Mike Jensen Receives DOE Distinguished Mentor Award for Workforce Development

[ad_1] Newswise — UPTON, N.Y. — Mike Jensen, a meteorologist and interim chair of the Environmental Science and Technologies Department at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, is a recipient of the DOE Distinguished Mentor Award for Workforce Development, a new award program that recognizes outstanding mentors from across DOE’s 17 national […]

Machine Learning Speeds Up Search for Better Catalysts

[ad_1] Newswise — UPTON, N.Y. — Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory developed a new machine learning framework that can accelerate the search for better catalysts  — the materials that speed up chemical reactions — and offer more reliable results. Finding high-performing catalysts, which are used to accelerate processes from […]

A Smashing Success: Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider Wraps up Final Collisions

[ad_1] Newswise — UPTON, N.Y. — Just after 9 a.m. on Friday, Feb. 6, 2026, final beams of oxygen ions — oxygen atoms stripped of their electrons — circulated through the twin 2.4-mile-circumference rings of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and crashed into one another at nearly the speed of light inside the collider’s two […]