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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.
How and Where Microbes Die in Soil Influences Residues, Organic Matter, and Soil Health Researchers find evidence for durable soil organic matter.
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An artistic rendering of the fast-rotating disk with a copper target, spinning at 30,000 RPM to spatially separate the impacts of the XFEL pulse series.

Developing a System to Make X-ray Free Electron Lasers Even Brighter

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Spatial distribution of daily mean evapotranspiration (ET), transpiration (T), and evaporation (E) values from the new Residual Neural Network Penman–Monteith hybrid model.

Hybrid Modeling Improves Predictions of How Water Moves from Land to Atmosphere

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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

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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

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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.

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.

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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

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

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

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

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

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