Smashing atomic nuclei together at mind-bending speeds recreates the fiery conditions of the early universe and scientists ...

Scientists have demonstrated a new way to use high-energy particle smashups at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC)—a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science user facility for ...

The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science user facility for nuclear physics research at DOE’s Brookhaven National Laboratory, entered its 25th ;and ...

Earlier this year the Science Quickly team visited Brookhaven to get a look at its Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, or RHIC, which has been helping scientists study subatomic particles since 2000.

When two gold nuclei (ions) collide at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), they generate a "soup" known as a quark-gluon plasma (QGP). Credit: Valerie A. Lentz/Brookhaven National Laboratory.

AI algorithm intensifies gold ion collisions at near-light speed. At Brookhaven National Laboratory's (BNL's) Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), billions of gold ions race through magnets at ...

After 25 years of smashing gold nuclei together at light speeds, Brookhaven National Laboratory’s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider is hanging up its boots—erm, superconducting magnets.

The heavy antimatter nucleus was discovered by researchers at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider in Upton New York through analyzing the tracks left by 6 billion atomic collisions.

“If you go to our sun, you have 15-million- [degree] temperatures,” Schweda explained. “The hottest stars [are] 100 million.

At Brookhaven National Laboratory's (BNL's) Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), billions of gold ions race through magnets at nearly the speed of light. Thousands of times per second, they ...

Four Sundays each year, a sprawling Energy Department facility on Long Island opens its gates to the public and turns part of its 5,000 acres into a gleeful science fair.