Category: DOE Science News

Scientists successfully measure high-dimensional qudits, cousins to quantum computing qubits.

Hard to produce in quantities and purities appropriate for human use, scandium radioisotopes have potential for imaging cancer.

Nuclear “filters” will aid in searches for new-physics events occurring with odds of one in 100 quadrillion.

Scientists find the key to engineering plant signaling to allow colonization by beneficial fungi.

Researchers worked out how to efficiently prepare wave functions for the lithium-6 nuclear ground state and implemented those on quantum hardware.

An easy-to-use system can increase the availability of PET imaging agents to more patients.

Researchers used ultrafast electron diffraction to image the structure of the pericyclic minimum, the “transition state” of electrocyclic reactions.

If observed, neutrinoless double-β decay would have changed our view of the Universe.

Scientists find interactions between organic matter in river corridors and microbial communities, highlighting potentially important microbes and chemicals

X-ray imaging shows that selectively etching surface nickel from a nickel-platinum alloy leaves a chemically active platinum coating.

A new strategy makes the stable introduction of new traits simple for newly discovered bacteria.

Scientists discover unexploited biosynthetic pathways and redesign them to produce useful bioproducts in a wide range of microbes.

Three-dimensional superconducting electrons choose to cross over to a flatter alternate dimension.

A soil transplant experiment gives new insights into coastal forests’ resilience in the face of rising seas and increasing storms.

Experiments examine atomic disorder and dynamics that could explain beneficial optical properties.

A global warming-induced poleward shift of the westerly jet affects the climate and water cycle in the U.S. Midwest differently in the spring and summer.

Trapping electrons with atomic vibrations has the potential to tune behavior in a quantum material.

Scientists examine the vast scientific literature on the urban impact on weather and climate to synthesize current understanding and inform future work.

By reanalyzing the distribution of active protons in nuclei, researchers found a possible solution to a particle physics puzzle involving quarks.

Land use and land cover changes have diverse and contrasting effects on different types of rain.

New Detection Methods Find More Drizzle in Marine Stratocumulus Clouds

Nuclear physicists find evidence of superradiant states by looking at the alpha decay of excited states in mirror nuclei.

Nuclear physicists find evidence of superradiant states by looking at the alpha decay of excited states in mirror nuclei.

Study points to traits and genes in controlling the root microbiome of switchgrass, a biofuel feedstock and native North American prairie grass.

Scientists use supercomputer simulations to understand the complex interplay between large-scale ion and small-scale electron plasma motion in determining fusion performance

Scientists image the complete set of light-induced quantum states in 2-D crystals of tungsten disulfide and reveal the mechanisms coupling these states.

New measurements at RHIC provide evidence for quark ‘deconfinement’ and insight into the unimaginable temperature of the hottest matter on Earth.

The National Microbiome Data Collaborative’s community learning program trains early-career researchers.

Calculations predict the temperature at which bottomonium melts in the hot matter created in heavy ion collisions.

Breakthrough will accelerate efforts to tap the potential of this important perennial grass, a promising crop for sustainable bioenergy production.

Calculations predict the temperature at which bottomonium melts in the hot matter created in heavy ion collisions.

Research advances the chemistry and improves the purity of isotopes for targeted alpha therapy used in the treatment of cancers.

Data on protons emitted from wide range of gold-gold collision energies shows absence of a quark-gluon plasma (QGP) at the lowest energy.

Researchers have resolved a longstanding puzzle in theoretical calculations for heavy ion and electron-ion collision experiments.

Scientists can tune the strength of astatine-211 bonds with chemicals called ketones, laying the groundwork for a new class of radiopharmaceuticals.