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Lying in Wait: MOF Are Traps for Toxic Gases Researchers used neutrons to study porous metal materials called MOFs that trap toxic gases that are harmful to the environment and human health.
Tiny Cavitation Bubbles Enhance Energy Conversion in Fuel Injectors’ Jets Ultrafast X-ray imaging created with new technology offers insights into improving the energy efficiency of combustion engines.
New Mechanism Explains Rapid Energy Sharing Across Atomic Semiconductor Junctions Electron transfer between atomically thin materials triggers the ultrafast release of heat.
Ice-Cold Plasma Electron Beams Prepare to Power Future Hard X-ray Laser Beams Scientists chart a path to sub-femtosecond hard X-ray Free-Electron-Laser pulses powered by compact plasma-based accelerators.

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This image shows a snapshot of the order parameter in a fluctuating quark gluon liquid. Green regions are in the quark gluon phase, blue regions in the hadron phase.

Simulating a Critical Point in Quark Gluon Fluid

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A simulation of a rapidly accreting white dwarf showing a proposed site for the intermediate (i) process and the Summing NaI (SuN) detector. The research studied the 139Ba+n reaction, constrained by the beta decay of 140Cs into 140Ba.

Nuclear Physics Experiment Helps Identify Conditions for a New Astrophysical Process

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Team members pose in the clean room (left). Thermal image of the 10.4 kW uranium-238 beam on the target (top right). Three never-before-seen isotopes, shown to the right of the red line on the particle identification plot (bottom right).

Scientists Accelerate Uranium Beam with Record Power

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The Compton polarimeter’s laser system, used to measure electrons’ parallel spin, is aligned during the Calcium Radius Experiment in Hall A of the Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility.

Laser-Sharp Look at Spinning Electrons Sets the Stage for New Physics Discoveries

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Two examples of silicon photoelectrodes. Left: Micropillar silicon with cobalt catalysts reduces carbon dioxide (CO2) to methanol (CH3OH). Right: Porous silicon with rhenium catalysts reduces carbon dioxide (CO2) to carbon monoxide (CO).

For Solar Fuels, More Surface Area on Photoelectrodes Makes a Difference

High-surface area silicon improves light-driven reactions of carbon dioxide.

Scanning tunneling microscope map of a device made of three atomic layers of graphene. The contrast reveals the wavefunction of a chiral interface state (bright stripe) between two insulating regions having opposite chirality (dark color sides).

Chiral Asymmetry Creates a Path to High-Efficiency Future Electronics

Scientists learn how to manipulate quantum properties in graphene to create resistance-free, electricity channels for loss-free future electronics.

This image shows (a) the Nature magazine cover; (b) the single atom X-ray mechanism; (c) a supramolecular ring with one iron atom; (d) X-ray spectra of one iron atom; (e) a terbium dimer complex; (f) the X-ray spectra of one terbium atom.

For the First Time, Scientists X-Ray a Single Atom

Synchrotron X-ray spectroscopy allows atom-level examination of iron and terbium atoms.

Artist’s representation of gene expression in mycorrhizae-colonized roots as obtained by the combination of single-cell and spatial gene expression analyses.

Researchers Use a New Two-Dimensional Analysis to Build a Map of Gene Expression in Plant-Fungi Interactions

Spatial transcriptomics, combined with single-cell expression profiling, reveals new information on plant/arbuscular mycorrhizal interactions.

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Photograph of an optically trapped microparticle in high vacuum. The microparticle is visible as a white dot levitated between two lenses, which are used to focus and collect the invisible infrared laser light used to trap the particle.

Detecting the “Kick” from a Single Nuclear Decay

Color map of the differential conductance as a function of increasing magnetic field (x axis) in niobium deposited on 2D molybdenum ditelluride (MoTe2). The red spikes are oscillations of the MoTe2 edge supercurrent due to magnetic field flux.

Superconductivity Is Unpredictable at the Edge

Shale is physically and chemically complex at all scales of interest. Multimodal, multiscale imaging, and characterization allows researchers to study how to control the transport and reactivity of matter inside complex porous structures such as shale.

Scientists Characterize Shale Cap Rocks at Tiny Scales

For the first time, researchers simultaneously achieved density above a historical empirical limit (>1.0) and very good confinement (~1.5) in a tokamak device.

Ground-Breaking Efforts Overcome an Operational Limit of Tokamaks, Advancing Efforts to Achieve Fusion Energy

Nanocrystals (left) capture light (hv) and then transfer electrons (e-) to nitrogenase enzymes (upper right) to convert dinitrogen (N2) to ammonia (NH3). A sacrificial reaction (bottom right) completes the process.

Powering Enzymes with Light to Make Ammonia

Artist’s depiction of the spray of particles arising from the collision of two heavy atoms. As the hot subatomic soup cools, newly formed particles shower off into space.

Discovery Sheds Light on the Origins of Matter in the Early Universe

Neutrinos of different “flavor” quantum states (shown by colors) are entangled through interactions. In dense neutrino environments like core-collapse supernovae, this leads neutrinos of different flavors to equilibrate to similar energy distributions.

In Neutrinos, Quantum Entanglement Leads to Shared Flavor

False color plot showing the density of the mass in the equatorial (bottom) and meridional, or “southern” (top) planes of a neutron star merger remnant about 100 milliseconds after the merger.

What Happens to the Remains of Neutron Star Mergers?

A boardwalk traversing Stordalen Mire in northern Sweden.

Although Tiny, Peatland Microorganisms Have a Big Impact on Climate

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