout among the world’s accelerators — an innovative test bed dedicated to the science of particle acceleration.

When Your X-Ray Subject Has Wings: Peering Inside Insects with the Advanced Photon Source

One of the world’s most powerful X-rays is making it possible for scientists to see inside insects in real-time.

Q&A: Shining X-ray Light on Perovskites for Better Solar Cells

Four scientists discuss X-ray experiments at SLAC’s synchrotron that reveal new insights into how a promising solar cell material forms.

Artificial Intelligence Project to Help Bring the Power of the Sun to Earth is Picked for First U.S. Exascale System

To capture and control the process of fusion that powers the sun and stars in facilities on Earth called tokamaks, scientists must confront disruptions that can halt the reactions and damage the doughnut-shaped devices. Now an artificial intelligence system under development at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) and Princeton University to predict and tame such disruptions has been selected as an Aurora Early Science project by the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility, a DOE Office of Science User Facility.

LHC Scientists Detect Most Favored Higgs Decay

Today at CERN, the Large Hadron Collider collaborations ATLAS and CMS jointly announced the discovery of the Higgs boson transforming into bottom quarks as it decays.