Profiles
RIKEN operates five major research institutes in Japan and a host of other facilities and research centers covering disciplines as diverse as super computing and biology, astrophysics and nanomaterials. RIKEN also maintains a strong international presence, with many collaborative research centers established at some of the most advanced research facilities around the world. Each month, RIKEN RESEARCH profiles one of RIKEN’s many research centers and some of the scientists involved in leading research utilizing the world-class facilities offered by RIKEN.
Recent Profiles
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Exploring nuclear fusion and getting inside materials (20 February 2009)
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Pushing boundaries and helping to feed the world (11 July 2008)
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Probing nature at the nanoscale with the world’s most powerful synchrotron light source (11 April 2008)
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RBRC – Recreating the conditions of the early universe (09 November 2007)
An international group of scientists at RIKEN Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) Research Center (RBRC) on Long Island, near New York City, is trying to replicate conditions during the first few microseconds after the Big Bang. Using the unique capabilities of the laboratory’s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), many of which were developed at RBRC, researchers can manipulate and observe quarks and gluons, the constituents of protons, with unprecedented clarity.
