Category: DOE Science News

Scientists test nuclear theory models in mid-sized nuclei using high resolution Indium-115 decay data.

A newly proposed approach aids chemical studies of rare, toxic, radioactive, and precious isotopes by requiring 1,000 times less material.

Modeling nuclear matter in two dimensions greatly simplifies understanding interactions among “cold,” dense quarks—including in neutron stars.

Theorists find new electromagnetic effects that shift the spin-dependent coupling of the nucleon to the weak force and point out the implications for new physics in beta decay.

Snekmer allows scientists to use rapid prototyping to better understand the function of proteins in microbes.

New calculations provide insights into the dynamics of the chiral magnetic effect in heavy ion collisions.

National laboratory researchers partner with a private company to achieve 100-million-degree temperatures inside a high magnetic field spherical tokamak.

The SNO+ experiment has for the first time shown that neutrinos from a nuclear reactor over 240 km away can be detected with plain water.

Viruses may have unanticipated consequences for ecosystem responses to climate change

Spin orientation preference may point to a previously unknown influence of the strong nuclear force—and a way to measure its local fluctuations.

Researchers find that different conformers of a type of atmospheric molecular intermediates react differently with the pollutant dimethyl amine.

Machine learning techniques track turbulent blobs in millions of frames of video from tokamak experiments.

Theory and experiment combine to provide the most precise empirical extraction of the proton’s tensor charge, a fundamental property of the proton.

Temperature and Nutrient Availability Affect Microbial Food Webs in Unexpected Ways

By confining the transport of electrons and ions in a patterned thin film, scientists alter the material’s properties for next-generation electronics.

Physicists use a detector under an Italian mountain to search for rare nuclear processes to explain why our Universe has more matter than antimatter.

This new method individually separates heavy metals — an actinide chemist’s dream.

Researchers demonstrate a real-world large-scale application of deep neural network models for discovering novel protein-protein interactions.

Researchers perform a global analysis of lead-lead collisions, finding that agreement with the reaction rate requires a much smaller nucleus.

Researchers perform a global analysis of lead-lead collisions, finding that agreement with the reaction rate requires a much smaller nucleus.

Researchers have published the results from the first experiment at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, measurement of 5 new half-lives, in Physical Review Letters.

Researchers identify previously uncharacterized aerosols over an agricultural region in Oklahoma.

Study reveals that initial state conditions set up particle flow patterns, helping zero in on key properties of matter that mimics the early universe.

Scientists find a new approach to access unusual excited nuclear levels.

Whole-ecosystem warming at SPRUCE exponentially increased available nutrients for plants, but observed responses were not captured by the ELM-SPRUCE model.

Researchers use particle-resolved model simulations to quantify errors in simulations’ simplified optical properties.

Researchers combined crystallographic data and computational studies to investigate plutonium-ligand bonding within a hybrid material construct.

Suppression of a telltale sign of quark-gluon interactions indicates gluon recombination in dense walls of gluons.

Quantum interference between dissimilar particles offers new approach for mapping gluons in nuclei, and potentially harnessing entanglement.

The MINERvA experiment in the NuMI beam at Fermilab has made the first accurate image of the proton using neutrinos instead of light as the probe.

Physicists show that black holes and dense state of gluons—the “glue” particles that hold nuclear matter together—share common features.

Plasma simulations, theory, and comparison with experiment show that resistive wall tearing mode can cause energy loss in tokamaks.

Experiment shows that even large, old, and presumably stable stores of soil carbon are vulnerable to warming and could amplify climate change.

Understanding how methanogenic bacteria can “bio-mine” minerals advances biotechnology and helps scientists understand the Earth’s geological history.

Theorists’ hydrodynamic flow calculations accurately describe data from collisions of photons with lead nuclei at the ATLAS experiment.

The mixed metal waste common to industrial dumping sites causes metabolic stress in bacterial iron metabolism that cannot be explained by additive single metal exposure.

Interfaces made by stacking certain complex oxide materials can tune the quantum interactions between electrons, yielding exotic spin textures.

Powerful statistical tools, simulations, and supercomputers explore a billion different nuclear forces and predict properties of the very-heavy lead-208 nucleus.

Patterned arrays of nanomagnets produce X-ray beams with a switchable rotating wavefront twist.

In conflict with a long-held explanation of cadmium isotope motion, a new experiment found that cadmium-106 may rotate instead of vibrate.

Researchers detect an exotic electron phase called Wigner crystal in tungsten diselenide/tungsten disulfide moiré superlattices.

As machine learning tools gain momentum, a review of machine learning projects reveals these tools are already in use throughout nuclear physics.

Nuclear physicists test whether next generation artificial intelligence and machine learning tools can process experimental data in real time.

New results could significantly improve resonance ionization mass spectrometry ultra-trace analysis of plutonium isotopes.

Particles choose partners for short-range correlations differently when farther apart in light nuclei versus when packed closer together in heavy nuclei.