Next up in our top 10 discoveries countdown to 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣5️⃣ is ... 🧪 Low-temperature, direct conversion of natural gas to liquid fuel ⛽ In 2024, our chemists engineered a highly selective catalyst that can convert methane, a major component of natural gas, into methanol, an easily transportable liquid fuel, in a single, one-step reaction. This direct process runs at a temperature lower than required to make tea and exclusively produces methanol without additional byproducts. That’s a big advance over more complex traditional conversions that typically require three separate reactions, each under different conditions, including vastly higher temperatures. #YearInReview #CFNatBrookhaven #NSLSII
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Brookhaven National Laboratory delivers discovery science and transformative technology to power and secure the nation’s future. Primarily supported by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science, Brookhaven is a multidisciplinary laboratory with seven Nobel Prize-winning discoveries, 36 R&D 100 Awards, and more than 70 years of pioneering research. Our 2,500-plus staff members lead and support diverse research teams that address the DOE mission to ensure the nation's security and prosperity by addressing its energy, environmental, and nuclear challenges through transformative science and technology solutions. Brookhaven’s highest-level priorities are nuclear science, energy science, data science, particle physics, accelerator science & technology, quantitative plant science, and quantum information science.
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We're counting down the days to 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣5️⃣ by highlighting our top 10 discoveries of the year. Today we celebrate... ✨ The heaviest antimatter nucleus ✨ Antimatter sounds exotic, but it really does exist — just not for long. In 2024, scientists studying collisions of atomic nuclei at #RHIC discovered the heaviest antimatter nucleus ever detected. It lasts only a fraction of a second before decaying into other particles. Physicists needed to search through billions of collisions to find just 16 of these rare "antihyperhydrogen-4" particles. The ability to create antimatter particles gives scientists new ways to explore why the universe is made only of matter. #YearInReview
New Heaviest Exotic Antimatter Nucleus
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As 2024 comes to a close, we're celebrating a year of scientific successes at Brookhaven, from creating the biggest bits of antimatter to improving qubits, catalysts, batteries, and more. Today, we're proud to present our ✨ top 10 discoveries of 2024! ✨ #YearInReview
Brookhaven's Top 10 Discoveries of 2024
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Thank you Brookhaven National Laboratory for hosting the annual United Way of Long Island Holiday Auction! With countless gift baskets and the incredible support from Lab employees, the event raised over $20,000 to help Long Islanders. Your generosity makes a lasting impact this holiday season! 🎁❤️ #UnitedWayLI #HolidayGiving
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Constriction junction, do you function? YES! A Co-design Center for Quantum Advantage (C2QA) study showed that #qubits with constriction junctions perform comparably to qubits currently dominating the field. Importantly, this different qubit architecture is more amenable to mass production. #CFNatBrookhaven
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Congratulations to #NSLSII physicist Xiaoqian Chen for receiving an Early Career Research Award from the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science earlier this year! 👏 The Early Career Research Program bolsters the nation’s scientific workforce by supporting exceptional researchers at the outset of their careers, when many scientists do their most formative work. This year, Chen was selected as one of 91 early career scientists from across the country to receive five years of research funding. Chen will use this funding to provide a new window into the nanoscale behavior of quantum materials. She studies quantum correlations in condensed matter at NSLS-II’s Coherent Hard X-ray Scattering (CHX) beamline. This research explores the way particles interact in a quantum system that can’t be explained by classical physics. In classical physics, particles behave independently. In a quantum many-body system, particles can become “entangled,” meaning the behavior of one particle could be linked to the behavior of other particles. Understanding quantum correlations in many-body systems could have implications in quantum computing, quantum simulations, materials science, and metrology. #EarlyCareerAward #QuantumMaterials
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This discovery challenges the traditional understanding of shadows, and it opens new possibilities for technologies that could use a laser beam to control another laser beam.
Scientists Discover Laser Light Can Cast a Shadow
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#CFNatBrookhaven's Electron Microscopy Facility is home to five top-of-the line transmission electron microscopes, two of which are highly specialized instruments capable of extreme levels of resolution. Here, scientists develop research methods to observe ultrasmall solid, liquid, and gaseous samples in real time as they are exposed to heat, electrical current, light, and more.
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Some friendly competition led up to the first discovery of entanglement at the Large Hadron Collider. #Quantum
The quantum chase
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The High-energy Ion Telescope will help decode messages in particles from the sun and beyond our cosmic shield. #IMAPMission ☀️🌌
New Instrument to Measure High-energy Solar Particles as Part of NASA Mission
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