Each year, scientists with the Office of Science, at our national laboratories, and supported by the Office of Science at the nation’s colleges and universities, publish thousands of research findings in the scientific literature. About 200 of these are selected annually by their respective program areas in the Office of Science as publication highlights of special note.

For the archive of past publication highlights, click here.

May 12, 2023

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Small Fusion Experiment Hits Temperatures Hotter than the Sun’s Core

National laboratory researchers partner with a private company to achieve 100-million-degree temperatures inside a high magnetic field spherical tokamak.

May 10, 2023

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Detecting Neutrinos from Nuclear Reactors with Water

The SNO+ experiment has for the first time shown that neutrinos from a nuclear reactor over 240 km away can be detected with plain water.

May 8, 2023

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Viruses Could Reshuffle the Carbon Cycle in a Warming World

Viruses may have unanticipated consequences for ecosystem responses to climate change

May 5, 2023

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Surprising Preference in Particle Spin Alignment

Spin orientation preference may point to a previously unknown influence of the strong nuclear force—and a way to measure its local fluctuations.

May 3, 2023

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Conformer-Dependent Reactivity of Carbonyl Oxides Leads to Dramatically Different Atmospheric Fates

Researchers find that different conformers of a type of atmospheric molecular intermediates react differently with the pollutant dimethyl amine.

May 1, 2023

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To Track Turbulence in Tokamaks, Researchers Turn to Machine Learning

Machine learning techniques track turbulent blobs in millions of frames of video from tokamak experiments.

April 28, 2023

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Zeroing in on a Fundamental Property of the Proton’s Internal Dynamics

Theory and experiment combine to provide the most precise empirical extraction of the proton’s tensor charge, a fundamental property of the proton.

April 26, 2023

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Predicting Changes in Microbial Food Webs

Temperature and Nutrient Availability Affect Microbial Food Webs in Unexpected Ways

April 24, 2023

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Controlling Materials Properties Through Nanoscale Patterning

By confining the transport of electrons and ions in a patterned thin film, scientists alter the material's properties for next-generation electronics.

April 21, 2023

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Understanding the Origin of Matter with the CUORE Experiment

Physicists use a detector under an Italian mountain to search for rare nuclear processes to explain why our Universe has more matter than antimatter.