External news and journal publications discussing FRIB science.

  • 23 September 2025
  • Space.com

An article published on Space.com uses imagery from FRIB, the Stanford Linear Accelerator (SLAC), and CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) to describe how particle accelerators work by accelerating subatomic particles to incredibly high speeds and smashing them into tiny targets, usually atomic nuclei, to achieve a desired effect.

https://www.space.com/science/particle-physics/how-do-particle-colliders-work
  • 21 August 2025
  • American Nuclear Society

American Nuclear Society's Nuclear Newswire reports on the completion of major construction for the Gamma-Ray Energy Tracking Array (GRETA), a new FRIB instrument for gamma ray spectroscopy that will be 10 to 100 times more sensitive than previous nuclear science experiments. 

https://www.ans.org/news/2025-08-21/article-7298/greta-sensitive-and-flexible-h…
  • 21 August 2025
  • Innovation News Network

An article from Innovation News Network celebrates a major milestone in the construction of the Gamma-Ray Energy Tracking Array (GRETA), a cutting-edge detector designed to probe the mysteries of atomic nuclei that will soon be housed at FRIB.

https://www.innovationnewsnetwork.com/new-us-gamma-ray-detector-to-unlock-atomi…
  • 21 August 2025
  • Interesting Engineering

Interesting Engineering examines how the research team behind Gamma-Ray Energy Tracking Array (GRETA) is using artificial intelligence (AI) to make the software that tracks gamma rays even more powerful.

https://interestingengineering.com/science/world-most-powerful-detector-nuclear…
  • 15 August 2025
  • Mirage News

Mirage News recognizes Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) physicist Cole Pruitt for winning FRIB's Achievement Award for Early Career Researchers, which acknowledges early-career scientists who have made significant contributions to nuclear physics research at or in connection with FRIB.

https://www.miragenews.com/llnl-physicist-cole-pruitt-wins-early-career-1515270/
  • 14 August 2025
  • Energy Reporters

Energy Reporters celebrates the completion of the Gamma-Ray Energy Tracking Array (GRETA), a new instrument constructed at Berkeley Lab and coming to FRIB in 2025. GRETA promises new insights into atomic nuclei and the forces that forge the universe's heaviest elements.

https://www.energy-reporters.com/news/greta-stuns-with-sphere-tracking-half-a-m…
  • 11 August 2025
  • Interesting Engineering

Researchers have completed the major construction of the Gamma-Ray Energy Tracking Array (GRETA), a next-generation nuclear detector designed to deliver the most precise measurements yet of atomic nuclei. Developed at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, GRETA will soon be shipped to FRIB for installation and commissioning.

https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/greta-nuclear-detector-set-for-in…
  • 9 July 2025
  • U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science

The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science (DOE-SC) posted a highlight titled “Predictive Theory Revises Understanding of Alpha Processes During the Big Bang and in Massive Stars” about new theoretical calculations that will enable more accurate determination of reaction rates for modelling primordial lithium-6 abundance and massive stars’ lifecycle. Authors of the publication are from the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams at Michigan State University. Each year, scientists publish thousands of research findings in the scientific literature. About 200 of these are selected annually by their respective program areas in DOE-SC as publication highlights of special note.

https://www.energy.gov/science/np/articles/predictive-theory-revises-understand…
  • 7 July 2025

The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science (DOE-SC) posted a blog post titled “Gaute Hagen: Then and Now / 2013 Early Career Award Winner” about Gaute Hagen's research investigating state-of-the-art computations of weak processes in nuclei, which was carried out at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams at Michigan State University. 

https://www.energy.gov/science/articles/gaute-hagen-then-and-now-2013-early-car…
  • 2 July 2025
  • Quanta Magazine

Quanta Magazine reports on the research performed at FRIB studying the intermediate neutron-capture process, or the i-process, one of the three main processes by which heavy elements are thought to form. Experiments investigating the i-process, led by FRIB's Artemis Spyrou, will help scientists learn more about how heavy atoms are forged inside stars.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/physicists-start-to-pin-down-how-stars-forge-hea…
  • 2 July 2025
  • MSU Department of Chemistry

Deepika Davuluri, a graduate student in the laboratory of Professor Katharina Domnanich, has received the College of Natural Science's Alfred J. and Ruth Zeits Endowed Fellowship for her research in radiochemistry at FRIB. This endowment supports work in nuclear and laser science research, and particularly students whose research interests are targeting cancer.

https://www.chemistry.msu.edu/news/2025-07-deepika-davuluri-zeits%20.aspx
  • 18 June 2025
  • MSU Today

MSU Today explores 26 areas of important research at MSU, outlined from A to Z. The alphabetical list features "R - Rare isotopes," showcasing FRIB's rare isotope research in pursuit of breakthroughs in medicine, national security, and a better understanding of the physical universe.

https://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2025/msu-research-a-to-z