Upton and away: Humble start, brilliant future at BNL
By TOM MARINER // When the first U.S. Army recruits marched across the pine barrens of Upton, Long Island, in 1917, few could have imagined the global scientific breakthroughs that…
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider
At Brookhaven Lab, a breakthrough that’s long overdue
By GREGORY ZELLER // A theoretical physicist with unparalleled understanding of space, matter and energy will take the reins of Brookhaven National Laboratory. JoAnne Hewett, most recently associate lab director…
Albany, DOE bet on the future in BNL’s Discovery Park
By GREGORY ZELLER // New discovery abounds at Brookhaven National Laboratory, figuratively and literally. The Upton-based U.S. Department of Energy lab has officially broken ground on Phase One of its…
At BNL and SBU’s nuclear center, the force awakens
By GREGORY ZELLER // A new force is rising in the exploration of the physical universe. Brookhaven National Laboratory and Stony Brook University on Tuesday announced the launch of the…