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By Kandice Carter enlarge Joshua Crafts, a graduate student who is pursuing his Ph.D. at The Catholic University of America, holds a lead-tungstate crystal. (Jefferson Lab photo/Aileen Devlin) Editor's note: The following news release was issued by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Lab).

enlarge Brookhaven Lab Associate Laboratory Director for Discovery Technologies Gabriella Carini (left) and Brookhaven Lab scientist Justine Haupt (right) stand in Brookhaven's Quantum Lighthouse — a state-of-the-art rooftop facility equipped with lenses, mirrors, and other optical instruments. Researchers use this technology to transmit and receive particles of light carrying quantum information.

enlarge Brookhaven Lab scientist Justine Haupt looks in a mirror in the Quantum Lighthouse — one of three state-of-the-art facilities making up the free-space-optical link that adds a wireless component to the nation's longest quantum network. This mirror is the heart of the telescope technology Haupt developed to enable the transmission of light particles containing quantum information through open air. (David Rahner/Brookhaven National Laboratory) There’s a new lighthouse on Long Island.

enlarge The muon EDM measured in different Fermilab data-taking periods compared with the previous Brookhaven result. The combined Fermilab value is compatible with zero (no observation). Although the experiment uses positive muons, the result is conventionally reported for negative muons, which reverts the sign of the measured value.

enlarge Current and former scientists, engineers, technicians, and others gathered to celebrate the accelerator achievements of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at "RHICfest" July 9-10, 2026, in Brookhaven Lab's Science and User Support Center. The meeting recapped RHIC's earliest days and greatest technological triumphs. (Kevin Coughlin/Brookhaven National Laboratory) What does it take to build the world’s most complex and versatile particle collider?

enlarge An aerial view of the future Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) complex at Brookhaven National Laboratory. The EIC will reuse key infrastructure from the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, including its accelerator tunnel and other components. (Kevin Coughlin/Brookhaven National Laboratory) Editor's note: The following news release was originally issued by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).

enlarge This image shows how, upon impact in a collision (left), a proton's three valence quarks (u, u, d) will continue to fly down the beampipe while the baryon junction, the Y-shaped configuration of gluons, is more easily stopped (right). The baryon junction will pull three new quarks out of the vacuum to become a new baryon, thus retaining the baryon number, while the "freed" quarks will each pair up with a new partner to form mesons. (Valerie A.

enlarge Image Credit: Matthew Raspanti, Office of Communications, Princeton University Editor’s note: The following feature article, originally published by The Quantum Insider, describes research conducted through the Co-design Center for Quantum Advantage (C2QA). C2QA is a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) National Quantum Information Science Research Center supported by DOE’s Office of Science and led by DOE’s Brookhaven National Laboratory.

enlarge Luisella Lari (right), associate director for strategic partnerships for the Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) project, stands with Matthew Chalmers, organizer of the CERN colloquium series, following her presentation, "The Path to the Electron-Ion Collider," at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research.

Editor's note: The following news release is adapted from a version originally issued by IBM Research. For more information about Brookhaven Lab's contributions to this work or the Lab's GridSearch project, contact Stephanie Rucco (srucco@bnl.gov, 631-344-8671). The electric grid has never mattered more — or faced more pressure. As transportation, buildings, and industry electrify, ever more of modern life runs through the same network of wires.