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#NSLSII computational scientist Thomas Caswell has been awarded a five-year, $1.6 million grant from NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration to support the development and maintenance of Matplotlib and Cartopy. Matplotlib is a popular Python library used for creating static, interactive, and animated data visualizations such as plots and graphs. Cartopy is built on top of Matplotlib to produce maps and other geospatial data analyses.

Promethium may be easy to spot on the periodic table, but it is aptly classified as a “rare-earth metal.” How rare is this element? At any given time, only about one pound of promethium occurs naturally on Earth. As part of a groundbreaking study, Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientists brought 40 to 50% of the world's purified promethium to #NSLSII, where it was measured using X-ray absorption spectroscopy for the first time. Nearly 80 years after its initial discovery, these measurements exposed elusive properties of this element, advancing scientists’ understanding of the lanthanide series.

We have a remarkable group of speakers scheduled to present at our Decades of Discovery celebration, including: ?? Brookhaven Lab Director JoAnne Hewett ?? Nobel Laureate Samuel Ting ?? distinguished physicist Martin Breidenbach ?? former Brookhaven Lab Director Nicholas Samios ?? historian Robert Crease

Take a look at the world’s highest voltage polarized electron gun. It speeds up the velocity of electrons to 80% the speed of light! This key piece of technology puts the E in EIC. #ElectronIonCollider. Though it's nothing like the type of gun that signals the start of a race, this direct-current, laser-driven polarized electron gun will serve as a starting gun of sorts for one of the EIC’s streams of colliding particles. It will produce and fire off the electrons that make their way into and around the 2.4-mile-circumference circular collider.

Scientists used these predictions to validate a widely used approach for deciphering particle properties. #ElectronIonCollider #NuclearPhysics #TheoreticalPhysics

2024 is a very special year at Brookhaven Lab, where we're celebrating several milestone anniversaries. Back in October, we celebrated 10 years since #NSLSII's first light, when the first X-rays were delivered to our new synchrotron light source. Now, we're celebrating the anniversaries of two Nobel Prize-winning discoveries at the Lab: 60 years since the discovery of CP violation and 50 years since the discovery of the J/psi particle. In 1964, Princeton University's Val Fitch and James Cronin led a team that discovered a violation of charge conjugation (C) and parity (P) — called “CP violation” — in an experiment at Brookhaven's Alternating Gradient Synchrotron (AGS). This was a major flaw in physics' central belief that the universe is symmetrical. Fitch and Cronin were presented with The Nobel Prize in Physics in 1980. In 1974, the J/psi particle was discovered by teams at both Brookhaven Lab and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Samuel C.C. Ting and his team discovered what he called the "J" particle using the AGS at Brookhaven. Burton Richter and his team found the same particle, which he called the "psi," at SLAC. Ting and Richter shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1976. We're hosting a celebration to honor these two Nobel Prize-winning discoveries and explore the future of physics. The event, titled "Decades of Discovery at Brookhaven National Laboratory," will be held in-person at Brookhaven Lab (and virtually) on Friday, Nov. 22, from 1 to 6 p.m. EST. Learn more: https://bit.ly/4fl4ATR

Scientists at Argonne National Laboratory have developed a new design that dramatically improves the performance and reduces the costs of lithium-ion #batteries. #NSLSII

"A method to take snapshots of exploding nuclei could hold clues about the fundamental properties of gold, uranium and other elements," Nature Portfolio reports. #RHIC #NuclearPhysics

Every year, the Brookhaven Veterans Association hosts a #VeteransDay ceremony for our community to honor all who served. Today, we share that ceremony with you, and we extend our gratitude to veterans across the nation.

What is unique about ARM User Facility's Bankhead National Forest atmospheric observatory? ???? Brookhaven's Chongai Kuang answers. ?????