One major goal on the path toward making useful superconducting devices has been engineering materials that act as superconductors at the nanoscale. Such nanoscale superconductors would be useful in devices such as superconductive transistors and eventually in ultrafast, power-saving electronics. In the October 9, 2008, issue of Nature, scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory report that they have successfully produced two-layer thin films where neither layer is superconducting on its own,

Alan Guth, the Victor F. Weisskopf Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will give a BSA Distinguished Lecture titled "Inflationary Cosmology: Is Our Universe Part of a Multiverse?" at Brookhaven Lab on Thursday, November 6, at 7 p.m. in Berkner Hall.

Brookhaven Science Associates, which manages Brookhaven National Laboratory for the U.S. Department of Energy, awarded five Suffolk County nonprofit organizations with BreakThru Mini-Grants at a ceremony held at Brookhaven Lab on October 1.

Fritz Henn, Associate Laboratory Director for Life Sciences at Brookhaven Lab, has been named a recipient of the Federal Cross of Merit, a high-level honor of the Federal Republic of Germany.

During October and November 2008, some 150 scientists from 40 institutions in eight nations — including scientists from Brookhaven Lab — will take part in an international field experiment designed to make observations of critical components of the climate system of the southeastern Pacific.

The world’s largest computing grid is ready to tackle mankind’s biggest data challenge from the earth’s most powerful accelerator.

Come play “Tennis for Two,” one of the world’s first video games, designed to entertain visitors at Brookhaven Lab 50 years ago.

Brookhaven Lab has issued its 2007 Site Environmental Report. Highlights include significant progress on the environmental cleanup of the site, recognition of pollution prevention initiatives, and reduced environmental effluents and emissions.

Flexible filamentous viruses make up a large fraction of known plant viruses and are responsible for more than half the viral damage to crop plants throughout the world. New details of their structures have been revealed by Brookhaven scientists and their collaborators using sophisticated imaging techniques. These findings may lead to new ways to protect crop plants from viruses and other forms of damage.

Samuel Krinsky, a physicist at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory, has won thee 2008 Free Electron Laser (FEL) Prize. Sponsored by the FEL Conference, which was held this year in Gyeungju, Korea, the prize consists of an award citation, a plaque, and approximately $3,000.

The Facilities & Operations (F&O) Directorate at Brookhaven Lab has been reorganized to improve services to its customers and to better focus on supporting the strategic direction of the Laboratory.

Masaki Suenaga, a retired metallurgist who remains an active researcher at Brookhaven Lab, has received the IEEE Council on Superconductivity Award for significant and sustained contributions to applied superconductivity.

An international collaboration of scientists today sent the first beam of protons zooming at nearly the speed of light around the world’s most powerful particle accelerator—the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)—located at the CERN laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland.

Contemporary folksinger, guitarist and songwriter James O’Malley will give a concert at Brookhaven Lab on Friday, October 3, at 7 p.m. at the Brookhaven Center. Sponsored by the BNL Music Club, the concert is open to the public.

If your experiment doesn’t go the way you expect, take a closer look — something even more interesting may have happened. That strategy has led scientists at Brookhaven to discover a fundamental shift in an enzyme’s function that could help expand the toolbox for engineering biofuels and other plant-based oil products.

Long Island residents concerned about the toll that mental health disorders are taking on their families and communities will have a unique opportunity to hear from world-class experts about the causes, symptoms and progression of such illnesses as depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety, schizophrenia and autism, and learn about current and potential treatments.

A rhythm and blues concert featuring musicians from the Riverhead area is scheduled at Brookhaven National Laboratory on Saturday, October 18, at 8 p.m. in Berkner Hall. Sponsored by the BNL Music Club, the revue will feature the band Blues House as well as surviving members of The Moroccos. The concert is open to the public.

Milagro, a Santana tribute band, will give a two-hour concert at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory on Saturday, September 27, starting at 7:30 p.m. The Laboratory’s Hispanic Heritage Club is sponsoring the concert, and proceeds from the concert will benefit the club’s scholarship fund. The concert is open to the public.

Two buildings on the 5,300-acre site of Brookhaven National Laboratory have each been awarded a LEED silver rating by the U.S. Green Building Council. LEED stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design. The two buildings — the 94,500 square-foot Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN) and the 65,000 square-foot Research Support Building (RSB) — are the newest on the Brookhaven Lab site.

Igor Lovchinsky, grand-Prize winner of the Eastman International Piano Competition and the National Chopin Competition of the Kosciuszko Foundation, will perform transcriptions of seven Gershwin songs composed by virtuoso performer Earl Wild at Brookhaven National Laboratory on October 1, at noon, in Berkner Hall.