This Podcast Was Recorded Inside a Particle Collider

Science Quickly

Scientific American

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🗓️ 9 May 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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We’re taking a field trip to the U.S.’s only particle collider, the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), housed at Brookhaven National Laboratory. Staff scientist Alex Jentsch takes listeners through some basic terminology and interconnected technologies that help Brookhaven researchers probe questions about our unseen universe. The RHIC is winding down in preparation for the new Electron-Ion Collider, which could help us discover the secrets of the “glue” that holds visible matter together. Be sure to head over to our YouTube account to see the video version of this podcast, shot on-site at Brookhaven National Laboratory! Recommended reading: Who Will Build the Next Giant Particle Collider? https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/who-will-build-the-next-giant-particle-collider/ Supersymmetry Washes Out at the Large Hadron Collider https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/supersymmetrys-long-fall-from-grace/ Physicists Are Closer Than Ever to Solving the Puzzle of the Ghostly Neutrino’s Mass https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/neutrino-mass-mystery-shrinks-with-latest-katrin-results/ Tell us what you think! Take our survey for the chance to win some SciAm swag! http://sciencequickly.com/survey E-mail us at [email protected] if you have any questions, comments or ideas for stories we should cover! Discover something new every day: subscribe to Scientific American and sign up for Today in Science, our daily newsletter. Science Quickly is produced by Rachel Feltman, Fonda Mwangi, Kelso Harper, Naeem Amarsy and Jeff DelViscio. This episode was hosted by Rachel Feltman. Our show is edited by Alex Sugiura with fact-checking by Shayna Posses and Aaron Shattuck. The theme music was composed by Dominic Smith. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:23.3	Today we're taking you on another one of our Friday fascination field trips with an auditory journey to Brookhaven National Laboratory.
1:30.8	This Long Island facility boasts seven Nobel Prize winning discoveries and more than 70 years of groundbreaking research into energy and the environment.
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1:44.6	heavy ion collider, or Rick, which has been helping scientists study subatomic particles
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