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“Louvers” on the SPARC Fusion Device Should Exhaust Gases as Hot as a Star Public researchers partner with a private company to improve simulations key to controlling plasma heat in a fusion energy power plant.
To Understand a Special Hadron, Researchers Turn to Supercomputers and Quantum Chromodynamics Scientists Gain new insights into the nature of the puzzling lambda 1405 hyperon resonance and its controversial partner.
Automation of Nuclear Chemistry Processes Leads to More Efficient Production of Astatine for Cancer Therapy Researchers developed a remotely controlled device for the safe and efficient purification of astatine using liquid phase chemistry.
Oxygen Tweaking May Be the Key to Optimizing Particle Accelerators Modeling the diffusion of oxygen into accelerator cavities allows scientists to tailor their properties.

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Visualization of the evolution of the nuclear size and shape from indium and tin isotopes between the major nuclear shells at N=50 and N=82, where N is the number of neutrons in the nucleus.

Testing the Possible Doubly Magic Nature of Tin-100, Researchers Study the Electromagnetic Properties of Indium Isotopes

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To make element 116, researchers fused isotopes of titanium and plutonium.

New Progress Toward the Discovery of New Elements

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(a) Control scheme used for reinforcement learning (RL). (b) RL control successfully drives plasma through the valley of tearability, avoiding instabilities.

AI Tackles Disruptive Tearing Instability in Fusion Plasma

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The dynamics of coupled oscillators, such as those shown here, can be simulated faster with a new quantum algorithm.

Springing Simulations Forward with Quantum Computing

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Conversion of CO2 to butene via a solar-driven tandem process. First, CO2 is converted to ethylene using an electrochemical reactor and solar-derived electricity. Next, ethylene is converted to butene via thermal catalysis with heat from solar irradiation.

Driving Chemical Transformations Through the Power of Solar Energy

Researchers combine solar energy, electrochemistry, and thermal catalysis to remove the need for fossil fuel-driven chemical conversions.

A long-predicted ultrafast isomerization in the UV photochemistry of bromoform is visualized for the first time by femtosecond time-resolved electron diffraction. At 267 nm excitation, the reaction pathway surpasses direct dissociation by a 60:40 margin.

Bromoform Molecules Like to Rearrange Their Atoms

Ultrafast electron diffraction imaging reveals atomic rearrangements long suspected to be crucial in the photochemistry of bromoform.

Infrared Quantum Ghost Imaging Illuminates—But Doesn’t Disturb—Living Plants

Quantum ghost imaging of live plants at light levels lower than starlight gives new perspectives on plant processes.

Artist’s depiction of a proton’s interior. In quantum chromodynamics, the constituent quarks come in three “colors,” along with up and down “flavors.” Also shown are virtual quark-antiquark pairs and the gluons that bind the quarks together.

New Approach Merges Theoretical Fundamentals with Experimental Studies of the Proton’s Structure

A new approach to applying quantum chromodynamics paves the way for a deeper understanding of the strong nuclear interaction.

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Applying a voltage to lanthanum strontium manganite (LSMO) can cause it to separate into distinct regions with dramatically different magnetic properties, as illustrated by the red and blue colors in the above figure.

Tuning Magnetism With Voltage Opens a New Path to Neuromorphic Circuits

Gravity from mountains on rapidly rotating neutron stars produces ripples in space-time known as gravitational waves. The Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) searches for such waves.

Neutron Star Mountains Would Cause Ripples in Space-Time

Ground-based radio telescopes, gravitational wave detectors, and a space-based X-ray telescope (right) all measure neutron stars (top left, shown merging), lending insight into the pairing of different-colored quarks in dense matter (bottom left).

Neutron Star Measurements Place Limits on Color Superconductivity in Dense Quark Matter

Proposed multijunction electroluminescent cooling system, consisting of multiple semiconductor layers with different band gaps (the energy needed to move an electron so it can conduct electricity).

Cooling with Electroluminescent Semiconductors

(a) Architecture of real-time field control on the DIII-D and KSTAR tokamaks. (b) This real-time 3D control drives plasma to the highest performance state for normalized fusion gain (energy out vs energy in, <em>G</em>) and confinement quality (<em>H</em><sub>89</sub>) without edge bursts.

Controller with Integrated Machine Learning Tweaks Fusion Plasmas in Real Time

Peroxide (OO) forms on CuO by annealing in O<sub>2</sub>, leading to a larger oxygen surface population. Greater oxygen coverage prevents organic species from reacting on the oxygen-rich CuO surface (bottom right) and promotes hydrogen gas decomposition (top right).

Tuning the Catalytic Behavior of Metal Oxides

The Belle II experiment at the SuperKEKB accelerator measures particle interactions with extreme precision. Collisions of electron and positron beams create the high-energy environment needed to produce subatomic particles that do not otherwise exist in nature.

Belle II Detector Produces World’s Most Precise Measurements of Subatomic Particle Lifetimes

Researchers retrieved the time-varying molecular structure of photoexcited o-nitrophenol from ultrafast electron diffraction data using a genetic algorithm

Speedy Nuclei Do the Twist

(a) Fiber spools used for realizing a telescoping suite of fiber connections. (b) entanglement throughput measurements and corresponding capacity estimates by light measurements on a Polatis all-optical switch and at the source and detector.

Scientists Compare Throughput for Quantum vs. Conventional Networks

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