Topic: Brookhaven National Laboratory

SynchroPET, a Long Island startup company, has entered into an option agreement to commercialize a new small-scale, portable brain-imaging device...

Hedge fund paying $9M; won't be prosecuted

A hedge fund named in a massive insider-trading case will pay $9 million in settlements but won't be prosecuted by the Justice Department because ...
Renowned NASA Space Flight Risk Expert Dr. Feng Hsu Now Assessing Private Space Flight Risks. . One of the nation's leading experts in space flight...

Young people crave self-esteem above sex: study

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Young people crave boosts to their self-esteem more than sex and money, according to a new study.Researchers from Ohio State University and Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York found that college students rated receiving compliments, or doing ...

Solar Windows

Windows let in light and with the light solar heat. A new type of transparent solar film developed by the U.S. Department of Energy could turn windows into clean electricity generators. Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE ...
In a new breakthrough, scientists from the Brookhaven National Laboratory and Dow AgroSciences have engineered a relative of cabbage to create the raw material for producing plastics.. Plant biologists wanted to make plants that produce unusually high levels of omega-7 fatty acids ...
Battery-powered cars may be on the cusp of the mainstream auto market, but scientists and car makers still have high hopes for hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, which should refuel faster and travel longer distances between fill-ups. They are easily poisoned by carbon ...

Heavy atoms set to collide at the LHC

The collision energies should far outstrip those achieved by the current record holder, the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York.. It will be interesting to see whether this behaviour holds at the LHC's higher temperatures ...

Row over NASA primate-radiation experiment

Documents made publicly available on October 14 have reignited a debate surrounding a proposed radiation experiment involving squirrel monkeys (Saimiri sciureus) at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) in Upton, N.Y.. The heavily redacted papers, obtained by the animal-rights organization People for the ...

Einstein's Idiots # 8

The planetary model of the hydrogen atom of contemporary Quantum Mechanics is an unimaginable mathematical concoction that is divorced from Physics and from the real world. It wouldn?t be until the second half of the 19Two decades later, Rutherford and Bohr ...