With a heavy nucleus (79 protons) and a lone electron in its outermost electron shell, gold should have fairly similar ...

Brookhaven National Laboratory's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider kicked off its final year of operations this week, marking a ...

Although the present results may provide a resolution to the debate over which mechanism is the dominant cause of relativistic electron acceleration, there are still many questions to answer.

The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science user facility for nuclear physics research at DOE’s Brookhaven National Laboratory, entered its 25th and final ...

The team has used RHIC to smash the nuclei of gold atoms at near-light speed since 2000, collecting data to recreate and study quark-gluon plasma (QGP or quark soup). This hot, de ...

Graphene could one day be involved in a new definition of the kilogram. To the left of gold in the periodic table are two elements — platinum and iridium — that are just as interesting in many ...