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Newsday's coverage

• Energy forum Monday in Middle Island

  Affiliated Brookhaven Civic Organization will host an energy forum Monday at 7:30 p.m. at Longwood Library in Middle Island.Caithness Energy LLC will present information about its Yaphank power plant and other possible initiatives, said ABCO president Deborah   Read more »

• Microbiologist McHarrel Zachuel Thomas, 73

  in St. Louis in 1972.Over his lifetime, he worked as a researching, clinical and supervising microbiologist.He worked at Brookhaven National Laboratory from 1972 to 1985, with the New York Blood Center from 1987 to 1993 and with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration   Read more »

• Heavy rain, flood watch for Thursday

  June recorded saw 10.8 inches of rainfall at Long Island MacArthur Airport in Ronkonkoma in 2003. However, records kept by Brookhaven National Laboratory since 1949 list the record for June as 12.85 inches -- that in 1982. The lab said 12.28 inches of rain   Read more »

• Exhibit shows Bellport's century-old history as a summer destination

  three months out of the year, Bellport came alive.And to celebrate the pleasures of yesterday and today, the Bellport-Brookhaven Historical Society is showcasing an exhibit to kick of the summer called Bellport: Summer 1900.Housed in the Ralph Brown building   Read more »

• Town Focus: Day 1 in Bellport

  of the Greater Bellport Coalition.As the week goes on, I plan to meet with Anna Lou Fletcher, president of the Bellport-Brookhaven Historical Society, and its curator Steven Czarniecki. Theyll show me historic photos and postcards and help me get a taste of   Read more »

Around the web

• Brookhaven Lab Physicist/Stony Brook University Professor Awarded Prestigious Humboldt Research Award

  recognition of Dima's outstanding achievements as one of the foremost intellectual leaders in theoretical physics at Brookhaven and Stony Brook," said Berndt Mueller, Associate Laboratory Director for Nuclear and Particle Physics at BNL. "His ideas about the 12:53 PM from Brookhaven National Laboratory News Read more »

• Massive particle storage ring to begin 3,200-mile trek on Saturday

  able to collect here at Brookhaven. This experiment will now get a new life as part of Fermilab's Muon Campus, allowing Brookhaven and Fermilab scientists—along with 100-plus researchers from China, England, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Russia, 7:48 AM from Brookhaven National Laboratory News Read more »

• Massive Electromagnet To Be Moved From New York To Chicago

  The 3,200-mile move by land and sea is now rescheduled to begin on June 22. The large magnet was constructed at the DOE’s Brookhaven National Laboratory in NY in the 1990s, where it was used to study the properties of muons (subatomic particles that live only   from RedOrbit Read more »

• Exposure to Air Transforms Gold Alloys Into Catalytic Nanostructures

  Lab physicists Peter Sutter, Eli Sutter, and Xiao Tong (left to right) with one of the Center for Functional Nanomaterials instruments used to characterize the new nanoparticle structures. UPTON, NY—Gold bars may signify great wealth, but the precious metal   from Brookhaven National Laboratory News Read more »

• Flanders, Riverhead Firefighters Douse Five Brush Fires Last Thursday

  in dousing five separate brushfires after they broke out along a half-mile stretch of Nugent Drive, on the Southampton/Brookhaven town border, shortly after 5 p.m. last Thursday, May 30. The cause of the fires, which charred grass and brush along the fence   from 27east.com Read more »