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Berkeley Lab’s Materials Project, the most-cited resource for materials data and analysis tools in materials science, worked with NY-based MongoDB (a leading database for modern applications) to migrate the Materials Project to a cloud-based infrastructure. The move supports everything from rapid property searches to massive data downloads, and interactive tools enable real-time exploration of how different materials relate to each other. The innovative cloud infrastructure ensures a 99.98% uptime, the industry standard for high availability.

The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory reshaped nuclear physics. Scientists used particle detectors at RHIC to explore how matter forms by recreating and studying quark-gluon plasma, a trillion-degree soup of particles that last existed nearly 14 billion years ago. Experts at Berkeley Lab played a key role in building the STAR and sPHENIX detectors, designing experiments, and analyzing petabytes of data to make new discoveries. Berkeley Lab staff are part of the team developing RHIC’s successor, the Electron-Ion Collider (EIC). Brookhaven Lab employs 3,000 people and is one of New York state’s largest centers of scientific research.