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Limiting Fuel Retention by Lithium in Future Fusion Devices A study testing different lithium applications suggests an optimal way to use this material in plasma-facing materials.
Using Machine Learning to Predict Microphysical Properties of Cloud Ice Crystals Researchers developed a framework to extract the properties of ice crystals from 2D images of crystals taken from real clouds.
How Do Trace Gases Affect How Cloud Droplets Form? Real world observations reveal surprises about how droplets form.
Improving How Models Predict Ocean Waves with AI A new approach using machine learning can help computer models simulate waves more accurately in less time.

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Lithium ions (glowing orbs) exhibit liquid-like mobility. This allows them to flow through a vibrating bottleneck (gold triangle) despite the electrolyte maintaining a solid-like state.

Hops and Jumps Help Lithium Ions Flow Faster in a Solid-state Battery Material

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Scientists compared three optimal calibration designs for an absorbance spectroscopy model to a traditional one that requires more time and materials. The study found the optimal models were comparable to both the traditional approach and each other.

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.

Bio-based advanced aviation fuels could help meet the demand for domestically produced aviation fuels.

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

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

Researchers map the variation in materials to the atom level to scale up silicon qubits

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

Scientists have analyzed secondary neutrons at BLIP to enhance production efficiency for critical isotopes.

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Part of the CABBI team. Pictured from left: Professor Vijay Singh, researcher Degaulle Dai, and Professor Yong-Su Jin.

Creating Yeast Strains that Aren’t Picky Eaters

Cover art of the journal Dalton Transactions. It depicts the loading and retention of Cr3+ and La3+ into the alkali metal-substituted alpha-zirconium phosphate.

Nanoplatelets, a Potential Drug Delivery Vehicle for Targeted Cancer Therapy

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

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

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

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X-rays Reveal Why High-Speed Welding Goes Wrong

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

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

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