Department of Energy Announces $16 Million for Particle Accelerators for Science & Society

Newswise — WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $16 million in funding for advanced research projects in particle accelerator science and technology. Particle accelerators provide unique sources of…

Autonomous Discovery Defines the Next Era of Science

Newswise — Argonne National Laboratory is tackling the world’s most challenging problems faster than ever before by using robotics, artificial intelligence and machine learning to automate science. Contrary to what…

Muon g-2 experiment announces updated result that’s twice as precise

Newswise — The Muon g-2 collaboration announced their much-anticipated updated measurement today. The new result aligns with the collaboration’s first result, announced in 2021 — and it’s twice as precise.…

Muon g-2 doubles down with latest measurement, explores uncharted territory in search of new physics

Newswise — Batavia, Illinois, Aug. 10, 2023 – Physicists now have a brand-new measurement of a property of the muon called the anomalous magnetic moment that improves the precision of their…

Physicists confirm 67-year-old prediction of massless, neutral composite particle

BYLINE: Michael O’Boyle Newswise — In 1956, theoretical physicist David Pines predicted that electrons in a solid can do something strange. While they normally have a mass and an electric…

4 Los Alamos scientists win DOE Early Career Research Awards

Newswise — LOS ALAMOS, N.M., Aug. 7, 2023 — In a banner year for Los Alamos National Laboratory in the competition for Department of Energy Early Career Research Awards, four…

Four Brookhaven Scientists Receive Early Career Research Awards

Newswise — UPTON, NY—Four scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have been selected by DOE’s Office of Science to receive significant funding through its Early Career Research…

Researchers show how to increase X-ray laser brightness and power using a crystal cavity and diamond mirrors

Newswise — At particle accelerator facilities around the world, scientists rely on powerful X-rays to reveal the structure and behavior of atoms and molecules. Now, researchers from the Department of…

Calculations Reveal High-Resolution View of Quarks Inside Protons

Newswise — UPTON, NY—A collaboration of nuclear theorists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, Argonne National Laboratory, Temple University, Adam Mickiewicz University of Poland, and the…

Designing Detectors for DUNE

Newswise — The most abundant, massive particles in the universe may be ones you’ve never even heard of: neutrinos. These particles are all around us—even streaming through us—though they almost…