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Brookhaven Intern Caroline Sears Analyzes Nuclear Fission Yields The Smith College undergraduate is investigating what happens when the nucleus of an atom is split--reaction dynamics that are relevant to designing and operating nuclear reactors Caroline Sears, a rising junior at Smith College in Massachusetts, is completing a remote internship at Brookhaven Lab's National Nuclear Data Center. A chart of fission fragment yields of U-235. The colors correspond to how often the particular fission product is produced. From the NuDat database on the NNDC website (the website version is interactive...

share: January 6, 2021 UPTON, NY—With all the remarkable changes and challenges that took place in 2020, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory had a banner year in science. Many Lab employees worked remotely to keep vital science programs running while minimizing the spread of SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic. And throughout this unprecedented year, dedicated Lab staff collaborated on new ways of working to transform scientific meetings, educational outreach programs, tours, and more to new virtual formats that reached larger audiences t...

Virtual drug-discovery internships provide opportunity for hands-on experience with real-world impact December 28, 2020 Students working remotely during virtual fall internships at Brookhaven Lab helped identify molecules that may work to inhibit key functions of the virus that causes COVID-19. This image shows a computational model of a small molecule (blue and red stick figure) bound to the active site of the virus's Papain Like protease (PLpro, the green "ribbon" background molecule). Two students working under the mentorship of Desigan Kumaran, a structural biologist at the U.S. Departmen...

share: Pavlos Kollias Receives AGU Atmospheric Sciences Ascent Award Brookhaven Lab/Stony Brook University atmospheric scientist recognized for advances in the field of cloud and precipitation physics through novel applications of millimeter-wavelength radars December 22, 2020 Pavlos Kollias UPTON, NY — Atmospheric scientist Pavlos Kollias, who holds a joint appointment at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) and Stony Brook University (SBU), is the recipient of a 2020 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Atmospheric Sciences Ascent Award. This award annual...

Partner in Nobel Prize-winning Discovery of Muon Neutrino at Brookhaven's Alternating Gradient Synchrotron DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory Jack Steinberger, who with Leon Lederman and Melvin Schwartz was awarded the 1988 Nobel Prize in physics for their 1962 discovery of the muon neutrino, died on Saturday, December 12, 2020, at his home in Geneva. He was 99. "Jack Steinberger was a remarkable man who played a key role in one of the most impactful discoveries in particle physics of the 20th century," said Doon Gibbs, Director of the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laborator...