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No one credits heavy drinking with making people smarter – the mind-numbing effects are well documented. Odds are that if you haven’t experienced this personally, you’ve witnessed it in the foolish antics of others. The clear correlation between rapidly diminishing intelligence and rising alcohol consumption is no secret. But the long-term effects may go deeper…
Brookhaven Lab and the Search for the Higgs
Posted by Karen McNulty Walsh on December 13, 2011 
This guest post was written by Brookhaven Lab physicist Kostas Nikolopoulos. Today’s public seminar at CERN, where the ATLAS and CMS collaborations presented the preliminary results of their searches for the Standard Model (SM) Higgs boson with the full dataset collected during 2011, is a landmark for high-energy physics! The Higgs boson is a still-hypothetical…
MAGIC Spirit Cruise for Climate Science
Posted by Karen McNulty Walsh on December 8, 2011 
This is not a story about the latest mega cruise ship, with five swimming pools, 10 restaurants, a rock-climbing wall, and a casino. The vessel we’re talking about, the Horizon Spirit, will be outfitted instead with radars, aerosol sampling devices, and other high-tech tools. But even without the fancy umbrella drinks, Ernie Lewis, an atmospheric…
Using X-rays to Peel Back the Layers of a Purported Rembrandt
Posted by Karen McNulty Walsh on December 2, 2011 
This guest post was written by Mona S. Rowe, science writer for Brookhaven National Laboratory’s National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS) and NSLS-II. The quest to authenticate an unknown Rembrandt painting, titled “Old Man with a Beard,” hit a dramatic high at the National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS) at Brookhaven National Laboratory. Using an advanced x-ray…
The Long Island Solar Farm at Brookhaven Lab is Generating Electricity
Posted by Karen McNulty Walsh on November 18, 2011 
This guest post was written by Pat Looney, chair of the Sustainable Energy Technology Department at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory. If the sun is shining over Long Island, NY, as you read this article, the Long Island Solar Farm (LISF) is generating enough clean solar energy to power as many…
How I Learned to Start Worrying and Hate the Tick Bomb
Posted by Karen McNulty Walsh on October 18, 2011 This guest post was written by Brookhaven Lab science writing intern Kenrick Vezina, who will be sharing Brookhaven science stories from inside and outside laboratories on site through mid December. I’m about to enter the well-worn, vegetation-free (read: tick-free) pathway that cuts through the forest near my dorm. I’m about two steps down the trail…
See-Through Reactor Opens Window into Real-Time Chemistry
Posted by Karen McNulty Walsh on October 11, 2011 Jason Graetz, left, and Jiajun Chen at NSLS beamline X14A with their transparent reactor for viewing chemistry in real time. Here’s a recipe for basic chemistry: Mix a bunch of stuff in a reaction vessel and see what happens. Only you don’t really see the action taking place — unless you have some way to…
New Anode Could Improve Lithium-Ion Battery Performance
Posted by Karen McNulty Walsh on October 3, 2011 The following guest post was written by Wei-Qiang Han, a materials scientist working at Brookhaven Lab’s Center for Functional Nanomaterials. Wei-Qiang Han With gasoline prices still hovering near $4 per gallon, scientists at Brookhaven Lab’s Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN) are helping to develop electric vehicles capable of driving hundreds of miles on a single…
First Impressions of an Amateur Naturalist
Posted by Karen McNulty Walsh on September 20, 2011 This guest post was written by Brookhaven Lab science writing intern Kenrick Vezina, who joined our team this month and will be sharing Brookhaven science stories from inside and outside laboratories on site through mid December. On Saturday, September 10, I rode into Brookhaven National Laboratory for the first time. Within two hours, I was…
Neutrinos Disappearing at Daya Bay?
Posted by Kendra Snyder on August 15, 2011 This guest post is by Brookhaven Lab physicist Steve Kettell, the Chief Scientist for the U.S. Daya Bay Neutrino Project in southern China. Kettell received his Ph.D. in 1990 from Yale University and is the leader of Brookhaven’s Electronic Detector Group. Steve Kettell Neutrinos are downright weird! Produced in prodigious numbers in the sun, supernovae,…
