Brookhaven National Lab has received some noisy guests this summer—a brood of cicadas that have been incubating for the last ...

While gluons are responsible for generating most of the visible mass in the universe, their role inside nuclei remains poorly ...

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

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

An international team of scientists has published a new report that moves towards a better understanding of the behaviour of some of the heaviest ...

An international team of scientists has published a new report that moves towards a better understanding of the behaviour of some of the heaviest ...

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.

In 2024, researchers from the STAR Collaboration at Brookhaven National Laboratory’s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) in New York reported briefly creating a then unprecedentedly heavy ...

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.

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 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 ...