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KATRIN Narrows Down the Range of Neutrinos’ Mass A direct search shows that neutrinos are at least a million times lighter than electrons.
Interactions Between X-Rays and Matter Provide Insights into How Electrons Behave in Molecules By measuring the delay between when a molecule absorbs a photon from an X-ray and emits an electron, scientists gained insight into how electrons interact.
When Neutron Stars Collide, Neutrinos Change Flavors Scientists have developed a simulation of the merger of two neutron stars that includes the oscillation of different neutrino flavors into one another.
Uncovering Hidden Atomic Patterns in Semiconductors Advanced microscopy reveals motifs of trace atoms in semiconductors, paving the way for new microelectronics designed atom by atom.

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(Left) Projections of the reconstructed 6D beam distributions. The maps denote beam density in 15 position-momentum combinations and curves in 6 positions (x, y, z) or momenta (px, py, pz). (Right) 3D density map of beam particles in z−y−py space.

Combining Physics and Machine Learning to Analyze Particle Beams in Accelerators

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Pyrocumulonimbus clouds are intense, fire-induced thunderstorms that inject significant amounts of aerosols and gases into the atmosphere.

Modeling Storm Clouds Caused by Extreme Wildfires

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Left: X-ray tomography (XRT) image of a miniature sandstone sample. Right: A diffraction microscopy reconstruction of each grain’s compressive stress magnitude and orientation (portrayed as lines with length proportional to magnitude) during deformation.

Revealing Rock Stresses and Fractures in 3D

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This is a representation of the spin-wave current detected by X-rays. A temperature gradient (blue and red) generates a spin wave current (orange arrows and wave traces) in the yttrium iron garnet sample. X-ray beams hit the sample and scatter back.

Tracing Invisible Spin Currents

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The QUANT-NET research team has designed a two-level control framework for quantum networks. This two-level control framework and scheduler are being deployed and evaluated in the QUANT-NET testbed.

Building a Flexible Control Framework for Quantum Networks

A new control framework enables automated, reliable control of quantum networks, paving the way for practical deployment.

This image shows changes in pressure at the plasma’s outer midplane. It shows how increasing density changes plasma behavior from large potentially damaging instabilities at low density to low-level constant turbulence without bursts at high density.

Protecting Against Large Damaging Energy Bursts in Fusion Energy Devices

Scientists found a potential way to suppress large damaging edge-localized modes, providing an approach to protect future devices.

Researchers tested multiple distillable amine-based solvents to see how they performed in pretreatment processes for biomass. They found butylamine was a superior solvent.

A Standout Solvent for Today’s Biorefineries

Researchers identify butylamine as a promising solution to many challenges at biorefineries.

Researchers engineered E. coli to use formate as a feedstock to achieve fast growth. This could allow manufacturers to use it to produce precursors for biofuels and bioplastics.

Exploring the Potential of a Formate-Based Bioeconomy

Researchers demonstrated an efficient strain of bacteria for bioproduction that grows on the promising feedstock formate.

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The final version of the redesigned drug binds tightly to the main COVID-19 protease, an enzyme the virus needs to multiply. The drug’s structure is effective even against mutated forms that resist other treatments.

Redesigned Hepatitis C Drug Becomes a Powerful New Treatment for COVID-19

The Uncertainty Toolbox provides a suite of evaluation, visualization, and recalibration functionalities for uncertainty quantification.

Uncertainty Toolbox: A Software Toolbox for Quantifying Uncertainty and More

Images showing mice injected with radioactive antimony. Left panel with TREN-CAM shows how the radioactive antimony will be active longer in the treatment areas. The right panel shows that the antimony without TREN-CAM doesn’t stay in the desired areas.

Progress Towards Unlocking Antimony’s Cancer Treatment Potential

Scientists used a new method to create 3D metallic and semiconductor nanostructures. The scale bar represents one micrometer. The graphics show how the researchers combined multiple techniques to layer materials on top of a 3D DNA framework "scaffolding."

Building 3D Nanoscale Structures Through DNA-Assembly and Templating

ORNL’s Frontier supercomputer earned the top ranking on the TOP500 list in June 2022, marking it as the world’s fastest computer at the time with 1.1 exaflops of performance.

Improving Computing Memory Performance for Scientific Discovery

Image of a Wigner crystal captured by a high resolution ultra-low temperature scanning tunneling microscope. The periodic sites (blue) form a triangular structure with each consisting of exactly one electron separated by 40 billionths of a meter.

Visualizing an Elusive Quantum Crystal

Left: Scanning tunnel microscopy image of an atomic layer of bismuth/bismuthene (green) on a tin-selenium substrate (black). The inset shows Weyl fermions’ electronic signature. Right: It shows that bismuthene has robust electrical currents at its edges.

Unusual Massless Particle Discovered in a 2D Material

Cells of the green microalga Auxenochlorella protothecoides expressing a red fluorescent protein. These algae accumulate large quantities of oils stored in lipid droplets.

Not Lost in Translation: Algae Show How to Make Two Proteins from One Messenger RNA

These plates show how genetic modifications affect yeasts’ resistance to oxidative stress. Deleting the genes responsible for building cell walls reduced resistance in one species; adding a gene that encodes a key enzyme improved resistance in another.

Machine Learning Reveals Genes That Help Yeasts Resist Stress

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