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.
June 7, 2022
Fuel-Cell Waste Reduction Goes Platinum
Understanding platinum degradation could reduce waste and lower cost of a promising green technology, hydrogen fuel cells.
June 3, 2022
Fixing Spinal Cord Injuries With ‘Dancing Molecules’
Paralyzed mice “walk” again after new treatment created with the aid of the Advanced Photon Source.
June 1, 2022
How Buildings Contribute to Urban Heating during Heat Waves
A bottom-up approach quantifies the contributions of human-caused heating from building energy use during extreme heat events.
May 31, 2022
How Can Changes to Urban Neighborhoods and Buildings Affect Microclimates and Energy Use?
Computational work uses a Chicago neighborhood to understand and quantify climate effects on building energy use from changes in urban design.
May 25, 2022
Capturing Biogeochemical Details in River Corridor Models
A new way of representing river-groundwater exchanges paves the way for next-generation river network modeling.
May 23, 2022
Not Just Pollen in the Spring: Wild Grass Releases a Variety of Particles into the Air
Researchers find that fungal spores are most abundant during initial growth, while bacteria predominate during flowering and fruit development.
May 18, 2022
Oxygen Formation in the Light of Gamma Beams
Precision measurements on the oxygen formation in stellar helium burning use gamma-beams and a Time Projection Chamber.
May 16, 2022
For Plasma with a Hot Core and Cool Edges, Super H-Mode Shows Promise
Leveraging peeling physics in current tokamaks improves fusion performance and integrates with exhaust solutions for future fusion reactors.
May 13, 2022
Researchers Stick Out Their Necks to Understand How Fusion Plasmas Fuel Up
The novel Lyman-alpha Measurement Apparatus (LLAMA) measures neutral particles in a fusion device and the fueling they provide.
May 11, 2022
Artificial Intelligence Agents Argue to Enhance the Speed of Materials Discovery
Using an ensemble of artificial intelligence (AI) agents enabled faster, more accurate data analysis of synchrotron x-ray data.