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Advanced Techniques Paint a More Accurate Picture of Molecular Geometry in Metal Complexes Ultrafast X-ray scattering and advanced numerical simulations decode distinct molecular structures and their equilibration dynamics in metal-metal complexes.
Advancing Quantum Technology: Tantalum's Impact on Next Generation Qubits Enhancing quantum coherence through innovative materials design in superconducting circuits
Unlocking the Passcodes to Manipulate Natural Bacterial Communities Analysis of bacterial toxin-antitoxin systems sheds new light on how microbes interact with other members of their communities.
“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.

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Representation of the magnitude of the elastic πΣ hadron scattering amplitude showing the double-pole structure that suggests the hadron has a pair of resonances at 1380 megaelectronvolts (MeV) and 1405 MeV, not just one at 1405 MeV.

To Understand a Special Hadron, Researchers Turn to Supercomputers and Quantum Chromodynamics

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Concept of the automated system for remote dissolution of the irradiated bismuth target and astatine recovery in nitric acid media.

Automation of Nuclear Chemistry Processes Leads to More Efficient Production of Astatine for Cancer Therapy

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This sample of niobium has been treated in a process that is typical for preparing particle accelerator components. Tests have revealed how adding oxygen to such components makes them more efficient.

Oxygen Tweaking May Be the Key to Optimizing Particle Accelerators

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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

Scientists demonstrated a new way to produce the superheavy element livermorium (element 116) with titanium-50.

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

A new quantum algorithm speeds up simulations of coupled oscillators dynamics.

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.

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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

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

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) 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

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