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Lighting the Way for Nanotube Innovation
Nanotubes with designed defects allow better performance for next-generation optical telecommunications.
Nanotubes with designed defects allow better performance for next-generation optical telecommunications.
Research points to a way to design efficient quantum algorithms systematically, not by trial and error.
A key reaction in the slow neutron-capture process that forms elements occurs less frequently than previously thought.
Scientists explore the origin of Aluminum-26 in stars with a nuclear reaction that exploits the fact that neutrons and protons are stunningly similar.
Molybdenum Limits Microbes’ Ability to Remove Harmful Nitrate from Soil
Microbial cycling of phosphorus through reduction-oxidation reactions is older and more widespread than expected.
Lipids transfer energy and serve as an inter-kingdom communication tool in leaf-cutter ants’ fungal gardens.
A material with a disordered rock salt structure could help make batteries safer, faster-charging, and able to store more energy
A new data pipeline identifies metabolites following heavy isotope labeling.
New production methods for cerium-134 advance technologies for imaging human disease and guiding treatment.
A high-speed, high-yield recovery approach for At-211 means improved availability of this cancer-treating isotope.
State-of-the-art techniques expand scientists’ fundamental understanding of heavy element 99, Einsteinium.