Energy Secretary Moniz Dedicates the World’s Brightest Synchrotron Light Source NSLS-II at Brookhaven National Lab will Accelerate Unprecedented Advances in Energy, Environmental Science, and Medicine WASHINGTON – U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Ernest Moniz last week dedicated the world’s most advanced light source, the National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II) at Brookhaven National Laboratory… Keep reading →
Awards recognize innovative research with commercial potential U.S. Department of Energy researchers have won 31 of the 100 awards given out this year by R&D Magazine for the most outstanding technology developments with promising commercial potential. The R&D 100 awards, sometimes called the “Oscars of Innovation,” are given annually in recognition of exceptional new… Keep reading →
This article is part of the Energy.gov series highlighting the “Top Things You Didn’t Know About…” Be sure to check back for more entries soon. Founded on the former site of the U.S. Army’s Camp Upton in New York in 1947, the Energy Department’s Brookhaven National Laboratory was originally created out of a post-war desire to explore… Keep reading →
In 1961, chemists at Brookhaven National Laboratory studied how to detect small brain tumors by analyzing the decay of radioactive material injected into the patient’s bloodstream and absorbed by the tumor. To help them, BNL’s Instrumentation Division built different arrays of detectors, and this circular type proved best. In the 1970s, BNL helped reconstruct the… Keep reading →
London at night as viewed from the International Space Station
The fuel of the future is very different depending on where in the world you live. Keep reading →
