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Harnessing the Power of Light and Statistics to Improve Handling of Chemicals and Nuclear Material New statistical methods improve spectrophotometric analysis for nuclear and industrial applications.
Creating Yeast Strains that Aren’t Picky Eaters Scientists have engineered yeasts that can simultaneously use different sugars in biomass crops.
An Oil-Accumulating Yeast Could Help Make Next-Generation Aviation Fuels Researchers demonstrated the production of a bio-based jet fuel precursor in a type of yeast
Nanoplatelets, a Potential Drug Delivery Vehicle for Targeted Cancer Therapy Researchers investigated the uptake and retention of targeted radionuclides for cancer therapy

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The Chicago Quantum Computing Testbed at Argonne National Laboratory is the first full-stack, solid-state qubit testbed at a U.S. National Laboratory. Researchers used it to measure industrial-grade qubit wafers and reveal the origin of qubit failure.

Uncovering the Hidden Disorder in Silicon Quantum Computers

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A proton strikes a target nucleus, initiating a nuclear reaction that results in the breakup of the nucleus and the emission of high-energy secondary particles.

Making Every Particle Count: Maximizing Isotope Production for Medicine, National Security, and Beyond

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Scientists designed atomically precise water-soluble nanoclusters to detect dangerous PFAS molecules with a single step. Light is used to activate the nanosensor, allowing fast, remote detection.

Lighting Up PFAS: Rapid Detection with Fluorescent Nanosensors

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An atomically thin layer of a honeycomb-like filter which enables sub-atomic separations of isotopes of hydrogen, protons (H) and deuterons (D).

Creating Atom-Thin Filters that Separate the Smallest Isotopes

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The new sensors, called spectral kernel machines (SKMs) convert optical spectra into diverse environmental knowledge at high speed with low power consumption.

Intelligent Sensors Directly Analyze and Interpret Information in Light

Scientists invented new photodetectors that not only detect but also learn and think based on objects’ optical spectra.

(a-d) Atomic force microscopy (AFM) images of niobium (Nb) based superconducting qubits at (a,c) room temperature and (b,d) cryogenic temperatures. At low temperatures, the “hills” represent the formation of niobium hydrides.

Spotting a New Culprit in the Hunt for Quantum Noise

Microscopes, x-rays, and spectroscopy tools join forces to identify defects that interfere with delicate superconducting qubit properties.

High-speed X-ray radiography of thin plate laser welding and derived scaling laws demarking process windows for welds with and without humping.

X-rays Reveal Why High-Speed Welding Goes Wrong

Scientists used powerful X-rays and computer models to uncover what causes surface defects in laser welds—and how to stop them.

This illustration shows multilayer Laue lenses within the microscope focusing incoming X-rays on the microelectronics sample. It reveals the sample’s internal, nanoscale structure.

One Day's Work in an Hour: A Versatile, Fast-scanning, X-ray Microscope

Innovative, high-resolution X-ray microscopy system generates 3D images 20 times faster than the previous system.

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Journal cover art that illustrates the concept of using microbes to harvest phenolics from trees.

Microbes Turn Hazardous Waste Into Valuable Products

The iBioFAB biofoundry at the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology (IGB) at Illinois.

Artificial Intelligence (AI), Synthetic Biology, and Robotics Combine to Improve Enzymes

An illustrator’s depiction of data gathered from sensors being analyzed by artificially intelligent software.

Filling in the Gaps: AI for Super-Resolution and Diagnostic Recovery

Artist impression of a trapped radioactive vapor decaying into a coherently-beamed stream of neutrinos (symbolized by v).

Physicists Propose a New Kind of Laser That Would Fire Neutrinos

The diagram shows the evolution of a copper surface from metal through OH adsorption to Cu2O and Cu(OH). Modulating the voltage enables the X-ray to reveal the surface chemistry as the reaction occurs.

Accessing Dynamic Electrochemical Interfaces

KATRIN scientists test the system of magnets that control the fields inside the spectrometer.

KATRIN Narrows Down the Range of Neutrinos’ Mass

A 3D view of the energy densities of electron neutrinos, electron anti-neutrinos, heavy-lepton neutrinos and heavy-lepton anti-neutrinos about five milliseconds after neutron stars collide.

When Neutron Stars Collide, Neutrinos Change Flavors

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

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

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